Agriculture & Food

Eating 300 lychees a day, I will never refuse to grow up as a Lingnan person; A bowl of Guangxi noodles, soothing his homesickness On April 4th, the 2023 China ASEAN Expo Tour and the "Guipin Sail to the Sea" event were held in Singapore, and the "Guangxi Good Things" arrived at the Beautiful Lion City. On the same day, leaders and guests from the Singapore and Guangxi governments jointly opened the event. This is the first time in three years since the outbreak of the epidemic that Guangxi has held an overseas "Guipin Sailing" exhibition.

Focusing on the needs of the Singapore market, this exhibition set up a boutique exhibition area of "Guipin Sailing to the Sea" in the core area of the exhibition hall, including special booths in Wuzhou City, Guigang City, Yulin City, Beihai City and so on. A total of 72 Guangxi exhibitors carefully selected Wuzhou Liubao tea, Hengzhou jasmine tea, Liuzhou Luosifen, southern black sesame soup, Beihai Hepu Nanzhu, Nixing pottery, electric cars and more than 100 high-quality "Guipin" featured products for collective exhibition in Singapore, It has enhanced the new image of Guangxi enterprises in opening up to the outside world and created a new business card of "Guipin". The exhibition will last for 2 days, during which Singaporean citizens can have a close look at Gui products, taste Gui flavor, experience Gui culture, and experience Gui technology.

Yang Chunting, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, stated that Guangxi and ASEAN are connected by mountains and rivers, closely related by blood, and serve as a window for China to open up and cooperate with ASEAN. The unique ecological advantages here have given birth to excellent green ecological products. After years of development, Guangxi has cultivated 75 core brands of "Gui Hao", forming a beautiful business card of "good mountains, good waters, and good products" in Guangxi. He proposed to work with Singapore to take practical actions, seize opportunities, and share business opportunities, promote the implementation of a higher level economic and trade cooperation mechanism, and continuously improve the level of cooperation between Guangxi and Singapore; To jointly create a convenient place for dual circulation market operation; Jointly promote higher level economic, trade and investment cooperation. Under the framework of the Free Trade Agreement and the China ASEAN Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, the two sides of Guangxi and Singapore further improve the level of service trade and investment openness, promote more high-quality "Guangxi products" to enter ASEAN and global markets through Singapore, and allow more high-quality Singaporean products to be sold to China through Guangxi, achieving a new level of economic and trade cooperation between Guangxi and Singapore.

It is reported that in 2022, the import and export volume of international trade between Guangxi and Singapore reached 6.85 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 99.1%. Guangxi's agricultural and food products, as well as its own branded products, have a high degree of overlap with Singapore's international trade imports. This Singapore exhibition revolves around characteristic products such as Guiche, Guicha, Guiguo, Guijiu, Guifen, etc. The focus is on precise promotion and concentrated display of Guangxi's advantageous industries and brands, helping Guangxi's international trade enterprises expand into the Singapore market, and utilizing Singapore's advantage as a major trade transit country, As well as the construction of a new land sea channel and Guangxi's unique geographical advantages towards ASEAN, we will assist Guangxi's international trade enterprises and advantageous characteristic commodities in "going global", further enhancing the scale and level of international trade.

Next, the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region will thoroughly implement the "brand power" project and the great initiative of the "the Belt and Road", further promote the brand of Guangxi to go to the country and the world through "Guangxi products out of the country" and "Guangxi products out of the sea", and help Guangxi enterprises to accelerate their integration into the "double cycle" new development pattern.