Everything is reviving and thriving.
In a scene full of enthusiasm and vitality, Xinhua News Agency reporters recently visited Zhejiang’s production workshops, ports and docks, professional markets and scientific research institutes intensively, and felt the fundamentals of China’s economic improvement in silent but powerful stories; Experience the strong pulse of "confidence flow" in the rolling forward of import and export flow, intellectual flow, innovation flow and consumption flow.
Feel the great potential of China’s foreign trade in "one in and one out"
— — Story 1: "Return" Raja
With curly black hair and wheat skin, Raja, a heavy-eyed Indian businessman, was busy in Yiwu China Commodity City early in the morning. He picked up the goods on the shelves, observed and compared them, and quickly recorded relevant information with his mobile phone.
"I haven’t been back for three years, and I miss it here too much." Raja smiled with joy.
Yiwu China Commodity City has the reputation of "world supermarket". In the market with a business area of over 6 million square meters, there are 75,000 merchants and 2.1 million kinds of commodities, with a daily passenger flow of 200,000, and 15,000 resident foreign businessmen at peak times.
Affected by the epidemic, the bustling market in the past was deserted, especially for foreign businessmen, who were inconvenient to come to China and could only communicate with merchants through screens and telephones, which had a great impact on business.
"My business has dropped by nearly 30% in these three years, and China people like to say ‘ Seize the day ’ It is too in line with my current mood. " This businessman, who has been engaged in Sino-Indian trade for more than 20 years, booked an air ticket to China for the first time after the epidemic prevention and control entered a new stage.
Toys, stationery, artificial flowers, luggage … … Raja’s shopping list is long and varied. It is for this reason that he increasingly feels that he can’t live without Yiwu, a super-large market.
"We will set up a trading company in Yiwu this year, bring more friends to purchase, and plan to buy 400 containers of goods! China products with frequent new products, high quality and beautiful price will definitely sell well in my country. " Raja said.
The return of "Rajas" makes the merchants in Commodity City more confident. Lu Qingrong, the owner of Jingrong Toys, said: "The merchants and orders are wave after wave. The orders received in the beginning of the year have already been arranged in May and June. It is estimated that the sales this year will increase by 30% over the previous two years."
The data shows that the number of resident foreign businessmen in Yiwu has risen steadily, and now it has exceeded 10,000. In January this year, China-Europe trains in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province started 240 trains and sent 20,140 TEUs, with a year-on-year increase of 172.1%.
Raja (right), an Indian businessman, buys in a toy shop in Yiwu China Commodity City (photo taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Zongzhi on February 2, 2023).
— — Story 2: Chen Xiaojun who spans 40,000 kilometers.
From the United States to France, the Netherlands, Norway, and then to Cambodia, since November last year, Chen Xiaojun has been taking the company team around the clock, with a round trip of nearly 40,000 kilometers.
Ligao Holding Group, founded by Chen Xiaojun, has an annual output of 30 million bags. However, affected by the epidemic, the luggage industry has been hit hard, and so has Ligao. How to break the game? Go out!
"If the customer returns the drink cup, he can change it to 1 euro." This detail of Norwegian street drinks shop deeply touched Chen Xiaojun: green and low carbon is not only an initiative, but also a big business opportunity.
Not only Europe, but also some countries in other regions are vigorously promoting packaging recycling and carbon reduction monitoring. A large number of small and medium-sized enterprises have included green and low carbon in their development plans, which is rare in the past.
This "going out to sea" after a lapse of three years prompted Chen Xiaojun to respond quickly.
After returning to China, he immediately formed a team and put himself into a new track — — Using recycled materials to make green luggage with replaceable and repairable parts and easy reuse.
Since the beginning of this year, the orders of the old customers of Ligao have increased by more than 30% on average, and their confidence in holding the leading position in the industry has been further enhanced.
The data shows that in December last year, Zhejiang government and enterprises joined forces and moved from time to time, and "went out to sea" 20 groups in a single month, obtaining new orders of more than 18 billion yuan. In 2022, the import and export scale of Zhejiang Province reached a record high, of which 3.43 trillion yuan was exported, up 14.0% year-on-year.
Feel the vigorous driving force of China’s high-quality development under the tide of innovation
— — Story 3: "Birthday" is the grand corridor of 80 science and technology subjects.
Where is "Zhongguancun" and "Zhangjiang" in Zhejiang? Hangzhou Chengxi Kechuang Corridor! Shi Huang Kai has a firm answer in his heart.
Shi Huang Kai is the deputy director of the Hangzhou West Science and Technology Corridor Management Committee. This large corridor starts from Yuquan Campus of Zhejiang University in the east and ends at Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University in the west, with a total length of 39 kilometers and an area of about 416 square kilometers.
This corridor, the position is not small. Five laboratories in Zhejiang Province, including Zhijiang Laboratory and Xihu Laboratory, have gathered 2,597 state-level high-tech enterprises, 80 state-level science and technology platforms and 520,000 professional and technical personnel.
"Every working day here, 80 new science and technology subjects can be added, which provides a steady stream of power for high-quality economic development." Shi Huang Kai said.
At present, Hangzhou Chengxi Science and Technology Corridor is accelerating the cultivation of new economic growth poles by relying on the advantages of innovation foundation. Since its establishment seven years ago, the added value of the large corridor industry has increased from 106.33 billion yuan to 311.98 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 20.5%, of which the contribution rate of high-tech industries has exceeded 75%.
The data shows that in 2022, scientific apparatus, Zhejiang Province achieved a zero breakthrough, Zhijiang Laboratory was incorporated into the national laboratory system, and 10 provincial laboratories and 10 provincial technological innovation centers completed the layout, and the driving force of science and technology innovation became stronger and stronger.
In the Zhijiang Laboratory Computing and Data Center located in the Kechuang Corridor in the west of Hangzhou, engineers monitor the running status of the server cluster through the "Zhijiang Cloud" system (photo taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Zongzhi on June 23, 2022).
— — Story 4: Cars that "change lanes and overtake"
"In the past, we felt that it was fashionable to drive imported cars from Europe and America. Now the main market for new energy vehicles we export is Europe." Chen Guanliu’s face was filled with pride when he mentioned the change of car’s "flow direction".
Chen Guanliu is the deputy director of manufacturing of Lingke Automobile Yuyao Factory. Among the domestic high-end automobile exports of more than 250,000 yuan, the Lexus automobile market ranks first.
Engaged in the automobile industry for 17 years, in Chen Guanliu’s view, it is too difficult for China’s traditional fuel vehicles to catch up with Europe and the United States in an all-round way, but on the brand-new track of new energy vehicles, we have kept pace with the European and American automobile industries in many aspects, and even have advantages in intelligent driving and power system.
Lingke is located in the super factory in Yuyao, Ningbo. All production rhythms are calculated according to "seconds" or "minutes": 4 seconds, 6,000-ton punching machine goes up and down once, and two sets of body plates are punched out; In 63 seconds, four flexible robots drive high-precision cameras to measure 80 points of the whole vehicle; 526 robots flew up and down, and the spot welding automation rate of more than 5,800 solder joints reached 100%. In 60 minutes, 45 cars were rolled off the assembly line.
"Even if the production is at full capacity, the overseas orders of the factory have been scheduled after April this year." Chen Guanliu said, "This is confidence and confidence."
The data shows that: seize major opportunities in advance and lay out the track of emerging industries. With the new energy automobile industry as the representative, four trillion-level advanced industrial clusters, 15 billion-level characteristic industrial clusters and a number of tens of billions of "new star" industrial clusters are rising rapidly in Zhejiang.
Workers carry out the inspection process before going offline in the assembly workshop of Lingke Automobile Yuyao Factory in Zhejiang Province (photo taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Zongzhi on January 5, 2023).
Feel the bright future of China consumption in the booming market.
— — Story 5: The Wulin Road of "Restoring Fire"
With the bright moon in the sky, the Wulin night market in Hangzhou began to be lively. Neon lights, people come and go.
Drilling into the music and food snack city, the trendy music is mixed with the sounds of pots and pans and the sizzling hot oil, which makes people’s appetite greatly. Mr. and Mrs. Yao Xiaolin from Jilin, while greeting the customers who came in and out, were busy tipping spoons and taking orders.
"I’m really busy. I have to hire someone." Yao Xiaolin said that from the Spring Festival to now, the popularity of Wulin Road is getting higher every day, and the business is getting better every day.
Liu Mingxia, the owner of the pet shop, didn’t expect that the business of his new store on Wulin Road was so hot that he couldn’t get off work until early morning every night. Seeing more and more young people visiting the night market with kittens, she is planning the next branch.
Wulin Road is a famous consumer street in old Hang Cheng. According to statistics, since the Spring Festival this year, the average traffic volume of Wulin passers-by has been close to 80,000 per day, double that of last year.
"Definitely not bad!" Deng Liying, who has opened a clothing store in Wulin Road for 23 years, is full of confidence in the future.
The data shows that the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce, in conjunction with various departments, recently launched the "Zhejiang Lai Consumption Boosting Year 2023" campaign, striving for more than 1,000 consumption promotion activities at the provincial, city and county levels and launching more than 10,000 enterprises throughout the year, driving sales to exceed 400 billion yuan.
Feel the continuous improvement of business environment from "closing on the same day"
— — Story 6: Lu Liuliu with peace of mind
"Name of event: company establishment registration; Legal time limit for settlement: 20 working days; Time limit for commitment to settle accounts: online within 24 hours and offline on the same day; Number of visits to the service site: 0 times. "
Log on to Zhejiang Government Affairs Service Network and open the page of "Company Registration". Lu Liuliu, who applied for starting a company for the first time, drummed his heart: It is said that Zhejiang has a good business environment. Is it really so good?
Lu Gang, a 54-year-old man, retired from an enterprise in Shengzhou, Shaoxing, and he planned to register a company and sell some small household appliances on the cross-border e-commerce platform to earn foreign exchange.
Application, articles of association and identification … … According to the process, when Lao Lu fills in the form one by one, he clicks Submit. At the same time, "data running" replaces "manual running", and pieces of data flow rapidly in tax, social security, medical insurance, provident fund and other systems.
The data in the optical fiber runs fast. The application submitted in the morning was notified by SMS when I woke up in the afternoon. The next morning, the business license was accompanied by the courier ringing the doorbell and arrived at the door. From beginning to end, I didn’t spend a penny and didn’t run in the government service hall.
From "running by all departments" to "running at most once" and then "not running at all", the "No.1 Reform Project" to implement the business environment was written into the work report of the Zhejiang provincial government, and it was also written into local laws and regulations, which became a stable policy.
The data shows that there are more than 9.4 million market players in Zhejiang Province. According to the proportion of permanent residents, there is one boss in every seven people in Zhejiang.
Economic story, human warm current.
Whether in Zhejiang or other places, one touching story gathers into the spring tide of China’s economy, surging with the power of stability and improvement. (Reporter Wu Huanqing, Shang Yiying, Fang Wenyu, Lin Guangyao)