Why is Zhejiang Aquatic Products best -selling global?

Source: Agricultural and Rural Ministry of Trade Promotion Center

Author: Zhang Ying

Zhejiang is located in the southeast coast of China and south of the Yangtze River Delta. It has a long history of fishery and is a large maritime province and fishery province in China. For more than ten years, Zhejiang has made full use of the advantages of resources and accelerated the construction of strong marine provinces. The development momentum of the aquatic industry and aquatic products has been in good momentum. The marine economy has become an important economic growth pole in Zhejiang.

Fishery has a good foundation and rich fishery resources. The waters of Zhejiang are 260,000 square kilometers. The length of the coastline and the number of islands ranks first in the country. It has 10041 fishing grounds and one of the four major fishing grounds in the world. The province has 9 national marine pasture demonstration zones and 10 spawning field protection areas, and planned and constructed 14 national fishing port economic zones. In 2020, the total output of Zhejiang's fishery economy was 222.40 billion yuan, the fishery output value was 113.36 billion yuan, accounting for 1/3 of agricultural output value of 1/3. In 20121, the total output of aquatic products in Zhejiang Province was 6.288 million tons, of which the aquaculture output was 2.657 million tons, and the domestic maritime fishing output was 25.99 million tons.

Ocean fisheries started early and have a leading advantage in China. Zhejiang is one of the founding provinces of Ocean Fisheries. It has 43 enterprises with ocean fishery qualifications of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Ministry. , Rank first in the country. Zhejiang actively expands ocean fishery cooperation, and the advantages of the Gonghai and Oceanic operations are obvious. The cross -ocean operation is distributed in 10 countries in Southeast Asia. Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, has the first national ocean fishery base approved in the country, and is also the country's largest ocean squid production base, product distribution center and industrial agglomeration area.

Aquatic products are rich in exports, and the export scale ranks among the forefront of the country. There are more than 150 types of aquatic products in Zhejiang Province. Canned tuna, frozen squid products, cotton and cotton products, shrimp products, barracus, caviar, etc. are loved by international consumers. In recent years, the total trade in Zhejiang's aquatic products has risen steadily. In 2021, the export volume of aquatic products was 1.85 billion US dollars, ranking second in the country. In 2021, the export volume was 451,000 tons, of which seafish exported the most, and the export volume reached 328,000 tons, accounting for about 73%of the total export volume.

The export market of aquatic products is diverse, and export trade covers a wide coverage. Zhejiang aquatic products are sold well in the world. In 2021, they exported to more than 130 countries and regions. There were 56 countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”. There are 31 countries and regions with an export of aquatic products of more than $ 10 million, with 37 US $ 1 million to $ 10 million, of which exports to Japan, Spain, South Korea, the United States and other countries exceed 100 million US dollars. The top 10 exports of the exports account for 73.1%of the province's total exports.

Data source: China Customs and Zhejiang Agricultural Foreign Cooperation Center

In recent years, affected by various factors such as the global outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the overlapping of various factors such as the global outbreak and the rise of trade protectionism, Zhejiang aquatic products trade faces unprecedented challenges. The competent authorities of the Zhejiang Agriculture and Rural Department and other industries actively took the initiative to take the platform and measure them together to help enterprises receive orders, markets, and insured shares, and promote the steady development of aquatic products exports.

With the exhibition as the media, organize the online and offline exhibition. From 2020 to 2021, Zhejiang successfully hosted 15 exports of exports of agricultural products online trading, and more than 120 aquatic companies accurately dock with buyers from more than 20 countries and regions; organized nearly 90 water production export companies to participate in multiple international agricultural product lines In the next exhibition, it has formed a good reputation in the international aquatic product market; dozens of aquatic companies in Zhejiang have participated in the world's largest aquatic professional exhibition for many years -China International Fisheries Expo. , Pass to the world for positive signals for the development of the recovery of Zhejiang water industry.

Talk together to carry out "cloud exchange" of fisheries. During the new crown epidemic, Zhejiang successfully held a series of "cross -ocean · Meeting Zhejiang" cloud exchange series, and successively organized "China Zhejiang · Green Nada Fisheries Development Cloud Exchange Meeting" "Zhejiang · Nagasaki County Science and Technology Fisheries and Aquatic Products Exchange Clouds The activities such as the meeting further deepened the international exchanges and cooperation of aquatic products, and the Ambassador to the Green Nada for this dedicated to this.

Innovate platforms to cultivate new momentum of foreign trade growth. The Zhejiang International Agricultural Products (Aquatic Products) Trade Center and the physical market were completed, and the Chinese Ocean Squid Trading Center was landed. Build an e -commerce innovation and entrepreneurial park and improve online and offline transactions. The "Ocean Cloud" supply chain online service platform has been built, and the Chinese ocean squid index is continuously released to improve the international competitiveness of the industry.

Delivery to help companies relieve difficulties. Zhejiang organizes the "three -united, three -off and three implementation" activities and the "369" action in the province. Hong Kong, contact the difficulties of corporate cash flow, and do everything possible to relieve difficulties for the enterprise.

(Author unit: Zhejiang Agricultural Foreign Cooperation Center)

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