China's ten years · China Story 丨 Guangxi: Expand the integration of regional integration for ASEAN

Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, September 27th. Question: Guangxi: Expand the integration of regional integration for ASEAN

Xinhua News Agency reporter

Ten years ago, China was not familiar with Thai durian, Vietnamese coffee, and Malaysian bird's nest. Today, more and more ASEAN products have entered China, and more and more Chinese technology and Chinese manufacturing have entered ASEAN.

The audience selected durian (taken on September 18) in the International Fruit Creative Life Exhibition area of ​​the East Expo. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua

The connection between Guangxi and the ASEAN countries is the forefront and important window for exchanges and cooperation between China and ASEAN countries. Over the years, Guangxi has accelerated the development of ASEAN for many years, seized the opportunity of regional comprehensive economic partnerships (RCEP), promoted China's-ASEAN economic and trade cooperation, and continued to accelerate the process of regional integration.

Based on the location advantage to expand the opening of ASEAN

Guangxi Beibu Gulf is a portal port for ASEAN. At the Qinzhou Port Pier in the center of Beibu Gulf, the exchanges between goods are becoming increasingly frequent. Data show that in the first half of this year, Qinzhou Port's import and export to ASEAN was 4.88 billion yuan, a year -on -year increase of 48%, of which imports and exports to Indonesia and Vietnam increased significantly.

A column of China and Vietnam trains into Qinzhou Port East Station (taken on September 14). Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Ailin, Zhang Ailin

At the Qinzhou Railway Container Center Station, the important hub node of the Western Land -China Channel Channel, domestic and foreign goods have continued.

"This year, we played the advantages of container intelligent loading and unloading professional fields, attracting international and domestic supply, and effectively promoted the effective connection between the Luhai New Channel trains and the China -EU trains." Said Wang Tiecheng, deputy general manager of China Railway United International Container Guangxi Co., Ltd.

According to statistics from China National Railway Group Co., Ltd., in the first eight months of this year, the Western Luhai New Channel Tiehai Lianlian Capital Cumulative transportation cargo was transported by 498,600 standards, an increase of 26.8%year -on -year, helping the industrial chain and supply chain along the passage.

In the past ten years, Guangxi has increased its infrastructure construction, further enhances the level of interconnection, and has injects new kinetic energy into regional economic and trade cooperation. The total import and export of foreign trade in ASEAN countries increased from 74.75 billion yuan in 2012 to 282.12 billion yuan in 2021, an average annual increase of 15.8%. The total import and export of the Guangxi border trade ranked first in the country for 7 consecutive years.

This is Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center, which was held on September 19. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua

East Expo: Promote the integrated construction of China ASEAN

Guangxi Nanning is a permanent place for China -ASEAN Expo. Since the first Eastern Expo in 2004, Guangxi has always been based on China -ASEAN cooperation to continuously promote the effective connection between the “Belt and Road” and “One Road”, actively serve the effective implementation of RCEP, and help build a closer China -ASEAN destiny community community. Essence

In 2004, the dealer of coffee in Zhongyuan, Vietnam, took the mentality of trying a try to participate in the first East Expo with coffee samples. Today, the brand's products have achieved bright sales performance at the East Expo for many years.

"The East Expo has strongly promoted our development in China. We already have more than 300 distributors in China. Our first coffee flagship store in China will also open in Shanghai this month." Li Wuqiang, director of sales, said.

On September 19, the audience visited the ASEAN and RCEP boutique exhibition area. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua

At the 19th East Expo held this year, the parties signed a total of 267 cooperation projects, with a total investment of 413 billion yuan, an increase of 37%over the previous session.

"The East Expo platform is essential for strengthening the commercial network and regional interconnection between enterprises, traders and investors in the region," said Lin Yuhui, Secretary -General of ASEAN.

The Philippine President Marcos said at the opening ceremony of the current East Expo. The video speech said that the East Expo strengthened the cooperation between China and ASEAN, and became the "test stone" for the Philippine products to enter the Chinese market and benefited many Philippine companies. He also said that he hopes to attract more Chinese companies to invest in the Philippines through the East Expo.

Small products from Malaysia are favored at the East Expo (taken on September 19). Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Ailin, Zhang Ailin

With the implementation of RCEP, the service platform of the East Expo has gradually expanded. Nakamuka Junichiro, vice chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of China and the general representative of Mitsubishi Commercial East Asia, said that under the RCEP framework, the East Expo is not only a platform for China-ASEAN communication, but also an important bridge for the exchange of RCEP countries.

High -quality implementation of RCEP to accelerate the construction of a cross -border industrial chain supply chain

On January 1 this year, RCEP officially took effect. Since 2021, Guangxi has successively introduced documents such as "Guangxi to Accelerate the Docking of RCEP's New Rules for Economic and Trade", carefully sorting out the existing industries in Guangxi, and proposing differentiated development policies to connect to different markets such as ASEAN and Japan and South Korea.

In the smelting workshop of the China South China Manganese Industry Group in Chongzuo, Guangxi, manganese ore was sold into the country and exported to Japan after being made into electrolytic manganese dioxide, and was eventually used as an important raw material for new energy batteries. The implementation of RCEP has taken effect, Malaysia's manganese tariffs dropped from 3%to 2.4%, making this industrial chain connecting China, ASEAN, and Japan more competitive in the international market.

"The company exports high -pure electrolytic metal manganese and other products to the Japanese market, and customers can enjoy 0.4%of import tariff reductions. As of September this year, the company has applied for more than 90 RCEP certificates in Japan and other places, which enhances product competitiveness "Li Jianjun, general manager of the marketing department of Nanfang Manganese Industry Group Co., Ltd. said. This is the Tieshan Port in Guangxi (taken on September 22). Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Xiaobang Photo

Thanks to the unique location advantage, Guangxi has developed a strong development to the sea economy. Relying on the Greater Port, industrial clusters such as green chemicals, equipment manufacturing, new energy and new materials, and forests and paper paper are integrated with ASEAN countries in terms of industrial chain and supply chain, showing a vigorous development.

Yang Chunting, director of the Business Department of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said that the Guangxi Free Trade Zone focused on key links such as manufacturing, trade, logistics, marketing, and services, and made every effort to promote the in -depth integration of the Guangxi Free Trade Pilot Zone to be deeply integrated into the ASEAN cross -border industrial chain and supply. Chain, value chain. (Reporter: Pan Qiang, Huang Haoming, Zhu Lili, Guo Yifan, Huang Yaomeng, Zhao Huan, Wang Jiawei, Liang Shun, Qin Guanghua, Huang Kaiying, Wang Wei)

Produced: Zhao Danping, Li Zhiang

Coordinating planning: Li Kai, Hou Dongtao, Yang Yong, Xia Xiaopeng

Produced by Xinhua News Agency International Communication integration platform

[Editor in charge: Wang Yan]

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