Convenient logistics achieves high-quality development of foreign trade.
China's international logistics network is constantly being encrypted and extended. According to the latest data from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, there have been about 180 new freight routes in China since the beginning of this year, of which more than half are European and American routes and Asian routes. As of October, a total of 14,562 China-Europe freight trains have been operated and 157 goods have been sent90,000 TEUs, an increase of 6% and 9% year-on-year respectively. At present, China has signed the first international road transport agreement with 21 countries that jointly build the "Belt and Road", and the cargo capacity of major land ports continues to improve.
Convenient logistics efficiently links the e-commerce market in China and Southeast Asia.
Within 4 days, a batch of small commodity packages will be picked up by Yiwu outlets, declared by China Customs, and transported by air to Manila, and then cleared by Philippine Customs, delivered to the local container center of YTO Express (referred to as YTO) in Manila, and then delivered to customers by YTO staff in Manila.
Prior to this, due to imperfect infrastructure, vague regional divisions, unclear addresses and house numbers, and local consumers were Xi to cash on delivery, Southeast Asian logistics has always had the problem of difficult delivery and low efficiency.
In April 2022, YTO launched its network in the Philippines, with Metro Manila as the center, and has built 1 international container transportation center, 4 provincial container transportation centers, and more than 130 terminal stores, serving major cities and regions in the Philippines, including the capital Manila. At present, the success rate of YTO delivery in the Philippines is more than 98%. In the terminal distribution link, YTO introduced three-wheeled express vehicles, which solved the problems of inconvenient delivery of large parcels caused by poor road conditions and limited motorcycle loading capacity in the past.
In addition to the layout in the Philippines, YTO opened its first Southeast Asian route in 2018, and up to now, it has more than 40 B737 short- and medium-haul transport aircraft capacity, and performs more than 30 flights per week, between China and major cities in Southeast Asia such as Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Manila.
At the YTO booth, cross-border e-commerce customers from Macao, China, container shippers from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, and tire and rubber products manufacturers in urgent need of international first-class chain services came to consult YTO's service content and supporting capabilities in the field of international first-class chain.
For major customers such as international and cross-border e-commerce, and high-end manufacturing, YTO has comprehensively launched a diversified product system including international express delivery, international freight, international chain, air freight, customs affairs, warehousing and distribution, and chain finance. For example, the international ** chain can provide special services such as warehousing, "three-in-one" customs clearance, B2B delivery, and B2C delivery for customers such as consumer electronics, biotechnology, high-end equipment, and new energy materials.
In addition to home-grown Chinese logistics companies such as YTO, FedEx, a foreign-funded logistics company, also facilitates the interconnection between the Chinese market and the global market. Chen Jialiang, senior vice president of FedEx and president of China, recently said that the stable scale of China's foreign affairs is the business opportunity and driving force for the development of international logistics companies in China.
It is understood that at present, FedEx operates more than 300 international flights per week in China, through the Asia-Pacific transshipment center in Guangzhou and the international express and freight center in Shanghai, as well as four international port operation centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and the South China operation center to be established in Guangzhou, connecting Chinese customers with its global network.
At present, SMEs are beginning to occupy an increasing share of FedEx's customer structure. In the process of serving small and medium-sized enterprises, FedEx found that complex customs regulations and customs duties are a major problem for small and medium-sized enterprises in the actual operation of cross-border e-commerce, which affects their competitiveness in the international market. In addition, small and medium-sized enterprises are more sensitive to cost input, and under the increasing demand of consumers for logistics timeliness, small and medium-sized enterprises urgently need efficient, reliable and cost-effective logistics services.
In response to this market change, FedEx has developed a software system that can provide the required documents and calculate the required duties and taxes for shipping to hundreds of countries in real time, simplifying the international delivery process. By analyzing massive location data and customizing maps, FedEx can provide the most optimized local transportation solutions, which greatly reduces the time cost of enterprises.
Chen Jialiang said that the Chain Expo provides a platform for cooperation and exchange between global industrial chains and first-class chain enterprises, including FedEx. With the opportunity of the Chain Expo, FedEx looks forward to working hand in hand with related industries to build a safer, more stable, smooth, efficient, open and shared international chain system, and achieve the development and prosperity of the global economy.
Digital platform to build the road of "buying the world, selling the world".
How does the platform connect domestic and foreign markets through digitalization?
Mailian Group's cloud business ** chain sharing platform has its own opinions. "We urgently need to bridge the information asymmetry in the upstream and downstream links of the industrial chain through transparent sharing of digitalization, and then embark on a path of 'buying and selling globally' in the digital era. Xu Weiqiang, chairman of Zhejiang Mailian Group, said that the greatest significance of digital intelligence is standard, transparency, efficiency improvement, and sharing, and Mailian will establish standard services for all links of the industrial chain through online through digital intelligence, such as market standards, category standards, grade standards, shared brand services, information personalization, etc., and at the same time build offline local infrastructure services, such as brand promotion exhibition halls, overseas warehouses, after-sales service centers, Franchise center, etc., make the global localization of brands and products that jointly go overseas more efficient and more solid, and let the terminal direct mining factory reduce costs and feel more at ease.
A Jordanian businessman successfully linked Zhejiang hardware products with overseas demand through the Mailian cloud business platform. According to reports, the Jordanian businessman, who is very familiar with the demand of the North African hardware market, entered the local demand into the Mailian cloud business platform, formed a platform purchase order, and then sent the online order to the corresponding manufacturer for production through the Mailian Future Factory platform, and implemented quality control in accordance with the certification standards of the exporting country.
It can link overseas merchants and Chinese manufacturers thousands of miles away in a timely and transparent manner, thanks to the digital system sharing of the brain of the pulse chain industry. Through the Mailian cloud business ** chain sharing platform, merchants can quickly locate product information according to different categories, different markets, different levels, and different standards. For merchants, small orders have the best and delivery time of large orders;For manufacturers, the production process has changed from the original manufacturing first and then finding orders to a virtuous circle of first orders and then manufacturing.
Xu Weiqiang said that the innovative operation model of the industrial chain is: open resources, link both ends, promote collaboration, and share the ecology. By solving the pain points of difficult upstream orders and high R&D costs, as well as the pain points of high downstream procurement costs and opaque transactions, Mailian has activated the development momentum at both ends of the platform.
Before cooperating with the Mailian Cloud Business **Chain Sharing Platform, the company's order processing costs were relatively high. Xu Xinchen, assistant general manager of Zhejiang Yusen Bailian Tools, said that on the one hand, offline scattered orders and small orders are complicated;On the other hand, the statistical analysis of order query requires manual viewing manually, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. After cooperating with the Mailian cloud business platform, the company's order processing efficiency has been qualitatively improved, and the cost has been effectively controlled. For example, the process automation function of the Mailian cloud business platform can reduce the cumbersome manual operation steps, which used to take 2 days to go through a process, but now it can be completed in 20 minutes on the mailian cloud business platform, helping enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency in an all-round way.
At present, the Mailian chain has served 447 enterprises in the Zhejiang industrial belt, with a cumulative platform amount of nearly 4 billion yuan.
The global trade service platform built by Sichuan Port and Shipping Investment Group Co., Ltd. also gave the answer. The platform jumps out of the traditional trade development model, around the "1+N" (1 global trade service platform general control center, n business service subsystems) model, the construction and operation of more than 10 provincial-level platforms such as Yungang Wumaotong foreign trade comprehensive service platform, Sichuan geographical indication product service platform, through the "technology + chain finance" way to empower the development of the trade industry, the use of big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other advanced technologies to attract "source enterprises, logistics service providers, financial service providers, professional service providers, government service providers." "Settled in the platform, to provide multi-role with a set of full logistics, foreign exchange settlement and tax refund, risk prevention and control, chain finance equal to one of the comprehensive trade services.
Most of Sichuan's landmark products are food, fruits, liquor, bamboo products, handicrafts, etc., and their export itself requires a number of subdivided needs such as enterprise compliance qualifications, product inspection and quarantine qualifications, compliance customs clearance, and overseas intellectual property protection and rights protection. A konjac noodle factory in Sichuan wants to take advantage of the boom of healthy eating overseas to open up the European market. In this regard, Sichuan Silk Tesco Company, one of the operation teams of the global trade service platform, assisted it in analyzing the target market customer group positioning and product positioning, and the company finally decided to open a store on the European Amazon platform, register overseas brands, cooperate with professional designers to design novel outer packaging, first test goods in small quantities and then container transportation, and provide it with extremely low-cost full-chain services through the way of procurement, which greatly enhances the economic value of konjac noodle exports.
Since its operation, the global trade service platform has served more than 100,000 users, and the platform has become an important carrier for cultivating small and medium-sized entities in cities and states across Sichuan and an important tool for mining the largest stock.
Comprehensive services to enhance business competitiveness.
When the buyer decided to increase the purchase volume, a ** company in Ningbo was worried.
The company has been engaged in the handicraft wholesale industry for 9 years and conducts transactions on credit, but it is difficult to receive more orders due to lack of liquidity. Did the duck that got to the beak let it fly?
Fortunately, a ** company in Ningbo learned about the small and micro export credit insurance policy of PICC property insurance, and handled ** financing in a bank in Zhejiang, thereby accelerating the capital turnover of the enterprise. "Thanks to this policy, it helped us solve the cash flow problem and close a big deal. The person in charge of the enterprise said with emotion.
Export credit insurance is an insurance business that underwrites the loss of accounts receivable suffered by export enterprises in the process of exporting products and services due to the commercial risks of overseas importers and the political risks of the country where they are located. In addition to orders and logistics, insurance, finance, consulting and other services are also indispensable tools to help enterprises "go to sea" to operate stably and the industrial chain to be stable and smooth.
In recent years, PICC P&C has made full use of the advantages of its service network in urban and rural areas, continued to expand the security of the best chain for small, medium and micro enterprises, and vigorously promoted the extension of export credit insurance to a broader grassroots level.
"Market procurement" is one of the six new forms and models of foreign trade supported by the state. In order to solve the problem of "dare not accept orders and are unwilling to accept orders" for merchants in the market procurement pilot market, PICC P&C launched the "Market Procurement Export Credit Insurance" insurance product for the first time in 2020. Over the past three years, it has provided nearly 500 billion yuan of export credit insurance protection for 70,000 market entities in Yiwu International Trade City. In 2023, PICC P&C will exclusively underwrite the provincial-level unified insurance project of export credit insurance for the procurement of the first export credit insurance in the Shandong market, providing nearly 100 billion yuan of risk protection for the operators of the Linyi ** engineering materials market and the Yantai three-station wholesale market.
In the first 10 months of 2023, PICC P&C Export Credit Insurance provided export credit risk protection for more than 20,000 small and micro enterprises in the fields of new forms and models of foreign trade, such as market procurement, cross-border e-commerce, and comprehensive foreign trade service platforms, with an insurance amount of nearly 600 billion yuan.
In addition, PICC P&C is promoting the construction of a digital underwriting platform for credit insurance, improving the ability of risk quantitative analysis, improving the dynamic risk monitoring system, realizing the efficient management of credit risk in the first chain, and providing more diversified risk reduction management tools and value-added services for first-class departments and customers, and gradually building a new business model of "insurance + technology + service" for credit insurance.
PICC P&C made full use of the opportunity of the Chain Expo to establish closer ties with enterprises in all links of the global industrial chain to help Chinese enterprises "stabilize and expand the chain".
Guosen International Engineering Consulting Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Guosen Consulting Group) has become a highlight of the Chain Expo, attracting onlookers from all over the world, industrial parks and enterprises. "Our park is attracting investment, but we lack a more comprehensive understanding of the industries in some areas, can we help us introduce enterprises?Exhibitors sat around the negotiation area and asked the on-site staff of Guoxin Consulting about the site selection and the whole process of project investment services.
In the context of the current era, business competition has essentially evolved into a competition for the comprehensive strength of regional industrial chains and industrial ecology. Li Yibin, general manager of the Industrial Investment Research Center of Guoxin Consulting Group, said that cultivating a first-class chain, industrial chain and its industrial ecology with global competitiveness, vitality and brand appeal has become the common goal of all localities, industrial parks and enterprises on the chain, and it is also the most important factor for local economic development, investment operation and project investment site selection.
In order to help the cultivation and construction of the regional industrial chain, Guoxin Consulting Group relies on its strong professional advantages, resource advantages and experience advantages, focuses on key issues and core elements, and provides full-process systematic industrial chain cultivation services for enterprises, including industrial cultivation services, industrial empowerment services and project site selection services.
*: China ** Daily.