As the world's 15 largest container port, Xiamen Port connects China with other BRICS countries in close economic and trade exchanges. According to Xiamen Port Authority and Xiamen Port Holding Group, as of the first half of this year, Xiamen Port had three BRICS routes, reaching Vladivostok, Cape Town and Mondra, India. * * * The container throughput is about 654.38 million TEUs, with a year-on-year increase of over 654.38+000%, which has reached the total traffic volume of BRICS routes last year.
On April 2 1 day, a Central European (Xiamen) train loaded with goods worth US$ 362,000 departed from Xiamen Haicang Free Trade Zone and arrived in Kuntsevo, Moscow after 14 days. Compared with the past, the goods from Xiamen and its surrounding areas arrived in Russia through multimodal transport, which shortened 12 days. As of July, China-Europe (Xiamen) trains have loaded 150 trains and * * * transported 4 149 40-foot containers, with a cumulative value of about 2.205 billion yuan.
The tentacles of BRICS cooperation have penetrated into various fields. According to statistics, granite stones imported from BRICS countries account for 78.96% of the weight and 75.64% of the value of granite stones imported from Xiamen Port. Xiamen's exports of mechanical and electrical products to BRIC countries have increased substantially. In the first seven months of this year, the export was 4.065438 billion yuan, up 47.2% year-on-year, and the LCD panel alone increased by 1.9 times year-on-year. Xiamen's traditional labor-intensive products exported to BRIC countries continued to rebound, with clothing increasing by 20.4% and footwear increasing by 15.4%.
Since China became a BRICS president country, new business opportunities are brewing.
At the beginning of August, the BRICS Economic and Trade Ministers' Meeting approved the BRICS E-commerce Cooperation Initiative, and decided to set up a BRICS E-commerce Working Group to comprehensively start the cooperation process and effectively strengthen pragmatic cooperation such as policy sharing and capacity building. Xiamen cross-border e-commerce industrial park saw business opportunities. Today, Xiamen's cross-border e-commerce platform is seizing the opportunity to promote regional transformation and industrial upgrading, aiming at achieving the strategic goal of "buying the world and selling it".
As a native of Xiamen, Huang Quanxi, general manager of Xiamen Jijia Logistics Co., Ltd., paid special attention to the BRICS Business Forum. In his view, if there is communication, there is opportunity. The forum will bring tangible benefits to Xiamen in investment, finance and trade, and promote the transformation and upgrading of Xiamen's entire industry.