CCTV news: The National Bureau of Statistics today (January 17) released the economic data for the whole year of 2021, in 2021, the national GDP 1143670 billion yuan, calculated at constant prices, an increase of 8.1% over the previous year, an average growth of 5.1% in two years, the national economy continued to recover, and the development target was better completed. It can be said that this report card is quite good. In the face of century-long changes and century-long epidemics, it is not easy for the mainland's economic development and epidemic prevention and control to maintain a global leading position, and the industrial chain supply chain is independent and controllable, safe and stable.
In 2021, if you comb through a keyword of China's economy, I think the word "change" is indispensable. This year, China's economy has to continue to face changes in the epidemic, changes in costs, changes in the market, a variety of changes superimposed together, the biggest impact is the market players. In 2021, it is these large and small market players, facing various sudden changes in the wind and clouds, calmly coping with changes and adapting, showing the strong resilience of China's economy.
Let's take a look at two videos, this is the Yiwu small commodity market in 2019, you can see the bustling and crowded. Looking at the next paragraph, this is the Yiwu small commodity market in 2021, and there are many fewer people. This contrast also highlights the huge impact of the epidemic on the small commodity market.
Below we also have a set of data, in 2019, the total value of Yiwu's foreign trade imports and exports was 296.78 billion yuan, and in 2021, it exceeded 390 billion yuan, but it increased by 31.5% compared with 2019 before the epidemic. There are fewer people, but more people earn, why is this? Let's go to Yiwu Small Commodity Market together to find out.
Zhang Jiying has been working in Yiwu Trade City for more than 20 years, and has become accustomed to the bustle and noise here, never thinking that the Trade City will suddenly be deserted.
Zhang Jiying, operator of Zhejiang Yiwu International Trade City: Guests can't come in, we are actually very anxious in our hearts, we don't know how to be good, and we can't sleep.
Yang Bo, deputy general manager of Yiwu China Commodity City Big Data Co., Ltd.: In order to cope with the impact of the epidemic, operators have taken the initiative to seek changes, and we have also followed the trend and planned to build an online platform for small commodities with digital thinking.
Merchants have begun to learn to live stream goods online, and the trade city has taken the initiative to contact departments such as commerce, customs, foreign exchange, and taxation, set up work classes, non-stop to collect merchant needs, sort out business chains, build a system framework, and connect hundreds of businesses in multiple departments to achieve data sharing. In October 2020, a platform called Chinagoods was officially launched.
Yiwu's 58,000 merchants, 6 million kinds of goods entered the online mall, and there are Chinese, English, Arabic and Spanish versions to choose from, attracting 1.2 million buyers around the world at once, and the past face-to-face business has become an online cross-border video.
Russian businessman: Buy what we want to buy online, so I think it's also very convenient to buy this way.
Iraqi businessman: Chinagoods is a good platform, you can search for a lot of goods on Chinagoods, if we need to search for stores, we can also find them on Chinaagoods.
The change is not simply from offline to online, but also to create a whole industry chain of digital trade.
Yang Bo, deputy general manager of Yiwu China Commodity City Big Data Co., Ltd.: Build a full-scenario, full-link digital market procurement ecosystem, build a digital transaction, digital fulfillment, digital finance, digital supervision of the trade full link of small commodities digital free trade applications, service small and medium-sized micro entities free and convenient participation in international trade, Chinagoods make trade simpler.
The Chinagoods platform also provides export credit insurance and bottom-up compensation protection for every order sold, and cross-border orders completed by the transaction are automatically settled in foreign exchange.
A large number of goods have also moved to the shared cloud warehouse, and the operator clicks "Ship" after receiving the order, and the background can automatically match all the next home such as international logistics, customs declaration agents, and export insurance.
At present, the Chinagoods platform has laid out 68 digital cloud warehouses in 25 cities in China, accumulatively launching 180 international logistics lines, covering 85 countries around the world.
Source: CCTV