Recently, according to the Notice of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce on Issuing Details of Subsidies for Import Discount Matters in Zhejiang Province in 2021, five enterprises in pinghu city obtained 761 yuan of subsidies for import discount in 2021..050 thousand yuan, the amount of subsidies ranked second in Jiaxing five counties and two districts, and fourth in Zhejiang Province.
In recent years, pinghu city has attached great importance to the development of trade import business, supported and helped foreign trade enterprises to standardize their development, optimized the structure of imported goods, made the import platform bigger and stronger, and effectively promoted the healthy and orderly development of pinghu city’s trade import business. In 2020, due to the trade friction between COVID-19 and China, pinghu city’s import volume reached 172..700 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.8%, showing the strong resilience of pinghu city’s import business.
First, the advantages of the port smooth the import channel. Pinghu city is near Shanghai and the sea, and has several ports and ports such as Dushan Port and Zhapu Port. In the process of deepening integration into the Yangtze River Delta, pinghu city has continuously exerted its geographical advantages, accelerated port development and logistics system construction, and made new breakthroughs in port service and port collection and distribution system construction. In 2019, the foreign trade container transit business from Dushan Port to Yangshan Port was started, and a new route for goods from Pinghu to Yangshan Port was opened in the mode of “water-water transit”, which shortened the customs clearance time and tax refund cycle. The fastest time for goods to be exported from Dushan Port to Yangshan Port was 20 hours. In January this year, Terminal A4 of Dushan Port Area’s liquid bulk cargo area was opened to the outside world, and passed the joint acceptance of the Provincial Port Office, Hangzhou Customs, Zhejiang Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station and Zhejiang Maritime Safety Administration, and officially obtained the qualification for opening to the outside world. The opening of the terminal project can effectively solve the bottleneck of the supply demand of chemical raw materials for port-facing enterprises in Dushan Port Area, and provide the main transportation channel for the supply of imported raw materials for the second phase of Dushan Energy in the rear tens of billions of enterprises.
Second, leading enterprises improve their leading effectiveness. During the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, pinghu city’s imports grew at an average annual rate of 17%, and its total imports ranked first in the province. Pinghu city actively introduces leading enterprises in the industry, and in 2020, there will be 20 enterprises importing over 100 million yuan. Pinghu city mainly imports chemical raw materials, equipment and spare parts. In the field of chemical resources, Dushan Energy and satellite energy play a leading role. In 2020, Dushan Energy imported 51..500 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.8 times, ranking 29th in the province, and becoming the main growth pole of pinghu city’s imports. The total annual import of satellite energy is 40..300 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.69%, ranking 34th in the province in terms of imports. Paper-making enterprises have actively responded to the call of the national waste restriction policy, focused on optimizing the production capacity layout, and changed from waste paper import to pulp import. Focusing on the global layout, Jingxing Enterprise has set up a company in Malaysia to process waste paper into pulp and then import it to supply the production needs of enterprises.
Third, the imported platform has been continuously introduced and upgraded. Focus on pinghu city’s three major import clusters, namely, Pinghu Economic and Technological Development Zone imports high-end equipment and key parts, Dushangang Town imports chemical raw materials and bulk commodities, and Xindai Town imports consumer goods, so as to continuously improve the service level of the platform and attract more imported enterprises. Since its construction, Pinghu International Import Commodity City has played the role of a bridge connecting international suppliers and importers. Foreign importers and domestic buyers can seamlessly connect here, so that people in the Yangtze River Delta region and even the whole country can enjoy good quality and cheap goods. In 2020, it was awarded as a provincial import platform. At the Central and Eastern Europe Expo and the International Consumer Goods Expo held in June this year, Pinghu International Commodity Import City, as a key import platform in the province, participated in the “Haitao Hui” exhibition area of international imported goods in Zhejiang, and continued to gain popularity through the exhibition. Pinghu city has been continuously exploring ways to enhance the platform efficiency upgrade, and actively doing a good job in the declaration of key import platforms for Dushan energy and satellite energy. At the same time, pinghu city actively undertakes the spillover effect of China International Import Expo(CIIE), and organizes enterprises to participate in procurement through the exhibition platform, so that enterprises can seize more market opportunities and cooperation opportunities and continue to expand the advantages of pinghu city’s opening up.
The fourth is to strengthen supervision and improve service level. Strengthen the cooperation of departments, join hands with customs and other departments to implement various customs clearance facilitation measures, especially according to the trade characteristics of pinghu city, do a good job in processing trade and advanced equipment import services, guide enterprises to do a good job in import tax exemption and supervision, and strive to improve the level of advanced equipment. Actively carry out the declaration of import discount interest, and strive for foreign trade support funds from higher levels. From 2017 to 2019, we won the national import discount interest of 6.54 million, ranking among the top in Jiaxing, effectively exerting the important role of import in promoting economic structure balance and transformation and upgrading, and enhancing the independent innovation ability of enterprises. We will earnestly provide special credit support for the development of foreign trade enterprises, and actively explore the tripartite cooperation model of “government+bank+insurance” to help enterprises cope with the uncertain risks of import and export and ease their financing difficulties. Give further play to the supporting role of financial institutions in import trade, expand the scale and scope of import trade financing, promote banks within their jurisdiction to adhere to the concept of “local currency first”, promote the cross-border use of RMB, increase the share and scale of cross-border RMB settlement of import enterprises, and serve import trade and the real economy.
(Contributed by Jiaxing Municipal Bureau of Commerce)