“6 days + 365 days” One-stop Trading Service Platforms to extend the influence of the CIIE
By Tian Hong,
People's Daily
"Six days
are just too short for us," said many exhibitors at the end of the first
China International Import Expo (CIIE) held last November.
Through the
platform of the CIIE, many foreign exhibitors could build up a general picture
of the Chinese market and its consumers, thus pinpointing the needs of Chinese
consumers and exploring the business opportunities in the Chinese market.
To further turn
the exhibits at the expo into commodities and develop the 6-day event into an
all-year-round campaign, Shanghai has established “6 days + 365 days” One-stop
Trading Service Platforms.
These permanent
trading platforms could be divided into four sub-types: comprehensive services
platform, cross-border e-commerce platform, professional trading platform and
national commodities center.
After the first
import expo, the first batch of trading platforms brought in more than 20,000
products from nearly 800 exhibitors, with a value of over 9 billion yuan, and
imported about 75.2 billion yuan worth of goods, an increase of 108 percent
year on year.
Many "star
exhibits" at the expo such as the Spanish ham, Australian wine, Japanese
rice have entered the Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trading Center
in Shanghai in the form of bonded direct sales.
The center
serves as one of the permanent trading platforms where bonded exhibition,
transaction, logistics and storage services are all available.
As a major
platform that demonstrates and expands the spillover effects of the CIIE, it is
positioned as a distribution center of imported goods that connects the Yangtze
River Delta, serves the whole nation, and even radiates the Asia-Pacific
region.
Starting
operation since May this year, the center has attracted more than 400 brands
and 2,500 commodities from 26 countries, exploring the new models of bonded
exhibition and post-exhibition trading.
On Sept. 25, a
Type B bonded logistics center at the Shanghai Hongqiao Central Business
District started operation, which can carry out bonded exhibition, transactions
and cross-border e-commerce business.
Since imported
commodities are directly shipped from merchants to the bonded platform, the
operating costs of logistics and other procedures are reduced, said Cai Jun,
general manager of the Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trading Center,
adding that many of the imported products are now sold at their respective
overseas prices.
Greenland Global
Commodity Trading Hub, another permanent exhibition and trade platform, is
located next to the venue of the first CIIE. So far, it has received more than
350,000 visitors and held over 50 trade and business activities.
It has welcomed
more than 700 professional buyers from home and abroad and helped 150 merchants
find downstream channels.
To facilitate
the second CIIE, another 18 platforms were licensed as permanent trading ones
on Oct. 22, including the Hongqiao Free Trade City.
Besides
continuing with the supporting services from the first expo, Shanghai has taken
four new measures to improve the import expo this year, including setting up a
special customs office at the expo venue, introducing big data to manage the
event, simplifying the registration of food enterprises, and shortening
the approval time.
The city has
also used big data to facilitate online handling of cross-border trade
formalities such as exhibition declaration and information comparison. In
addition, the Shanghai Customs has set up 125 service windows and special
channels for the expo to provide 24-hour services for the exhibitors.
The bank of Huangpu River in Shanghai. (Photo/Hua
Jiashun)
“6 days + 365 days” One-stop Trading Service Platforms to extend the influence of the CIIE
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