Opening ceremony of the Han Fair.
Foreign guests visited and exchanged at the booth of the Han Fair.
A world-class trade event, a front-end showcase in the wave of "digitalization". From October 12th to 26th, the 2021 Global Digital Trade Conference and Wuhan (Hankou North) Commodity Fair (referred to as the Digital Trade Fair and Han Fair) was held, and Hubei Wuhan anchored the goal of struggle, made a breakthrough in the development of the digital economy, and demonstrated to the world the vigorous vitality of business and trade and the potential of digital intelligence.
As a large-scale economic and trade exhibition facing the world, the Digital Trade Fair and han fair respond to the call of the state to promote the healthy development of China's digital economy, promote the integration and development of the digital economy and the market circulation system, and is the practice of Hubei to promote the smooth flow of domestic and foreign economic cycles, which will help Hubei Wuhan to build a new highland for inland opening up and accelerate the construction of a national commercial and trade logistics center, which is bound to have a far-reaching impact on the national digital economy map. Help Wuhan International Trade City to build a super-large trade hub that serves the whole country and radiates the world, and accelerates the construction of an important node of the domestic cycle and a strategic link between the domestic and international double cycle.
Chinese and foreign guests came to Han to seek cooperation
Digital trade achievements reflect China's attractiveness
The world is gathering in Wuhan again. During the conference, foreign guests gathered, and 141 foreign guests from 93 countries walked into Hankou North to learn about Hubei in the wonderful business activities and praised the rapid changes in Wuhan. They showed a strong willingness to cooperate and introduced Wuhan to the world.
At the opening of the conference on October 12, Yoshinori Ogawa, executive director of Japan Marubeni Co., Ltd. and general representative of China, said in a video speech that Wuhan has been an important commercial town since ancient times, and the circulation of goods has developed. The popularity of the Han Fair has increased year by year, and its influence has become greater and greater, and it will further deepen its cooperation with Outstanding Chinese enterprises such as Zall in the future.
On October 13, the cross-border cooperation promotion meeting was held, and the global digital trade alliance was officially announced. The participating envoys are optimistic about the development of Wuhan's digital economy and hope to find opportunities to strengthen cooperation between their country and Wuhan.
Robert Stirling Quandt, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas in China, said that Wuhan is a trade and transportation hub in central China and enjoys advantages in economic development. Martin Chedongdo, ambassador of the Republic of Zimbabwe to China, who came to Wuhan for the first time, praised Wuhan, saying that "Wuhan is a beautiful city, the citizens are happy, and the initiatives to optimize the business environment are exciting." Dr. Yudrian, chief representative of the Polish Investment and Trade Agency's office in China, directly proposed that he hoped to bring Polish new energy vehicles, food and other advantageous commodities into the Chinese market through Wuhan.
At the Han Fair, diplomatic envoys from 103 countries, representatives of foreign business associations, hundreds of important wholesale markets across the country, dozens of well-known foreign trade enterprises and representatives of digital technology enterprises used the Wuhan digital trade platform to carry out international trade procurement and various economic, trade and technical exchanges through online and offline methods, and forge new trade partnerships. Through the market procurement fair, about 6.5 billion yuan of cooperation intentions were reached, and more than 300 domestic sellers plan to enter foreign cross-border e-commerce platforms such as Amazon and ebay. More than 8 billion yuan of intentions were reached at the cross-border e-commerce special session, more than 20 million yuan was reached through export-to-domestic exhibitions, and more than 13 billion US dollars were signed with Hubei export enterprises, demonstrating the strong attraction of Wuhan as an important hub of the new pattern of "double circulation".
Attract investment and wisdom with the same frequency resonance
Write a new era of "goods through Wuhan live"
The digital economy is an important engine of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change, and data show that in the first half of this year, the digital economy accounted for more than 40% of Wuhan's GDP. According to the "Wuhan Breakthrough Development Digital Economy Implementation Plan", the added value of Wuhan's digital economy will account for more than 50% of GDP in the next three years, and it will be built into a first-tier city in the national digital economy.
Ma Guangyuan, an economist who has long been concerned about the development of Wuhan, believes that under the new development pattern of "double circulation", the advantages of Wuhan's development of digital intelligence economy are very prominent, whether it is digital infrastructure, digital intelligence commerce and trade and industrial digitalization, Wuhan has all the foundations to become the world's first echelon, and is the most promising, most potential and most imaginative city for the development of China's digital intelligence economy in the next decade.
"Hubei Wuhan will definitely lead the trend of digital trade in the future." Wang Zhentao, chairman of Aokang Group, believes that the development of digital trade in Wuhan is not accidental, but has the advantages of time, location, people and factors, has the foresight of the system and top-level design level, has the support of a large number of commercial and trade enterprises, manufacturing enterprises, and has many advantages such as transportation, logistics and talents.
"When we talk about digital trade, the main force it relies on is also the market players." Gao Peiyong, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that whether it is the whole country or Wuhan, Hubei Province, planning to develop digital trade must be carried out around the main body of the market. The government should improve and optimize the business environment, focus on the construction of various policies and systems on the main body of the market, and revolve around the main body of the market.
Nobel Laureate in economics, Norwegian economist Finn Kidland said in a video speech to the conference that Hubei Wuhan should encourage more enterprises to participate in the development of the digital economy and give strong policy support, and these enterprises will have more confidence.
During the Han Fair, the voice of "optimistic about Hubei and supporting Hubei" turned into real actions——
Alibaba, JD Group, Digital China, Ant Group, Digital China and other 15 well-known enterprises and institutions in the country signed a proposal, indicating that they will actively lay out trade-oriented headquarters and R&D delivery centers in Han, and actively support and fully participate in the construction of Wuhan National Commercial and Trade Logistics Center.
At the beginning of this year, the construction of Wuhan International Trade City with an investment of more than 31 billion yuan will be started, and the Hankou North Market will also be doubled on the basis of the existing scale, upgrading and upgrading Wuhan's dual-cycle hub status, and comprehensively benchmarking the world's leading commercial and logistics platform.
On October 23, the Hubei Chamber of Commerce of Guangdong Province, which came to participate in the Chu Merchants Conference and the Han Fair, signed a cooperation agreement with Hankou North Group to carry out comprehensive cooperation in clothing, hardware, lighting and other industries, set up a marketing headquarters in Wuhan International Trade City, attract Chu merchant brands back to Han, and promote new projects, new platforms, new achievements and new technologies to blossom in Wuhan.
Promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries
Activate "A Pool of Spring Water"
With the conference as the media, Wuhan is based on its traditional advantages and relies on the strong "computing power" provided by digital trade to promote the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy.
At the opening ceremony, Wuhan Enterprise Zall Zhilian signed a contract with 15 wholesale markets such as Shandong Linyi Mall, Hangzhou Four Seasons Green Garment, Jiangsu East China Hardware City, Hangzhou YIfa Commercial Group, beijing Xinfadi Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market, covering North China, Central China and South China, involving clothing, agricultural products, home furnishing, hardware products and other formats. Zall Zhilian will provide digital market application system services such as smart market, commodity management and smart logistics for these 15 markets, and promote the digitalization and intelligent upgrading of the national wholesale market.
"The future of Wuhan is more worth looking forward to, and the wholesale market is more worth looking forward to." Cao Tianbin, president of Wuhan Hankou North Group, said at the annual meeting of the Chinese wholesale market that the digital economy is both an opportunity and a challenge, and as a wholesale market, it is necessary to embrace change but not superstitious change, and to change in order to improve efficiency and promote market prosperity. Hankou North is cooperating with Douyin to expand business channels through online and offline linkage, and more foreign trade enterprises will move in later.
On the opening day of the conference on October 12, the first Douyin e-commerce live broadcast base in Wuhan, located in Hankou North, was officially put into operation, and the anchors introduced products to the whole country and the world for the camera, opening the online trading of this year's Han Fair. Through this channel, thousands of Jingchu good things are continuously sent to the whole country and even the world.
Boom market engine "double cycle"
Shoulder the responsibility for regional development
The conference further highlighted the advantages of commercial circulation in Wuhan, Hubei Province, helped Hubei Wuhan shoulder the responsibility of regional development, and realized the "world of goods" in the era of digital economy in the integration into the new development pattern.
On October 12, the 100 professional procurement activities of the Han Fair opened at the same time. Hankou North HanPai children's clothing autumn and winter order will attract nearly 800 buyers across the country to enthusiastically order. During the Han Fair, 113 professional procurement activities such as the National Tide Footwear Brand Joint Exhibition, the Underwear Brand Joint Order Fair, and the Stationery Joint Exhibition were held one after another, showing the latest trend of consumer goods in china.
The Shanghai Hehe Museum, which opened during the Han Fair, has become the "offline traffic king" in more than 10 pavilions of the Han Fair. It brings together more than 700 imported goods from SCO countries, priced at prices close to the price of the place of origin. In addition, the Han Fair specially set up three special exhibition halls in Jiangxi Pavilion, Hunan Pavilion and Chushang Pavilion to promote the interconnection and integration cycle of the three markets and help the three provinces in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to coordinate and develop high-quality.
Chang'e Medical Group Chairman Lin Guohua said that Chang'e Medicine has entered Hunan, the development momentum is good, through the Han Fair hopes to dock to Jiangxi partners, using the basic advantages of the interconnection of the three provinces and the new model of co-construction, co-governance and sharing, forming a solid production and marketing chain, with the "Middle Triangle" as the core radiation of the whole country.
Build a global reputation
Achieve milestones in the development of digital trade
The 15-day Han Fair was full of highlights, and a series of achievements were made in economic and trade cooperation and industrial docking, reaching domestic and foreign trade cooperation in international trade, international exports, platform distribution, market procurement, market distribution, brand purchase and sales, etc., showing the prosperity of the market to the world.
The total transaction amount during the conference was 402.8 billion yuan. Among them, the purchase and transaction orders of consumer goods such as clothing, shoes and bags, hotel supplies and other consumer goods were 82.7 billion yuan, and the transaction amount of e-commerce live broadcasting was 260 million yuan; the purchase orders of bulk agricultural products, steel and other platforms were 88.1 billion yuan, the orders of international trade platforms such as coal were 9.6 billion US dollars, and the orders of export and overseas procurement intentions were 26.7 billion US dollars.
Opel Leaf, a business representative from Nigeria, came to Wuhan for the first time, and she said that digitalization has deeply affected the lives of human beings around the world, and the Han Fair has given her an in-depth understanding of the development of different countries, especially China, in the digital field. Zhou Bei, deputy director of the Embassy of the Republic of the Gambia in China, said: "I love Wuhan and hope that the Gambia can strengthen cooperation with Wuhan in tourism. ”
Also praising the Han Fair are many well-known entrepreneurs. Chen Dongsheng, chairman of Taikang Group, said: "The scale of the conference is grand, the business flow is active, and the popularity is strong. I believe that the future of the Han Fair is better, and it can make greater contributions to the expansion of opening up in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and the construction of a 'new coastal' under the new pattern of double circulation." ”
As the former Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the former Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, Supachai Banibadi, said in his opening remarks, this trade fair directly responds to China's dual-cycle development strategy. The Hubei Province and Wuhan Municipal Governments have actively held digital trade conferences, and their efforts to promote digital trade are of great significance, are of great significance, contribute to the realization of the dual-cycle strategy, and will certainly become a milestone in the future trading system. (Liu Tianzhong)
Source: Hubei Daily