On the afternoon of January 20th, XTransfer's second National Foreign Trade New Year's Eve speech was successfully held in Shanghai with the theme of "Farewell to the Changeable 2021, Running to a Beautiful 2022", and the event was specially invited to deliver a speech by Fan Jie, Secretary of the Party Group of the Yangpu District Committee of Commerce of Shanghai, Yu Danqiu, Deputy Director of the Yangpu District Committee of Commerce, Ma Hongman, Doctor of Economics, Hu Jing, the overall champion of the 2021 XTransfer Treasure Foreign Traders Shenzhen Sharing Competition, and XTransfer Founder and CEO Deng Guobiao delivered a wonderful speech. The event invited Shanghai foreign traders to attend the scene, and the online live broadcast attracted tens of thousands of viewers to participate interactively.
In 2021, in the face of the severe impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, as well as the impact of complex external factors such as rising raw material costs, poor shipping, and rmb appreciation, China's foreign trade enterprises still handed over eye-catching report cards. According to customs statistics, in 2021, the total import and export value of the mainland's trade in goods was 39.1 trillion yuan, of which exports were 21.73 trillion yuan, an increase of 21.2% year-on-year.
At the beginning of the event, Fan Jie, Secretary of the Party Group of the Yangpu District Commission of Commerce, delivered a speech, he said: "XTransfer and the Yangpu District Government are serving the customers of small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, and have the same innovation genes. Together, the district enterprises will jointly exert their respective strengths to contribute to the foreign trade undertakings of small and medium-sized enterprises. ”
Serving more than 200,000 small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, "customer first" is XTransfer's eternal creed
XTransfer founder and CEO Deng Guobiao shared his entrepreneurial story in 2021. He said that in the past year, the global international trade pattern has ushered in unprecedented changes, and foreign trade entrepreneurs are facing many challenges. In addition to exerting optimism, foreign traders should deeply see the essence of their own entrepreneurship - connecting the world, and playing professional and diligent in it, so that each connection can convey the greatest value.
Deng Guobiao said that XTransfer is to find gaps and cracks in the continuous connection with the market, and build long-term value on this basis. For example, it is precisely because of the discovery of the lack of traditional financial institutions in serving small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, which has become an opportunity and motivation for XTransfer to further serve small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises. At the event site, Deng Guobiao officially announced that the number of XTransfer service customers will grow rapidly in 2021, and there are currently more than 200,000 small and medium-sized micro foreign trade enterprises.
It is XTransfer's original intention to provide digital financial services for the majority of small, medium, and micro foreign trade enterprises, and to help them enjoy digital financial services equivalent to multinational groups. At present, XTransfer is giving full play to its advantages in the digital level, actively exploring the international market, and providing efficient and high-quality services for global small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises.
Foreign Trade 2022: From the Beauty of Form to the Beauty of Substance
Ma Hongman, Doctor of Economics, was invited to attend the event and delivered a speech looking forward to the trend of foreign trade in 2022. He said that the "epidemic prevention dividend" has pushed China's manufacturing against the trend, and boldly speculated that cross-border e-commerce exports are expected to maintain a growth rate of 30% in the next five years. The new generation of Chinese entrepreneurs is not satisfied with "starting from the OEM and slowly upgrading", but from the beginning to "seize the high-end of the brand" to cut into the international mainstream. This phenomenon can be seen in the data on the total number of trademarks filed: in 2016, the total number of Chinese companies filing US trademarks was less than 30,000, and in 2021, this number reached 230,000.
Dr. Ma Hongman made a prediction on the foreign trade situation in 2022. He said that the export structure will be optimized and upgraded, and it is still possible to maintain the single-digit growth of exports in 2022. In 2022, the influencing factors of the RMB exchange rate are still complex and changeable, and foreign trade enterprises need to make plans for the problems caused by the fluctuation of the RMB exchange rate. At the same time, the biggest highlight of the foreign trade industry in 2022 is the RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement), which has the largest population, the largest economic and trade scale and the most development potential in the world, which will become a historical opportunity for Chinese foreign trade enterprises to move from "big foreign trade" to "strong foreign trade".
Resist, persevere, hope, and live up to youth
Hu Jing, the overall champion of the 2021 XTransfer Treasure Foreign Trader Shenzhen Sharing Competition, shared his entrepreneurial history as a representative of a million "ant soldiers" small and medium-sized micro and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises. As one of the earliest entrepreneurs to contact the foreign trade industry, Hu Jing shared his journey from fighting alone to building an excellent team. In 2021, Hu Jing's company achieved sales of more than 100 million yuan, employees exceeded 100, and won the exclusive ODM/OEM project cooperation of well-known domestic and foreign manufacturers, which deeply interpreted the strength and resilience of China's small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises in the face of complex situations.
In 2022, the foreign trade situation is both happy and worried, the international situation has suddenly changed, and the impact of the new crown epidemic is still continuing, but there are also some positive driving forces, including the "14th Five-Year Plan for High-quality Development of Foreign Trade" launched by the Ministry of Commerce and other departments in the second half of 2021 and the official entry into force of RCEP in early 2022, which has laid a solid policy foundation for the high-quality development of small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, and digital capabilities will also become an important force to promote China's small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises to go global. Talking about the dividends in the digital age, Hu Jing introduced, "The emergence of XTransfer has enabled small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises to enjoy the same level of cross-border financial services as large multinational groups. Foreign traders should make good use of such tools and insist that by the second half of 2022, new opportunities for market demand will be ushered in. ”
Build "foreign trade ecology +" and provide a full range of comprehensive services
As a service provider in the foreign trade industry, XTransfer not only meets the cross-border financial service needs of small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, but also creates a "foreign trade ecology +", which integrates high-quality resources through an open and shared new foreign trade ecology to better serve the majority of small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises. XTransfer's second national foreign trade New Year's Eve speech, inviting tens of thousands of foreign trade industry practitioners to participate in online interaction, is another important practice of XTransfer's "foreign trade ecology +" service.
In the post-epidemic era, with the improvement of the foreign trade ecology and the help of a number of national policies, in 2022, China's power dominated by foreign trade enterprises will become the highlight of global economic development. For the majority of small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, deeply embracing digitalization, giving play to the entrepreneurial spirit, and continuing to struggle with innovative cognition and professional diligence will surely write a new chapter in the high-quality development of China's foreign trade.
Source: Thoughtful Shanghai