On June 25, the reporter learned from Ezhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Ezhou completed the import and export of 3.48 billion yuan from January to May, showing an increase of 39.6% , thus achieving “double half” one month ahead of schedule. Among them, exports reached 2.18 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 84.7%, ranking first in Hubei Province.
The import volume of Egang Steel Company accounts for as high as 90% of the total import volume of Ezhou. The business system of Ezhou will continue to support state-owned enterprises such as Egang Steel Company to strengthen the supply chain, expand the import supply of iron ore, coal, etc., by effectively hedging against the downward trend of bulk commodity prices to achieve sustained growth in volume. Efforts are made to actively mobilize key enterprises such as San’an Optoelectronics, Nandu New Energy, and Canguang Optoelectronics to achieve the effective reflow of the import and export business.
At the same time, we will actively promote the transformation of airport logistics into data flow and make every effort to expand the scale of our business. We will focus on opening up foreign trade business and guide the import and export operations of China International Trade Group, Zhongjiuyun and other contracted projects. We will strive to add six new enterprises to the Airport-based Economic Zone in the first half of this year, and increase import and export by over 400 million yuan. We will focus on attracting related enterprises, sort out the upstream and downstream of the 41 freight forwarding companies in Ezhou, and strive to introduce 10 freight forwarding related enterprises in the first half of the year through the superposition of support policies such as routes, cargo collection, and foreign trade.
The stable growth of foreign trade is inseparable from the high-quality development of new foreign trade formats and models such as cross-border e-commerce. In the second half of the year, the city's business system plans to transform five freight forwarders such as Zhongshi and Sinotrans into self-operated import and export companies, and urge cross-border e-commerce entities such as Douyin, Dalong.com, and Vipshop to increase imports and exports by 1 billion yuan this year. Relying on the Huahu District of the International Trade Digital Platform, we will promote cost reduction and efficiency improvement throughout the entire process of the port, improve the level of cross-border trade facilitation, and attract more companies to join the platform.