General

Chongzuo City continuously optimizes the port business environment, ensures convenient and efficient customs clearance for enterprises, implements various stable foreign trade policies, and promotes steady growth of foreign trade. Customs data shows that in the first quarter of this year, the total import and export value of Chongzuo City's foreign trade was 53.27 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 170.9%. The scale and growth rate of foreign trade both ranked first in Guangxi.

Recently, 24510 and 24512 cross-border unmanned refrigerated train sets carrying 435 tons of tropical fruits such as durian and mangosteen from Thailand successfully arrived at the logistics center of the Pingxiang Port of China Railway. After inspection, the fruits will be distributed to various parts of the country by road, and the Pingxiang Railway Port in Guangxi is experiencing a wave of fruit transportation in Southeast Asia.

He Jiaming, General Manager of Guangxi Wuhua International Trading Company

The "8+1" refrigerated train set can sustain refrigeration during transportation, effectively ensuring the quality and transportation time of cross-border e-commerce fruit storage and transportation, allowing the company to feel the speed of transportation and customs clearance. During the peak season of durian in Vietnam, our company is considering importing a large amount of fruits from railway ports.

The demand for ASEAN fruit imports has been increasing year by year, and fresh goods are difficult to preserve during long-distance transportation. In order to improve the efficiency of imported fruit transportation, China Railway Nanning Bureau launched the "8+1" cross-border unmanned refrigerated train set in August last year. Traditional cold chain container transportation requires electric refrigeration every 4 hours, while the "8+1" unmanned refrigerated vehicle group consists of 8 refrigerated containers and 1 power generation box, which can continuously power and cool 8 containers for 300 hours. While ensuring fruit quality, it further compresses customs clearance time and improves the efficiency and efficiency of the international trade supply chain. According to customs data, in the first quarter of 2023, Pingxiang Railway Port had a total of 81000 tons of imported and exported goods with a value of 1.45 billion yuan, including 151.6 tons of imported fruits with an import value of 5.021 million yuan. In order to welcome the wave of Southeast Asian fruit import transportation and ensure the "fresh" listing of fruits, Pingxiang Customs has implemented a series of supporting measures to ensure efficient and convenient cross-border logistics.

Jiang Quan, Chief of the Supervision Department of Pingxiang Customs

Open up a green channel, implement a '5+2' supervision and holiday special inspection mode, actively coordinate the priority grouping and pushing of railway stations, establish dedicated windows to handle customs declaration, goods inspection and release, and reduce the stay time of trains at ports, and continuously improve the efficiency of port and shore transportation.

At the land port in Pingxiang, due to its efficient customs clearance environment and obvious geographical advantages, the Friendship Pass port has become the best choice for most Southeast Asian fruits, electronic products, and other goods trade and logistics transportation. According to customs data, in the first quarter of this year, the number of inbound and outbound vehicles at the Friendship Customs port reached 80000, with an average daily number of inbound and outbound vehicles increasing to 889, and the highest daily number of inbound and outbound vehicles was 1488. Since the orderly resumption of customs clearance on January 8th this year, the Friendship Customs port has become increasingly busy. With the efficient and convenient customs clearance services provided by Shanghai Customs, the customs clearance efficiency of enterprise exports has also made a qualitative leap.

The efficiency of customs clearance is very fast now. Vehicles depart from Shenzhen and enter the freight yard. The declaration of documents can be completed in almost half an hour. Our business volume has doubled, and the monthly declaration quantity of customs declaration documents is over 1000, reaching 500 million RMB.

Ye Guoxi, Deputy Chief of Logistics Monitoring Department at Friendship Customs and Haiguan Customs

The main exported goods at the Friendship Customs Port are mechanical and electrical products, labor-intensive products, such as exported whole vehicles and large equipment, while imports are mainly mechanical and electrical products, agricultural products, such as durian, dragon fruit, bamboo and other fruits.

Behind the booming foreign trade is the timely and effective policy and measure support of Chongzuo City. Since the beginning of this year, customs and commercial departments at various ports have timely optimized and adjusted the customs clearance process for goods, and comprehensively abolished port classification and zoning management, closed-loop management, cross-border driving management, etc., helping to quickly restore the clearance efficiency of border ports in Chongzuo. According to customs data, in the first quarter of 2023, Chongzuo's foreign trade achieved a reversal: the total import and export value of the city's foreign trade was 53.27 billion yuan, an increase of 170.9% compared to the same period last year, and the growth rate was 105.5 percentage points higher than the growth rate of the entire region's foreign trade. According to customs data, exports reached 41.31 billion yuan, an increase of 157.9% compared to the same period last year; The import was 11.96 billion yuan, an increase of 228% compared to the same period last year.