Observation on regional foreign trade development ｜ Various convenient measures to promote the continuous improvement of foreign trade in the Yangtze River Delta region

　　CCTV News:Since the beginning of this year, regional integration in the Yangtze River Delta has continuously improved the toughness and vitality of foreign trade. With the help of innovative logistics system and customs clearance facilitation, the Yangtze River Delta region has overcome the adverse effects brought by the epidemic and promoted the sustained and good development of foreign trade import and export.

　　At Jiangsu (Suzhou) International Railway Logistics Center, this train loaded with LCD, semiconductor and other commodities will be sent to Luchao Port in Shanghai and shipped to North America by sea. Here, "sea-rail combined transport" has become the norm. At the same time, in the absence of an airport, Suzhou copied the customs clearance mode of "sea-rail combined transport" with the logistics center as the front cargo terminal, and opened up a new channel of "land-air combined transport" to meet the air freight demand of enterprises.

　　The "land-air combined transport" train has also been normalized in Suzhou International Railway Logistics Center, and the daily delivery volume has remained at around 30 tons. At this point, the goods in the logistics center can go out by any combination of "road, railway, air and sea", attracting more and more enterprises from the Yangtze River Delta region to join in. At present, among more than 3,000 enterprises, enterprises outside Jiangsu account for nearly half.

　　The export of goods is more convenient, and many cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Shanghai have chosen Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places for customs clearance of imported goods. At Ningbo lishe airport International Cargo Terminal, Wang Wushan, the logistics manager of this cross-border e-commerce company in Shanghai, is receiving the goods that have just arrived from the United States. Wang Wushan told reporters that although the enterprise is in Shanghai, the innovative measures of cross-border e-commerce transit in the Yangtze River Delta region allow enterprises to quickly clear customs in Ningbo, and goods can be shipped directly from Ningbo, and users in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai can receive the parcel delivery information the next day.

　　Since the beginning of this year, Ningbo has undertaken many e-commerce businesses spilled from Shanghai and other places. For these imported goods, the local customs actively promoted the cross-border e-commerce transit business in the Yangtze River Delta region and opened various transit channels such as "air-to-air", "air-to-land" and "air-to-sea".

　　Various convenient measures have boosted the foreign trade in the Yangtze River Delta region to continue to improve. The data shows that in the first eight months, the growth rate of imports and exports in the Yangtze River Delta region was 1.5 percentage points higher than the national overall growth rate, and its contribution to the national foreign trade growth exceeded 40%, which provided strong momentum for stabilizing the foreign trade market.