Recently, the Ministry of Commerce newly identified 105 national foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases in 2021, and 10 new bases were identified in Zhejiang. Among them, the newly increased number of our city accounts for 40% of the total number of the province, ranking first in the province, with a total of 19, accounting for 27% of the total number of the province, ranking first in the province.
The national foreign trade transformation and upgrading base is a platform for the organic integration of industry and trade, and an important carrier and handle for stabilizing foreign trade and promoting high-quality development of foreign trade. The total number and newly increased number of our city’s national foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases both rank first in the province, which not only makes a direct contribution to stabilizing foreign trade, but also plays an exemplary and leading role in the transformation and upgrading of national foreign trade.
As an export-oriented city, foreign trade is the “main carriage” that drives the economic growth of our city. At present, the traditional competitive advantage of low factor cost is weakening, the cost of comprehensive factors is rising rapidly, and the traditional labor-intensive foreign trade model with large import and export needs to be transformed and upgraded. The construction of foreign trade transformation and upgrading base conforms to the traditional advantages of our city’s industry and foreign trade development.
Benefiting from the solid industrial foundation and industrial clusters, over the years, our foreign trade export has formed a large number of commodity bases, such as clothing, textiles, stationery, kitchen supplies, hardware products, etc., and more than 100 kinds of products represented by energy-saving injection molding machines rank among the national “singles champions”. In the new development stage, if our city wants to transform from a big foreign trade city to a strong foreign trade city, we must accelerate the pace of foreign trade transformation and upgrading.
In this regard, our city should take the opportunity of creating a national foreign trade transformation and upgrading base, rely on the existing industrial advantages and development potential of the base, and take backbone enterprises as the core to expand the base’s industrial cluster, so as to provide strong industrial support for promoting the high-quality development of foreign trade. At the same time, we should give policy preference to capital, credit, export credit insurance, public service platform construction and other aspects, support the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade enterprises, take the road of high-quality development, turn from “thousands of troops” to “excellent troops and strong generals”, turn from “large imports and large exports” to “excellent imports and excellent exports”, and finally achieve a new round of leapfrog development of Ningbo’s foreign trade.
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(Contributed by Ningbo Municipal Commission of Commerce)