Ningbo, Zhejiang: Transformation And Transformation, Win By "Wisdom", Export And Export Exceed 100 Billion

On the afternoon of December 31, 2013, Ningbo Before the Customs was assigned to the Daxie customs office computer, Zhu Jingjing, the cancellation clerk, pressed the last verification key of the year: the total import and export volume was more than 100 billion 330 million US dollars, an increase of 3.9% over the same period last year. At that moment, Ningbo's total foreign trade exceeded 100 billion US dollars, and Ningbo formally became a member of China's foreign trade 100 billion club.

The brilliant report card is so enviable that we can not help but explore the real secret of opening up a strong foreign trade in Ningbo against the backdrop of global economic instability and Global trade weakness.

Transformation and change to win by "wisdom"

How to break hundreds of billions of goals, and enterprises have the most say in Ningbo. "In May 2012, we introduced Japanese consultants to RMB 600 thousand yuan per year to enrich our R & D team." Fan Zaiming, manager of Management Department of Ningbo Ford fitness equipment Co., Ltd. said, "we set up R & D center with many advanced technologies. The introduction of high talents not only does not occupy the cost, but also brings us dozens of returns. As of November 2013, the company's export sales increased by 165% compared with the same period a year earlier.

Wang Xuekun, deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the Ministry of Commerce, said that independent innovation is indeed a "killer weapon" for Ningbo to enter the 100 billion club of foreign trade.

For this reason, Ningbo BEIFA group, which started from foreign trade, has a more profound feeling. Qiu Zhiming, chairman of the company, clearly remembered that when he first participated in the Canton Fair in April 1993, the company staff carried a box of ballpoint pens in simple wooden boxes, and "stall" at the staircase of the exhibition hall. "The first foreign trade order was only $20 thousand.

Today, BEIFA group has become China's largest and third largest pen maker in the world. "The eighteen major electoral pens of the CPC are designed and manufactured by us." Qiu Zhiming proudly said, "this has all benefited from the transformation and transformation after the establishment of the R & D center in 1999. It can be said that the policy led BEIFA to the road of" wisdom "early. At the same time, BEIFA also used the experience of its own development to practice the correctness of the transformation and upgrading of this foreign trade development path.

Data show that under the government's advocacy and first aid enterprise demonstration, at present, many foreign trade enterprises in Ningbo have set up R & D design centers, and have set up 64 public service platforms for R & D and certification. The added value of Ningbo's foreign trade products has greatly increased, and the competitiveness of the international market has increased significantly.

With the deepening of the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade, Ningbo's export products and market structure have been steadily optimized. Customs statistics show that in the first 11 months of 2013, clothing , Spin , plastic products, lamps and lanterns, furniture, shoes The total export of seven categories of consumer goods such as category, luggage and bags increased by 9.7% over the same period last year, and the export of mechanical and electrical products such as auto parts and bearings increased by 2.5%. In the second half of last year, more than 10 thousand Geely cars in Meishan port were exported to the Middle East and Eastern Europe. {page_break}

Foreign trade environment gathering firewood

　　 foreign trade Run fast, all depend on the "headband", the "headstock" here includes the many factors such as policy and system to escort. In recent years, Ningbo has continuously optimized facilitation of customs, commodity inspection, foreign exchange and other departments. All of them have helped to boost Ningbo's foreign trade by breaking the $100 billion mark.

On the customs side, the paperless reform started at the end of 2012, which brought great convenience to foreign trade enterprises. "Move your fingers and push the key to customs clearance!" Zhou Yuanyuan, a customs broker of Ningbo port logistics company, described paperless customs clearance. In December 25th, the BEIFA group Limited by Share Ltd declared to the customs that one vote of plastic raw materials from Taiwan. Xiao Zhou landed on the "electronic port pre entry system". Unlike usual, she chose the "no paper mode of customs clearance". After she uploaded the scanned document on the attached document bar, she pressed the "send" button. 3 minutes later, the system showed that the ticket list was released.

In addition, as the second city in the country to carry out the operation of cross-border trade e-commerce, Ningbo has been running the pilot for one month. The Customs has examined the declaration form and 2375 votes. 1441 consumers nationwide took the lead in tasting "Ningbo version" Hai Tao.

In terms of commodity inspection, at present, Ningbo has changed into "multiple, multiple, multiple batches" declarations as a declaration, and has changed the "classified, classified and batches" inspection into a "one stop customs clearance" Ningbo mode. Recently, after the sharp lowering of the inspection and quarantine fees, it has also shared a lot of "cost worries" for foreign trade enterprises.

Since January 1st last year, the Ningbo inspection and Quarantine Bureau, in accordance with the requirements of relevant state departments, has continued to implement the export and farm products, small and micro enterprises and other relief policies, and has comprehensively lowered the entry and exit inspection and quarantine fees. "The original food inspection fee and quality inspection fee accumulated 2/1000 points seven, now only zero point eight of the thousand, a year to save a lot of money." Xiao Wang, an inspection officer of Ningbo Wang Long group, said excitedly.

The Ningbo branch of the foreign exchange bureau has introduced 15 measures to increase the support for foreign trade imports from four aspects: improving import trade facilitation, strengthening financial support for import trade, promoting the construction of import trading platform and developing regional foreign exchange market.

What is particularly striking is that in May last year, Ningbo became the only region in the country to carry out pilot projects for non related external guarantees. After the pilot, Ningbo exporters can use their own credit to provide guarantees to overseas importers to help importers obtain domestic bank financing. In August 6, 2013, the Ningbo branch of the foreign exchange bureau helped the cistar Limited by Share Ltd complete the first contract signing of the buyer's credit business under non related guarantee.

According to the chief executive of Cixing, the total export contract was 7 million 750 thousand dollars, and the Indonesian customer paid 2 million 750 thousand dollars. The remaining amount was provided by 5 million yuan joint liability guarantee for the Indonesian customers. The Cixi branch of Bank of China provided a 3 year period of 5 million dollars for export buyer's credit.