Original title: "Combined port + route dense network" supports the increase in foreign trade volume and quality, and the high-quality economic development is more vigorous
CCTV News: In the first three quarters of 2024, the total import and export value of the mainland's foreign trade reached 32.33 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.3%. When the reporter interviewed in the Yantian Port Area of Shenzhen, he found that behind the increase in quantity and quality of foreign trade, the route network of "Made in China" to the sea is constantly weaving.
Shenzhen Yantian Port is responsible for more than one-third of Guangdong's foreign trade import and export volume, and more than one-quarter of the country's exports to the United States. In the Yantian port area, the person in charge showed the reporter an updated route map. In the first nine months of 2024 alone, 16 new routes were added.
Seeing the significant increase in cross-border e-commerce shipments, shipping companies opened this cross-border e-commerce special line from Shenzhen to Los Angeles in North America in the second quarter of 2024, shortening the customer stocking period to 3-4 days.
In addition to the additional routes, Guangdong will also open 6 new "Greater Bay Area Combination Ports" in 2024. When goods are boarded from the vicinity of the enterprise, they can go directly to Yantian Port to board international cargo ships, and reach their destinations faster.
The network of foreign trade routes continues to be dense, driving the increase in foreign trade volume and quality. In the first three quarters, the mainland's trade with more than 160 countries and regions has grown, imports and exports to ASEAN and the Belt and Road countries have increased by 9.4% and 6.3% respectively, and the proportion of emerging markets in China's imports and exports has increased to 64.5%.
Xiao Lu, deputy director of the Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce, said that in the first three quarters, imports and exports between the mainland and major traditional markets remained stable. At the same time, it has become closer to emerging markets, achieving continuous improvement in quality and steady progress in scale, and making positive contributions to the development of the national economy.
Source: CCTV