Yangcheng Evening News reporter Chen Zeyun, Xu Yue, sun Qi, man hang Ying
The work report of the provincial government in 2022 pointed out that the "top ten projects" for high-quality trade development should be deeply implemented. One belt, one road, one ASEAN market, will be implemented.
"When RCEP (regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement) was implemented this year, Guangdong seized this opportunity, which can be said to be the 'outline' of stabilizing foreign trade." Said Chen Wanling, director of the international economic and Trade Research Center of Guangdong University of foreign studies.
The relevant person in charge of the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province said that with the effective implementation of RCEP, the textile and garment industry and light manufacturing industry in the province will face a new opportunity period, the automobile and cross-border e-commerce industry will usher in a new round of good, the iron ore, port shipping, logistics, machinery, textile and clothing, furniture and other industries will continue to benefit, and the transportation and communication, Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) and other industries may attract more foreign investment.
RCEP has become an important starting point for Guangdong's stable foreign trade
On January 1, in Zhanjiang, Guangdong issued the first agricultural RCEP order, with 6 containers full of Guangdong prefabricated vegetables "going out" to Australia and Singapore; In Nansha, sadoma (Guangzhou) Chemical Co., Ltd. won the first certificate of origin under RCEP, and the cost of acrylate raw materials imported from Japan will be reduced... After RCEP came into force as scheduled, it promoted customs clearance convenience and tariff reduction, and became an important starting point for Guangdong's stable foreign trade.
As of the morning of January 18, Guangdong's trade promotion system had issued 314 RECP certificates of origin, involving an export FOB (FOB) amount of US $18.3144 million, helping enterprises reduce and exempt tariffs of about US $1.83 million.
"RCEP will help Guangdong's traditional industries realize transformation and upgrading through cross-border e-commerce, expand the Southeast Asian market and promote Guangdong products to go abroad." The relevant person in charge of Guangzhou Customs told reporters that the implementation of RCEP will accelerate the high-quality development of new business forms of cross-border e-commerce in Guangdong. Guangdong should optimize the port business environment, support the construction of overseas warehouses of cross-border e-commerce, and make full use of the advantages of developed manufacturing industry, rich supply chain and strong logistics foundation in Guangdong to help the traditional manufacturing industry "go to sea".
How to further enable the high-quality development of foreign trade? Xie song, deputy to the provincial people's Congress and vice chairman of the financial and Economic Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress, suggested that we should optimize the business environment of Guangzhou Shenzhen port, comprehensively improve the intelligent level of port, clean up and standardize port charges with high standards, and strengthen the supervision of port intermediary services. He also suggested that Guangdong should further optimize the allocation of seaport and airport resources in the Great Bay area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and speed up the construction of international logistics hubs.
"Guangdong flavor" opens a new sea route
It is worth noting that Guangdong is at the forefront of the country in the field of agricultural opening up. From January to October 2021, Guangdong's export volume of Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) was US $1.88 billion, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%, of which the export volume to Japan Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) increased by 32%. RCEP has spared no effort in opening up the agricultural field and proposed to gradually achieve the long-term goal of more than 90% Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) zero tariff in the region. Riding the east wind of RCEP, "Guangdong flavor" is opening a new route.
To connect with the international market, we should first show our trump card. Guangdong took the lead in playing the sign of prefabricated dishes. DAHAO fish balls, bullfrogs... Recently, Guanhai aquatic products, a leading enterprise of Shantou Haojiang aquatic products provincial modern agricultural industrial park, officially shipped and exported 40 tons of aquatic prefabricated vegetables to RCEP member countries and the United States.
Xu Yu, a deputy to the provincial people's Congress from Haojiang District, told reporters that Haojiang's aquatic industry has obvious advantages. In 2020, the total output value of fishery economy in Haojiang District accounted for more than 60% of the total agricultural output value of the whole region.
"Many overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia miss this hometown flavor." Xu Yu suggested that we should speed up the building of Haojiang aquatic product brand and brand Empowerment under the background of new outlets for prefabricated dishes and new opportunities for RCEP.
In addition to prefabricated dishes, more high-quality Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) in Guangdong are also actively going to sea. In November 2021, Deqing, Guangdong, took the lead in promoting the implementation and operation of RCEP citrus procurement and trading center. Last December, deqinggong citrus was exported to RCEP member Canada for the first time, and then successively exported to Germany, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries by ship and air.
It is reported that in order to actively grasp RCEP opportunities and actively respond to RCEP challenges, Guangdong has launched the "ten action plans for docking RCEP in the agricultural field", so as to make full use of China's international markets and resources, promote Guangdong's Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) , investment and trade "going global", promote the transformation and upgrading of Guangdong's agricultural industry, and improve the position of Guangdong's agriculture in the global industrial chain.
