Ningbo’s foreign trade “riding the wind and waves” has recently added a potential growth point.
On November 30th, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Public Security jointly issued a notice to further expand the regional scope of second-hand car export business. This is not only an innovative business of “stabilizing foreign trade”, but also an important way to promote the upgrading of automobile consumption.
The areas where the used car export business has been expanded this time include Tangshan City, Hebei Province, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, Erdos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, Changchun City, Jilin Province, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, Yiwu City, Anhui Province, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, Yichun City, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Haikou City, Chongqing City, Hainan Province.
At present, Ningbo enterprises have made preparations for the export of used cars. Zhongningbo Group is the city’s import and export champion in the first three quarters of this year. It also owns more than 20 automobile 4S shops in Ningbo, as well as Zhongji Automobile City, a well-known used car market. Zhou Fangjun, assistant to the chairman of the company, said: “The development of used car export business is expected to add a product to our international trade business. Next, China Foundation will make good use of this opportunity, relying on the company’s existing domestic used car trading market and professional automobile import and export team to do the preliminary work with the linkage support of government departments. “
Zhou Fangjun believes that in the next 3-5 years, the export of used cars will usher in a huge market share. On the one hand, with the improvement of domestic living standards, there is still room for growth in car ownership, and the scale of the subsequent used cars will become increasingly saturated; On the other hand, some Southeast Asian countries and countries along the “the belt and road initiative” have the market demand for vehicles, which will erupt after long-term cultivation.
The data shows that in 2019, China’s used car exports totaled 3,036 vehicles, though the number is small but the potential is unlimited. “This is a very important policy, which will bring benefits to Ningbo’s next export expansion. We can take this opportunity to occupy a place in the global used car circulation system; At the same time, many used cars themselves have certain value. Instead of applying for scrapping, it is better to continue to play its transportation function through exports. ” The relevant person in charge of the Foreign Trade Management Office of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Commerce analyzed.
In the person in charge’s view, Ningbo has some unique advantages in developing the export of used cars. First, the export of whole vehicles has high requirements for the infrastructure of the port, and Ningbo Port just has a solid family background. Secondly, Ningbo not only has the advantages of the whole vehicle industry chain, but also has the agglomeration effect of used cars, and it is an open economy city. However, opportunities always coexist with challenges: “China’s second-hand car export sector has just started, and everyone has to cross the river by feeling the stones. For example, how to ensure the quality of used car exports? How to establish a traceability system and implement the main responsibility? How to give full play to competitive advantage and minimize unfavorable factors? … These are the topics and tests that we are facing. “
This article is reproduced. If there is any infringement, please let us know and it will be deleted at the first time!
(Contributed by Ningbo Municipal Commission of Commerce)