According to data from the Shishi City Commerce Bureau, from January to June this year, Shishi City’s import and export volume was 25.55 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32%. Among them, exports were 24.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.4%, accounting for 25%

According to data from the Shishi City Commerce Bureau, from January to June this year, Shishi City’s import and export volume was 25.55 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32%. Among them, exports were 24.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.4%, accounting for 25% of the total volume of Quanzhou , ranking among the top in Quanzhou. Shishi products are exported to 182 countries and regions around the world.

Shishi enterprises docked with customers at the 2022 Quanzhou Foreign Trade Supply and Procurement Matchmaking Conference

Since this year, Shishi City has focused on building a modern commercial and trade capital, coordinating and promoting epidemic prevention and control and foreign trade development, and continuing to deepen the comprehensive reform of foreign trade. Shishi City Commerce Bureau and other relevant authorities have taken multiple measures to promote the recovery of foreign trade import and export. Unleash potential and effectively expand the space for foreign trade development. The city's foreign trade exports are stable and improving, and exports in new formats such as traditional general trade and market procurement are showing a stable and improving trend under the background of the epidemic. Seizing the opportunity of RCEP coming into effect, we held 26 online and offline policy briefings to help companies master RCEP zero tariff and origin accumulation principles and other policies, and successively issued the first RCEP origin certificates for Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia within Quanzhou’s jurisdiction. The certificate has stabilized the export of ASEAN , Shishi City's largest trading partner, and expanded diversified markets.

In the context of epidemic prevention and control, Shishi’s commercial department has promoted policy cloud training, foreign trade cloud exhibitions, and cross-border overseas expansion, opened up new channels for economic and trade exchanges and cooperation, and developed and expanded new business formats and models. The Shishi Municipal Commerce Bureau actively organizes companies to participate in 18 online and offline exhibitions including the Fujian Foreign Trade Cloud Exhibition, Quanzhou Foreign Trade Cloud Exhibition, Canton Fair , and cross-trade fairs. Planned the "Little Shishi Big World" cross-border overseas activities, and successively held the China-Africa Youth Cross-border E-commerce Conference, the 2022 Shishi Brand Overseas Cloud Summit (online) and a series of themed events in China (Shishi) E-commerce Valley Cross-border Activity Week , promoting two-way docking between local enterprises and sellers and target markets on platforms such as SHEIN and TIKTOK. Guide the development of cross-border e-commerce operation incubation and help enterprises expand sales channels.

Build a government-bank-enterprise community

Carry out regular financing needs docking

The country's first exchange rate hedging "public margin pool" model, and accelerate the promotion of innovative foreign trade financial products such as "credit enhancement credit loans" and "export tax refund loans". It was the first to launch the innovation of offshore settlement foreign exchange collection under the new foreign trade format, and the green channel for cross-border collection volume verification. Strengthen credit insurance support, increase the proportion and coverage of export credit insurance subsidies, increase the proportion of export credit insurance subsidies for non-unified insurance companies in our city from 20% to 30%, strengthen foreign trade risk response, and benefit 190 companies in the jurisdiction. Promote "foreign trade loans" to inject financial vitality into the development of foreign trade and effectively solve the problem of difficult and expensive financing for foreign trade enterprises.

In addition, Shishi City has expanded the promotion of market procurement across the province to enhance the agglomeration effect of market procurement pilots. Make full use of the "market procurement + cross-border e-commerce" market model and accelerate the operation of the "Qiao Yibang" cross-border e-commerce platform, with 1,536 brand manufacturers settled in, 73,700 product links, and a total of 1.104 million SKU (stock keeping units) indivual. Standardize the construction of the price system library, further optimize the export process of pre-packaged food , promote Qingliu County specialty food (settled in Shishi) to open overseas markets for the first time, and continue to organize online docking with Southeast Asian purchasers who intend to "return orders" to expand the procurement scale .

Reporter Yang Chaolou Correspondent Huang Hongmei