Cross-border in Southeast Asia is not popular, just look at the logistics—Shenzhen Jiya Supply Chain

On January 6, in the Pingxiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, which is the key development and opening test zone in Pingxiang, Guangxi (hereinafter referred to as the test zone), the reporter saw that there were trucks full of goods on the road, in the logistics park, and before and after the port. Customs brokers in protective clothing walked back and forth. At the beginning of the new year, this port, which accounts for more than half of Guangxi's customs declarations, is already a busy scene.

“Due to festival factors, the demand for annual goods from the Chinese and Vietnamese people has led to a surge in logistics. Now it is the peak trade season, and related facilities have been overloaded these days.” said Nong Chaoyong, director of the administrative committee of the pilot zone.

01丨Imports and exports continue to grow

The Pingxiang Pilot Zone was approved in August 2016. With Pingxiang City as the core, Pingxiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Pingxiang Border Economic Cooperation Zone, Chongzuo City Industrial Zone, China-ASEAN Youth Industrial Park and other key parks will be built to build " The spatial pattern of "one nuclear, three districts, and three bases".

The reporter saw at the smart port on the first floor of the Youyi Customs that the number of vehicles passing through the customs was recorded in real time on the display screen, and it also accurately showed that the average length of the passage occupied by the customs business on that day was 10.64 seconds. In 2020, a total of 356,700 trucks will pass the customs, and the total import and export value will increase by 35%. In the first 6 days of 2021, nearly a thousand vehicles will pass through customs every day.

In order to meet the demand for the constant influx of vehicles to pass the customs, the Youyiguan Port will be released from 8 am to 8 pm, open all year round. In order to expand the throughput, the Youyiguan Port has built a new three-in-three-out channel on the basis of the original three-in and three-out channel. After being put into use, it will effectively alleviate the pressure of vehicles passing through.

Despite the impact of the epidemic, the import and export of Friendship Pass maintained rapid growth. According to the analysis of Nong Chaoyong, in the past five years, driven by the country’s opening-up policy, the pilot zone’s infrastructure has improved, the level of interconnection has improved, customs clearance facilitation reforms, processing trade policies, and free trade zone policies have been implemented one after another. They are port imports and exports. The main reason for continued growth.

After five years of hard work, new breakthroughs have been made in the construction of Tongbian railways and highways in the experimental zone. Construction of the Nanning-Chongzuo intercity railway has started. Nanyou Expressway, Chongjing Expressway, and Chongzuo-Shuikou Expressway have been completed and opened to traffic. Construction of Long'an-Shuolong Expressway and Chongzuo-Aidian Expressway has started.

It is worth mentioning that breakthroughs have been made in the upgrading of cross-border passages and ports in the experimental zone. Three cross-border passages including China-Vietnam Friendship Pass-Friendship Port Cargo Passage, Sino-Vietnam Puzhai-Xinqing Cargo Passage, Ningmingaidian Port Cargo Passage were completed and opened to traffic; Aidian Port and Shuolong Port were approved to open to the outside world, realizing 4 First-class ports in border counties (cities) are fully covered.

The National Railway Pingxiang Port Logistics Center, which was officially opened at the end of 2018, is the first land-transport railway port logistics center opened in the new western land-sea corridor. Here, the reporter saw the border inspection, customs, health and epidemic prevention departments working together. The center is connected to the Vietnam Railway, and the transit goods can reach Hanoi, Vietnam on the same day without changing trains or reloading. The opening of the center has expanded the railway's cross-border logistics capacity from 2 million tons to 7 million tons.

In February last year, the country’s first inbound fruit train went from Tongdeng, Vietnam to Pingxiang, Guangxi for 24,502 times. It was the first batch of inbound fruit direct transportation services handled by the Pingxiang Port Logistics Center of the State Railways, marking the country’s first railway entry. The designated supervision venues for international fruits were officially put into operation.

"Last year, our railway port imports increased by 16% year-on-year, and exports increased by 45.4% year-on-year. There were 251 cross-border trains and 68 inbound fruit trains," said Jiang Jing, the station director of Pingxiang Railway Station.

02丨Facilitating Customs Clearance

At the same time as the infrastructure is improving, the reform of customs clearance facilitation in the pilot zone is also proceeding drastically. On the basis of the early reform of import goods clearance, Friendship Customs has deepened the promotion of the reform of the "advance declaration, checkpoint acceptance" supervision model, and the release time of export goods has been shortened from 2 to 3 hours to 10 minutes. Carry out the reform of tax collection and management methods such as enterprise self-reporting and self-payment, tariff guarantee insurance, and collective taxation to reduce the financial pressure of enterprises.

"Through the superposition of various customs clearance reform policies, the efficiency of port customs clearance has been greatly improved, and the level of facilitation has been further improved. From January to November 2020, the overall customs clearance time of Youyi Customs customs is 0.7 hours, a decrease of 60.66% compared with the same period last year; the overall customs clearance time of imports is 1.6 hours , Is among the best in the Nanning Customs District.” said Yin Yanjuan, deputy director of the Youyi Customs Customs.

In front of the Friendship Checkpoint, the reporter met with Zhou Yangshen, a customs broker of Wanjun International Logistics Company. He told reporters that in the past, he could only handle 20 orders a day, and after the reform of customs clearance facilitation, he could handle more than 40 orders. "It used to take two or three minutes to start at the bayonet, but now it takes about ten seconds to start, and the whole process is reported electronically, which is very convenient." Zhou Yangshen said.

03丨The processing industry is full of vitality

"Since Best Logistics completed the first batch of 9610 export physical goods business after the comprehensive trial zone was approved on June 17 last year, it has so far entered 18 cross-border e-commerce companies, and 6 cross-border e-commerce companies have successfully launched business. Last year, the total value of cross-border e-commerce imports and exports was 150 million yuan." said Wang Qiyun, section chief of the Cross-border Cooperation Bureau of Guangxi Pingxiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone.

The rapidly expanding cross-border e-commerce business has enabled the existing venues to operate at full capacity. In addition, due to the narrowness of the original customs clearance equipment, the goods cannot be passed after the new business is launched, and it is imperative to build a new cross-border e-commerce supervision center. Not far from the supervision center, the cross-border e-commerce public customs clearance center has been basically completed. The customs clearance center covers an area of 17,063 square meters, invests 32 million yuan, and builds 3 precision sorting lines to meet the needs of 9710 and 9810 B2B export business. It can handle 300,000 cross-border e-commerce shipments per day.

Complete infrastructure and convenient customs clearance have enabled Pingxiang to quickly form six major trading centers of mahogany furniture, hardware and electrical machinery, textiles and garments, fruits and vegetables, Chinese herbal medicines, and mineral products, providing abundant raw materials for the development of border processing industries.

Sannuo Cross-border Electronics Industry Demonstration Park is jointly funded and constructed by Pingxiang City Government Platform Company and Sannuo Group. It mainly produces core products such as electronic information, intelligent manufacturing, and intelligent health, as well as precision parts, deep-processing mechanism parts and other supporting parts products. The reporter saw a scene where every second counts.

"After the project is fully completed, it will provide 20,000 jobs. Our goal is to achieve'domestic and foreign linkages, import and export simultaneously', and create an important platform for international production capacity cooperation and Chinese companies''going global'." Sannuo Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. Said Zhang Mingyuan, manager of the company's administrative department.

The fruit processing industry is also developing rapidly in the pilot zone. Fruits imported through Pingxiang Port alone accounted for nearly half of the country's total imported fruits, and imported tropical fruits from Southeast Asia accounted for nearly three-quarters of the country's total. Using imported resources for on-the-ground processing, industrial clusters with snack food and agricultural product processing industries as the core are gradually built from scratch.

As of October 2020, the Pingxiang Pilot Zone has accumulatively added 103 port trade processing enterprises above designated size, and the total output value of the port trade processing industry has exceeded 30 billion yuan.