"Uncle" Changed The Electricity Trade Between China And Russia

"Profiteer" is a memory of the times. In the tide of Russian market economic change, "profiteers" enriched the market but couldn't get rid of the fake and "gray customs clearance" problem. They became the people who love and hate Russia.

From the beginning of 2000, the decline of the "Eze Mei Luo Fu market" in 2008, the "grandfather" withdrew from the historical stage with the new changes in the Sino Russian commodity trading environment.

How did China and Russia trade in commodities without "Grandpa"? Many people chose to leave, and many of them turned to Russian businessmen. With the advent of new Internet technologies, a brand new way is booming.

2008 to 2009: farewell, "Grandpa!"

"I want to go to Russia, please don't stop me, of course, you will not stop me, really, I want to go to Russia to find my dream......"

This dialogue is from the movie "kissing Russia" filmed by the Beijing film studio in 1993. Feng Gong's hero, "big river", tells the inner monologue at the beginning.

The "big river", which has just experienced marriage twists and turns, is going to Russia to become a "grandfather".

It is reported that this is almost the first and last movie about "Grandpa" in China. It has been over 20 years.

Now, "Grandpa" has become a legend.

"The money was too good at that time to make money."

He once worked as a "grandfather" and is now opening near the Beijing Temple of Heaven Park.

Zhang Chen, a businessman in Wenzhou, recalled that he used to come to Russia to pursue his dream.

At that time, the price of a shirt sold to Moscow could be doubled ten times.

Zhang Chen used to rent a booth in the Cheel Guizo Wo market, which is also known as the "market of the Eze Mei Lv". Because of the homophonic relation of Russian pronunciation, it is nicknamed "an ant" market in the Russian Chinese circle.

"An ant is so famous in the Chinese circle," Zhang Chen recalls. He can have a stable business environment there, and he is surrounded by Chinese people who will not feel lonely. He can buy Chinese tofu and even read Chinese newspapers here.

But all this changed in September 11, 2008.

The investigation committee of the Russian general procuratorate suddenly took coercive action on the market, seized about 6000 containers, weighed about 100 thousand tons, and the total value of goods was about 2 billion dollars.

From 2008 to 2009,

In the light of the "gray customs clearance" incident brought about by "Grandpa", a large-scale centralized renovation was carried out. In July 2009, an ant was permanently closed.

The seizure of an ant is considered to be a landmark event. Since then, those legendary "Uncle" have begun to leave Russia gradually, including the search for legendary Zhang Chen.

After the market closed, Zhang Chen tried to continue his trade with Russia, but he found that the way before was not feasible.

"Later, when the financial crisis came, the dollar depreciated.

The dollar we earn will get less and less RMB in China.

China's labor costs are getting higher and higher, so we can't do the gray customs clearance. Our price advantage is gone.

Dispelled the idea of going to Russia again, Zhang Chen will also contact Russian customers, so he has not completely left the clothing business.

Later, he learned that China's "profiteer" engaged in 20 years of "gray customs clearance" international trade, has gradually disappeared.

Now, there are new businesses invested by Chinese businessmen in Russia.

For example, the Greenwood International Trade Center on the outskirts of Moscow, Sino Russian international trade is more standardized and efficient.

After joining the International Trade Organization in December 2011, Russia is more strict in organizing economic and trade activities in accordance with international practices and market mechanisms. The customs clearance rate of Russian customs will accelerate, and the efficiency of China's cargo clearance will naturally increase.

Moreover, after joining the WTO, Russia began to fulfill its commitments to lower import tariff rates. This will prompt Chinese and Russian enterprises to adopt formal customs clearance channels, and do not need to rely on "gray customs clearance" to reduce costs.

From 2010 to 2013: take the road of "white customs clearance"

"In Russia, Chinese businessmen can no longer walk the old way of" grey customs clearance "! In 2009, a Chinese businessman who lost nearly 4 million dollars in an ant said painfully.

That year, Chinese businessmen realized that "if we want to completely throw away the hat of" profiteer ", there is only one way to go. That is to go the way of" white customs clearance ".

Reporters reported that after 2009, how exactly should China's commodities be sold in Russia? The official answers of both China and Russia are basically the same, that is, they should be legal, identity, registration, customs clearance and tax avoidance.

Lao Wang and his wife from Heilongjiang are successful cases.

Lao Wang had been in the big market for more than 10 years, selling clothes and shoes, selling porcelain and handicrafts, but not earning much oil and water.

Until later, because of a chance to do stone cutting tool business, they soon bid farewell to the circle of big markets, began to register companies, acted on the products of many Chinese enterprises, hired Russians to contact customers, and over the past few years, business became more and more smoothly.

Lao Wang said, "I don't need to do grey customs clearance.

My product has its own price advantage, and there is still profit in normal customs clearance. Russian customers also see the cost performance of our products.

Follow the normal procedures and be practical.

Speaking of the current market of Liu Bu lino, Lao Wang said: "relying on customs customs, relying on low prices and relying on Baotuan management is not going to go far.

The Russian market is very large. There is still a lot of opportunities for the big market to get rid of the Chinese people.

Businessmen who do not understand Russian, cannot integrate into the local society, and are not sure about the prospects of trade are sure to be eliminated. "

Sino Russian relations have been developing rapidly in recent years, and their mutual interests, economic dependence and cultural exchanges are constantly deepening.

In 2013, China became Russia's largest trading partner.

With the rapid increase of trade volume, the trade structure of the two countries has also changed.

In 2005, China accounted for 55.52% of its exports to Russia, clothing, light textile materials and products and footwear, and only 32.29% of electromechanical and hi-tech products.

But in 2012, the proportion of China's exports of electromechanical and high-tech products to Russia increased to 65.36%, while clothing, light textile materials and products and footwear dropped to 23.65%.

"It is not difficult to see that the" big market "trade pattern with clothing and footwear as commodities has lagged behind the pace of trade development between the two countries.

An unnamed Chinese trade official analyzed.

He said that with the normalization of trade between China and Russia and the gradual integration of Russia into the world trade organization system, the way of getting together, low-end access and grey customs will gradually shrink in the past.

If Russian businessmen want to break through and surpass their previous business models, they will still have bright prospects in the Russian market.

2014: the electricity supplier is on the stage.

In fact, in 2009, in Moscow, which closed the big market in Moscow, some people began to think of extending the increasingly hot electric business model from China to the northern frontier.

In the new era of more standardized Russia's economic and trade environment, lower international logistics costs and continuous growth of Internet information exchange, Russian electricity providers are gradually covering more and more Chinese commodity trading businesses.

According to reports, at the seminar on Sino Russian economic and trade information service held in Suifenhe in December 2009, the mayor of Suifenhe, Fu Yancheng, introduced the relevant situation of the Sino Russian e-commerce platform in Suifenhe.

The idea of border trade digitalization has attracted wide attention and expanded rapidly in the following years.

The Northeast China province then accelerated the process of the establishment of the electricity supplier. In 2012, the Harbin economic and Technological Development Zone was approved by the Ministry of Commerce as one of the first 34 national e-commerce demonstration bases in China, and the "Heilongjiang international e-commerce application platform" was launched.

In 2013, the Sino Russian cross border e-commerce forum was first added to the Kazakhstan fair.

In June 2014, the 2014 Sino Russian cross border e-commerce cooperation conference was held, and the Sino Russian authorities opened a dialogue to solve the problem of electricity supplier docking.

At the same time, Zhejiang, the fastest growing electricity supplier in China, has joined the ranks of the Russian market, and many Yiwu companies are eyeing it.

The world Internet Conference held in Wuzhen in 2014 also set up a special discussion session on the topic of Russian electricity providers. Zhejiang hopes to win more Russian market share on the basis of its strong manufacturing base.

It is reported that Yiwu's annual business volume is growing at a speed of doubling, especially in Russia.

Therefore, despite half the volume of pactions in December last year, he is still optimistic about the prospects of Russia's electricity supplier.

From 2010 to 2013, the Russian electricity supplier went ahead in its exploration, and gradually established cargo pportation, entry and exit, storage, courier and other systems. By 2014, the Russian electricity supplier was more frequently observed in the industry observation level and gradually stepped onto the mainstream platform.

In the future, whether or not the electricity supplier can replace the traditional mode of Sino Russian merchandise trade has achieved another "Legend of Grandpa".