Going out, bringing in, and strengthening the platform, Hunan strives to build a highland for reform and opening up in the inland regionOut of the "lake" to the sea and break the wavesAt 12 o'clock on December 15, the 130-meter-long, 6,500-ton international voyage ship "Xinao Yuanjian" slowly left Yueyang Chenglingji Xingang Container Terminal and headed for its destination. This is the largest foreign trade vessel entering and leaving Chenglingji Port since the Yangtze River entered the dry period this year.
In the cold winter season, Chenglingji Port is still busy, and corn from Brazil and iron ore from South Africa enter the Yangtze River from the seaFireworks from Hunan and ceramics from Jiangxi set sail overseas. Two months ago, on October 28, the container throughput of Chenglingji Port has exceeded one million TEUs, reaching the total level of 2022 64 days ahead of schedule, and by the end of 2023, the target of 1.2 million TEUs set at the beginning of the year will be successfully completed.
The busy Chenglingji during the dry season reflects the fiery practice of Hunan based on the geographical advantages of "One Belt and One Road", facing challenges and breaking waves under the complex and changeable economic background, and striving to build a highland of reform and opening up in the inland region.
The five major international channels "clenched their fingers into a fist", and the quality of import and export structure was optimized and improvedThe resilience of the external world is highlighted"Let's go!On December 26, the first Hunan Loudi-Huaihua-China (Guo) Lao (Laos) train departed from Loudi East Railway Station, loaded with rubber products and agricultural equipment, and sailed to Laos and other ASEAN countries after being assembled in Huaihua International Dry Port. Just half a month ago, on December 12, the first "Hunan-Yunnan-Lancang-Mekong Line" Huaihua-Kunming-Vientiane International Freight Connecting Train also whistled and shipped from Huaihua International Inland Port West Freight Yard. The "first" international trains were sent out one after another, and Tang Youru, chairman of Hunan Yousu International, couldn't sit still. He is eager to do a big job, develop the cassava processing industry in Huaihua, and build a national cassava starch distribution center. Tang Youru has been in the international logistics business for more than 20 years, and in his office, a "panoramic map of the Belt and Road" is placed in the most eye-catching position. He pointed to Hunan Province on the map and said that although Hunan is in the middle, there are many "sea" passages, and the future is blue. The international channel has shortened the distance between inland Hunan and the border and the ocean, "southeast and northwest" and "flying in the sky", and the five major international channels in Hunan have "clenched their fingers into a fist". To the east, Yueyang Chenglingji Port to Nanjing, Taicang, Shanghai direct route to achieve eastward sea, this year added Yueyang to Vladivostok international direct route navigation, has the first real sense of the international route. To the west, Huaihua connects the China-Laos Railway and connects with ASEAN, and the Huaihua-ASEAN train ran a total of 402 trains in the first 11 months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 217%, and the distance between Hunan and ASEAN, the largest partner, has been greatly shortened. To the south, special trains for automobiles, ceramics and steel have been sent out from the industrial town of Zhuzhou, and Hunan and Guangdong non-rail-sea intermodal transport has reached the African continent, with a total of 577 trains in the first 11 months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 149%. To the north, the Hunan China-Europe Railway Express has run more than 1,000 trains for three consecutive years, entering the first phalanx in the countryThe proportion of China-Europe Express (Changsha) enterprises in the province has steadily increased, and the proportion of local export containers has reached 54%. Upward, starting from Changsha Airport, it can reach 160 cities at home and abroad within 4 hours, and Changsha Air Port has resumed 17 international (regional) passenger routes, and a total of 7 all-cargo routes have been flown in total. The international channel has been expanding, Hunan has accelerated the pace of opening up, and foreign trade import and export have moved forward steadily. "Hunan's foreign trade is gradually moving from a stage of rapid growth under a low base to a new journey of high-quality development under a certain scale. Shen Yumou, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Provincial Department of Commerce, said. In 2023, in the face of the increasingly complex and severe international situation and the "painful period" of structural changes in the growth momentum of the province's foreign trade, Hunan will stabilize the fundamentals of foreign trade and promote the continuous optimization and improvement of the quality of the import and export structure. Since the beginning of this year, the Provincial Department of Commerce has comprehensively visited and served to solve the difficult demands of production-oriented export enterprises, solved more than 400 problems, and issued policy documents such as "Several Policies and Measures for Promoting the Stable Scale and Optimal Structure of Foreign Trade in Hunan Province" and "Service Guarantee Mechanism for Key Foreign Trade Enterprises in Hunan Province". According to the data, in the first 11 months, the exports of construction machinery, rail transit equipment and aerospace equipment in Hunan maintained double-digit rapid growthHunan solar cells, lithium batteries, and electric manned vehicles "new three" products sell well overseas. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative, and more and more Hunan enterprises are setting their sights on emerging markets such as Central Asia and the Middle East. In the first 11 months, Hunan imported and exported 2936 to the "Belt and Road" countries800 million yuan, accounting for more than half of the province's total foreign trade value in the same period. Hunan's presence in emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, and Saudi Arabia is expanding. The "Top 500 in Three Categories" voted for confidence, and Hunan businessmen "returned" one after anotherThe "magnetic force" of investment attraction is strong"We mainly do processing, and we want to open up the domestic ......market next yearOn December 23, at the supply and demand docking activity of foreign-invested enterprises in Hunan Province, Wang Chunlai, the administrative director of Hunan Taisong casing food, put forward an appeal. "Cooperate with CP!As many casings come, we want. As soon as Wang Chunlai's voice fell, Deng Hongcheng, senior president of CP Group in Hunan, immediately responded. A preliminary intention was reached for a cooperation, and the two foreign-funded enterprises found new business opportunities in Hunan. Such scenes are not uncommon in Hunan. From October 12th to 15th, the "2023 Hunan Tour of Multinational Corporations" was held, and 79 multinational companies and more than 120 entrepreneurs were invited to Hunan to bring a number of new investment plans. This is the largest concentration of senior executives of multinational companies in Hunan in recent years, and it is also the first large-scale event held in Hunan to attract foreign investment. Since the beginning of this year, Hunan has aimed at the "top 500 in three categories", increased its efforts to attract investment, held investment promotion activities such as the "European Trade Fair" and the Hunan tour of multinational companies, and made every effort to introduce key foreign-funded projects such as Stellantis, Yum, Perennial and Topgolf. "It is better to have a meeting and ask for leave, than to let entrepreneurs run empty", "Enterprises are in difficulty, and the Provincial Department of Commerce has a green channel for special reporting" ......Since the beginning of this year, Hunan has issued a work plan to promote the expansion and upgrading of enterprises and precise investment promotion of the industrial chain, and introduced a special rectification work plan for the chaos of investment promotion in the province. Two-way running, "Hunan" grows together. In the first 10 months, the province signed contracts for 131 "three types of top 500" enterprises to invest in 302 projects, including 64 of the world's top 500 enterprises investment projects and 190, including R&D headquarters, R&D centers and other large-scale high-quality projects. The "Top 500 Enterprises in Three Categories" voted for Hunan, and Hunan businessmen also "returned home" one after another under the sincere invitation of "making the majority of Hunan businessmen more popular in Hunan". In 2023, Hunan will hold important meetings such as the symposium on private entrepreneurs and the symposium on the return of Hunan businessmen, and will also move the venues of the symposium to Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen, and enter the Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. "Even if there is a first month in another country, it is not as good as a light in my hometown." Hunan businessmen have become an important force worthy of dependence and indispensable for the development of Hunan. In the first 10 months of this year, 1,117 newly registered enterprises returned to Hunan businessmen in the province, and the cumulative amount of funds in place for Hunan businessmen's investment projects in Hunan was 4,715400 million yuan, a year-on-year increase. 2%。On December 16, Wondershare Technology (Changsha) Creative Science Park started construction, with a planned investment of nearly 1 billion yuan, and Wondershare Technology set a new milestone in the development of Hunan Province. "We firmly believe that the choice to return to Hunan was the right one, and we are enjoying the dividends brought by this choice. Wu Taibing, a Hunan entrepreneur and chairman of Wanxing Technology, said. We should be the pioneers of economic and trade cooperation with Africa, and plant a good "experimental field" for reform and opening upOpen platform to unleash kinetic energyIn December, Madagascar is in the rainy season, and the sheep are fed all day long on the slopes of Qiluanumandidi, in the western part of the island. These sheep are going to China. David is the head of a local farmers' cooperative, and the sheep belong to the Zhongma Animal Husbandry Company set up by Hunan enterprise Yuan's Seed Industry in Madagascar. "We are building a standard plant in the capital Antananarivo, which is expected to be completed in February next year, and it is expected that Madagascar lamb will be officially imported in April next year. Li Yanping, deputy general manager of Yuan's Madagascar Agricultural Development, said that at the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo held in Hunan in June this year, the quarantine protocol for the export of Madagascar mutton to China was officially signed. The China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, which has been settled in Hunan for a long time, is becoming a high-level and high-level open platform in the field of China-Africa economic and trade cooperation, promoting China-Africa economic and trade cooperation projects and promoting China-Africa economic and trade cooperation to a new level. From June 29 to July 2 this year, the 3rd China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo was held in Changsha, resuming the "face-to-face" exchange and dialogue between China and Africa. More than 1,000 representatives from all walks of life from 68 countries and regions attended the opening ceremony, and the exhibitors, exhibits and cooperation achievements were the highest in the history. During the Expo, the Consulate General of the Republic of Malawi in Changsha, the first consulate general of an African country in Hunan, was officially opened, bringing new opportunities for exchanges and cooperation between Hunan and Africa. Hunan is becoming one of the most active provinces in the country in economic and trade cooperation with Africa, with an average annual growth rate of 31 in the past three years6%, the scale of the 8th in the country and the 1st in the central and western regions. This year, 14 cities and prefectures in Hunan formed their own economic and trade delegations to 28 African countries to carry out business invitations and exhibitions and economic and trade docking work, and set up a normalized economic and trade contact mechanism between Hunan and Africa. As one of the three characteristic strategic positioning of the Hunan Pilot Free Trade Zone, the construction of the China-Africa Economic and Trade In-depth Cooperation Pilot Zone has been comprehensively promoted: promoting the solution of the problem of access to African agricultural products, creating a China-Africa cross-border RMB center, establishing a China-Africa economic and trade high-end think tank alliance, and cultivating ...... for African commercial legal talentsIn 119In the 76 square kilometers of reform and opening up "experimental field", the Hunan Pilot Free Trade Zone has explored and formed 39 national first-of-its-kind institutional innovation achievements. Recently, there is more good news: the innovative case of "Hunan, Guangdong and Hong Kong 'cross-border one lock' fast customs clearance mode" has been recommended by the special issue of the briefing of the inter-ministerial joint meeting on the work of the free pilot zone. So far, in 2023, 7 achievements and practices of the Hunan Pilot Free Trade Zone will be replicated, promoted and promoted across the country. At present, Hunan has set up 3 national first-class ports, 5 comprehensive bonded zones, 2 bonded logistics centers, and 13 designated commodity inspection site qualifications. Various open platforms continue to release momentum, winning more opportunities for Hunan to build a highland for reform and opening up in inland areas. 
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Reporter |Zhou Yuegui Huang Tingting.
Editor丨Zhang Yongqiong.
First instance丨Li Xufeng.
Second trial丨Liu Ying, third trial丨Huang Xiaohui