Recently, in the face of global economic recession and slowing market demand, in the new stage of epidemic prevention and control, Zhejiang began to organize foreign trade enterprises to go abroad to participate in economic and trade activities. It is estimated that about 10000 foreign trade enterprises will participate. Many business departments in Zhejiang collectively led the team, and chartered flights led foreign trade enterprises to go out to sea to find the market to grab orders.
Encourage and support enterprises to "go out and grab orders"
According to the Zhejiang Daily, on February 5th, Zhejiang 1 1 districts and cities optimized and adjusted the policies and measures for epidemic prevention and control, and at the same time almost simultaneously promoted the action of "Thousands of enterprises grab the single market to expand the market" to stabilize the economy. This is a collective action and team battle led by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce and attended by commercial departments all over the province to lead foreign trade enterprises to find markets and grab orders. It is estimated that 1000 delegations and 10000 foreign trade enterprises will participate in the exhibition.
This action is the first overseas business activity organized by Zhejiang at the provincial level since the outbreak of the epidemic, and there are only a handful in the country.
Beijing News reporter learned from Jiaxing Municipal Bureau of Commerce that on the morning of February 4th, 65438 business charter organized by Jiaxing set sail from Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou and went to Tokyo, Japan, for a 7-day business activity of10-February 4th-June 4th, and participated in the AFF exhibition in Japan, and carried out business inspection, investigation and investment promotion activities. There are 50 companies and 96 people in this charter flight, including 8 merchants. It is the largest municipal foreign trade charter exhibition group in China this year.
On the same day, the main leaders of Jiaxing Municipal Bureau of Commerce also led a team to Germany and France for a six-day investment promotion tour in Europe. During the delegation's visit, Diheke said that it was the first time to receive a delegation from China after the outbreak, which was of great significance. He looked forward to the resumption of cooperation and contact between the two sides due to the epidemic, and said that he would focus on promoting Jiaxing to member enterprises for economic and trade negotiations and investment cooperation.
Jiaxing commercial charter flights "grab orders"
On February 2nd, 65438, in Ningbo, a trillion-dollar city of foreign trade, the Ningbo Municipal Government held a mobilization meeting of "Hundred Groups and Thousand Enterprises" to expand the market, encouraging enterprises to seize the opportunity to go out and expand the market. Take April 2023 as the stage node, and strive to organize overseas market expansion delegations with more than 100 people, enterprises with more than 1000 people, and outbound delegations with more than 1000 people. Through this action, Ningbo will strive to obtain new foreign trade orders of $654.38+0 billion, increase the area of overseas warehouses by 200,000 square meters, help Chinese investment reach $2 billion for filing in the whole year, and actually utilize foreign capital of $4 billion.
In fact, as early as July this year 10, Ningbo took the lead in opening the first foreign-related business round-trip charter flight to expand the market after the epidemic, helping foreign trade enterprises go global. Jim Xun reporter learned from Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Commerce that Ningbo has organized two batches of commercial charter flights with a total service of 600 passengers and an order amount of US$ 2 billion.
Subsequently, Hangzhou, Taizhou, Yiwu, Zhejiang, etc. Business charter flights have been organized to help local enterprises "go out" and foreign enterprises "come in".
The province's dependence on foreign trade is as high as nearly 50%
Why are you eager to encourage enterprises to go out and "expand the market" and "grab orders"?
Zhejiang Daily reported that Zhejiang's dependence on foreign trade is as high as nearly 50%, and Zhejiang's economy is facing a severe test under the epidemic. Affected by the epidemic, many domestic foreign trade enterprises have had a hard time in these three years.
Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Commerce pointed out earlier this month that at present, Ningbo's foreign trade enterprise index has been below the threshold of 50% for six consecutive weeks, and its exports to the United States have fallen by more than 10% for three consecutive months. At the same time, due to the limited investment activities at home and abroad, the impact of merchants' visits to Nanjing has been significantly reduced, and the reserves of foreign-funded projects in Ningbo are insufficient, and the contractual utilization of foreign capital has decreased by more than 20% year-on-year. The implementation of "Hundred Groups and Thousands of Enterprises" will expand the market and attract people, which will help improve the quality of offline communication, promote the competition of business and economic indicators with the city's economic and trade cooperation and exchanges, and further stabilize the open economic base market.
"After the last charter tour, foreign trade enterprises have a high voice. Judging from the overall foreign trade situation, we all need to go out. " Fei Jianming, director of the Foreign Trade Promotion Department of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Commerce, as the head of the first foreign-related business charter group in China, said in an interview with reporters a few days ago.
Recently, a team composed of relevant leaders from Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce and other provincial departments has started a six-day trip to Europe. This is the first time that Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce has led a delegation to go abroad. Lin Li, secretary-general of the delegation, expressed the hope that government departments would take the lead in going abroad and send more positive signals to enterprises, so that enterprises would be more confident and willing to take the initiative to go abroad in the new year and gain more opportunities to compete and cooperate with their international counterparts.
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They flew to Europe! The charter flight "grabbing the single group" is not limited to Zhejiang.
"Orders and customers are expected to be kept."
Text | Wang Zhongyun
In the early morning of February 4, 65438, before it was completely bright, the chill of Shanghai in winter came. A team composed of relevant leaders and business representatives from Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce and other provincial departments drove to Pudong Airport. Compared with the cold weather, people were enthusiastic and started a six-day trip to Germany and France.
In the video, despite wearing a mask, you can still see the excitement of the members. At the airport, someone held a banner that read "Grab the bill at sea" and "Help enterprises grab the bill". The pictures were posted on the Internet, which quickly triggered a heated discussion. People have been unable to go out for a long time, and this atmosphere is more infectious.
Video screenshot Source: E-commerce magazine
The charter flight to Europe was led by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce, and the government took the lead in linking enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions and conduct business negotiations. The trip to Europe is the first stop of "Thousands of enterprises expand the market and grab orders". Song Jianli, a staff member, said, "This is the first time in the province that the government has organized a delegation to help enterprises participate in the exhibition and help enterprises grab more orders!"
Not only in Zhejiang, but also in Jiangsu, Sichuan and other places recently, the government led a delegation to the sea to "grab the bill". What are the details behind "grabbing orders"?
The government has become a "logistics group"
How should we treat the "grabbing group" organized by Zhejiang provincial government in Europe at present? "Zhejiang Daily" said, "This team is the first team led by the Provincial Department of Commerce to go abroad in the three years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic."
According to Zhejiang Daily, the German delegation will participate in the European Exhibition of Food Raw Materials and Healthy Raw Materials, visit overseas key business associations, expand Zhejiang's foreign trade with Germany, France and other major EU countries, and expand bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
In the future, Zhejiang Province will organize more than 10000 enterprises to participate in economic and trade activities abroad through charter flights and joint flights.
Zhejiang Province launched the activity of "Thousands of Enterprises Expand the Market and Grab Orders". Source: People's Network
Almost at the same time that the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce led a team to Europe, the Jiaxing Municipal Government of Zhejiang Province, composed of 96 people, set off for Hangzhou and then flew to Japan.
In addition to foreign businessmen from Jiaxing, Ningbo and Huzhou, this "robbery group" also has a "logistics group" composed of Jiaxing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Publicity Office and Municipal Prevention and Control Office. They will attend the AFF textile and clothing exhibition in Japan and discuss new projects with well-known local companies.
Three years after the epidemic, Kenneth Ma, the chairman of Jiaxing Yihutong Import and Export Co., Ltd., was very excited: "There is hope that orders and customers will be saved."
In Ningbo, a mobilization meeting of "a hundred regiments and a thousand people" was held recently. Ningbo Municipal Government encourages foreign businessmen to go abroad for exhibitions and negotiations, helping enterprises to stabilize orders, expand markets, increase confidence and seize opportunities.
According to the deployment, Ningbo will take 10 this year to 165438+ in April next year as the stage node, and through the linkage of government and enterprises, it plans to attract more than 1000 delegations, 10000 enterprises and more than10000 foreign trade personnel to expand overseas markets.
Ningbo Business Charter Europe "grabs orders" Source: ningbo evening news
It can be seen that these "grabbing orders" cannot be separated from the support of the local government, and many government workers directly become "logistics groups".
According to Lin Li, secretary-general of Zhejiang businessmen's delegation to Europe, it was found in previous surveys that many enterprises are now worried about "going out", and government departments need to set an example and give enterprises confidence.
Under the influence of the epidemic, it is inevitable that enterprises will question it. In Jiaxing, in fact, as early as July, Jiaxing Municipal Bureau of Commerce began to plan charter flights to leave the country. At first, more than 80 companies signed up, but before long, many people gave up. "We are worried that the foreign epidemic is complicated and we are afraid that the return ticket will not be available." There is a company explanation.
In the end, Jiaxing combined with exhibitions and merchants from all over the country to enrich the exit modes such as charter flights and splicing machines, and opened an "air passage" for enterprises to grab orders and merchants. At the same time, coordinate the staff of relevant government departments with their counterparts in enterprises to deal with unexpected situations that may be encountered during travel.
This kind of joint efforts of government and enterprises to "grab orders" overseas is the epitome of Zhejiang, a major foreign trade province, actively responding in the current environment.
Sichuan, Guangdong and Jiangsu also have "big moves"
In fact, Jiangsu Province, a neighbor of Zhejiang Province, took action long before thousands of enterprises went to sea to "grab orders"
From June 5438+065438+1October 17 to 23 this year, Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce of Jiangsu Province organized a charter flight service to Japan. According to Suzhou Release, this is the first large-scale charter service organized by local government in China since the epidemic in 2020.
Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce organized a charter service to Japan.
Suzhou's charter flight to Japan consists of 12 investment promotion teams and 5 1 foreign trade enterprise leaders, with a total of 88 people. During their stay in Japan, the investment teams visited 62 enterprises and related institutions, held 3 exchange and promotion meetings, and reached 32 investment intention projects with an intentional investment of 6543.8+0.86 billion US dollars.
Foreign trade enterprises actively expand the market and grab orders, and * * * visited more than 200 Japanese customers. In the negotiations with Japanese-funded enterprises, Japanese businessmen generally showed great enthusiasm for meeting the economic and trade delegation of China local government for the first time after three years.
Some videos on the internet show that the atmosphere of these promotion meetings is quite warm. Many businesses admit that the epidemic in recent years has hindered the meeting and even cooperation between the two sides. The Suzhou government organized so many business leaders to come to Japan by charter flight to discuss cooperation, which also moved them very much.
In the end, Suzhou went to Japan to "grab a single group" and won a new order of over 654.38 billion yuan.
Some netizens in Jiangsu said, "This action and determination are great! Other cities have not responded yet. Suzhou has been to Japan to invest and is back, full of harvest! "
Comments from netizens
Tomorrow morning 1, Suzhou will provide charter service again and organize the investment team to go to Europe to "grab the order".
Similar to Zhejiang, the team going to Europe this time mainly went to France and Germany, and was led by the main person in charge of Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce. It is planned to have face-to-face exchanges and promotion meetings with fortune 500 companies, global industry leaders and internationally renowned financial institutions such as Siemens, Knohl, Fife and Caive Fund.
Seeing the operation in Suzhou, some netizens said that the original "Su Daqiang" has been quietly moved and acted.
Comments from netizens
In addition, not only the Yangtze River Delta, but also Sichuan and Guangdong in the Pearl River Delta are involved.
On February 5th, 65438, the business charter organized by Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce went to Europe to expand the market. Food, medicine, automobile, furniture, agricultural products and other industries 3 1 40 foreign trade enterprises flew to France, Germany and Italy for a 9-day economic and trade promotion activity.
Guangdong also organized a group to go to sea to grab orders.
In June this year, 5438+065438+ 10, Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce organized nearly 40 foreign trade enterprises 100 to take a charter flight to the Asia-Pacific region to participate in the Guangdong Commodity Fair and the Singapore Fair, helping foreign trade enterprises to grab orders, expand markets and build channels. 165438+ 10, a Shenzhen business charter group consisting of 43 people from 22 enterprises also rushed to Germany to participate in the MEDICA exhibition.
"Promote high-level opening up"
From the best-selling heating artifacts in Europe and America to 70% of the goods around Qatar 2022 in FIFA World Cup "Made in Yiwu", Zhejiang is a big foreign trade province. This time, tens of thousands of enterprises went out to sea to "grab orders", which is also in line with people's imagination of Zhejiang.
After the hot search on the "Grab the Single Group", many people expressed their envy of the business environment in Zhejiang.
In fact, whether in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong or Sichuan, the government set up a stage, enterprises sang operas, and government and enterprises joined hands to promote this series of business groups to "grab orders" in the near future. The government should take the lead in "doing its best to fight for the economy", and the people have more expectations for the government.
On February 6th, 65438, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held a meeting to analyze and study the economic work in 2023. Listen to the work report of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and study and deploy the work of building a clean and honest government and anti-corruption work in 2023. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party presided over the meeting.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to promote high-level opening to the outside world and increase efforts to attract and utilize foreign capital.
Now 2022 is coming to an end. In the coming new year, it is a positive signal full of hope that all provinces and cities will "grab the single group" and go to sea.
Reference: Zhejiang Daily, Suzhou Publishing, Suzhou Net and Famous Cities.