Cambodia (Chengdu) Commercial Center officially opened China (Sichuan) ASEAN Center to build a new flagship open to the country

Cover reporter Liu Qiufeng intern Zhao Danni

On July 13, the Cambodian (Chengdu) Business Center officially opened, and Ms. Wang, a citizen of Chengdu, received the first Cambodian business visa issued by the center. Whether it is a business visa or a tourist visa, it only takes two or three working days to handle the time.

Cambodia (Chengdu) Commercial Center is one of the institutions settled in China (Sichuan) ASEAN Center (hereinafter referred to as ASEAN). In the future, there are also special projects such as the "Cross -border Cargo Trading Center" and "Cross -border E -commerce Overseas Marketing Platform".

The opening ceremony site

Visa services, logistics services, marketing services ... In the center of ASEAN, characteristic and advantageous resources are accelerating.

It is reported that the ASEAN Center, which is aimed at the ASEAN trillion market, is accelerating the layout in Shuangliu District, Chengdu. By 2025, Double Stream strives to build the ASEAN Center as a new flagship project to open to ASEAN to the public. The amount of 20 billion yuan is added to build an important fulcrum for Chengdu to build a foreign exchange center in the west and the construction of a new inland open economy.

Opening site: issue the first Cambodian business visa

At the opening ceremony, Cambodia (Chengdu) Business Center issued the first business visa for Cambodia.

"It's really convenient to apply for a visa at the entrance of Chengdu '" Home Gate "!" Ms. Wang told reporters with a visa that she worked in a foreign trade enterprise in Chengdu and used to visit Cambodia before. It has a long processing time and the risk of personal information leakage.

Last Friday, Ms. Wang spent only about half an hour to fill in the application form at the Puzhai (Chengdu) Business Center. On Monday, she received a notice from receiving a visa.

The center issued the first Cambodian business visa

"Under normal circumstances, our visa application time only needs two or three days." Li Yutong, general manager of the Cambodian (Chengdu) Business Center, told reporters that the business center provided the convenient service channel for Cambodia's business visa and tourist visa, and obtained the Cambodian in Kunming The authorization of the Consulate General and the joint recognition of the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce.

The specific process is that after the applicant submitted the material in the center, the center conducted a preliminary review of the material and submitted the material points to the Cambodian Consulate General in Kunming, and there was no additional service fee. "In the early stage, the application materials were mailed to Kunming. The next step will be opened online electronic application channels."

In addition, Li Yutong also said that the center is actively connected with official channels, hoping to provide business and visa services in more ASEAN countries such as Laos and Vietnam.

The staff guides the applicant to fill in the visa information

Value value -added service: provide services such as business negotiation, product display and other services

"In addition to the visa on agency, the functions of the business center are more focused on the word" commerce ", which can provide a lot of value -added services." Li Yutong told reporters that the business center plans to use sea railways and air and railway to transport Special products are promoted in Sichuan, and also provide online and offline services for outstanding products in western China in Cambodia, and can also help outstanding companies in Sichuan and even western China to invest in ASEAN countries to invest and promote the economic and trade development of both parties.

The Commercial Center also plans to build a Cambodian National Exhibition Hall to display ASEAN specialty products that meet the national import standards, as well as export products such as mechanical and electrical and manufacturing invested by Sichuan enterprises in ASEAN.

At this event, a "ASEAN Conference" was also held. Representatives such as foreign trade enterprises from ASEAN, Cambodia (Chengdu), and Chengdu Shuangliu Empty Rail International Union Port gathered together to discuss the development opportunities of ASEAN.

"Looking forward to the future, Sichuan -Cambodia cooperation is promising and promising." Zhang Tao, deputy director of the Sichuan Foreign Affairs Office and a first -level inspector, said at the scene that Sichuan -Cambodia has frequent interaction, close exchanges, and good exchanges and cooperation. The direct flight from Chengdu to Phnom Penh is one of the few international space bridges that have never been interrupted under the epidemic.

Featured project: "Grand Cross -border Cargo Trading Center" intends to be listed

In the ASEAN Center, more and more enterprises and institutions have brought together, and they all target the ASEAN market. In the Chengdu Shuangliu Aviation Economic Zone centralized signing and starting ceremony in March this year, 5 projects settled in the ASEAN Center, namely Cambodia (Chengdu) Commercial Center, International Music Art Hotel, Tai Chi O2O International Education Sensory Center, Fighting Hi Online Games R & D center and cross -border e -commerce overseas marketing platform operation. Now, the company that looks at ASEAN business opportunities has added another one: Chengdu Shuangliu Empty Rail International Union Transport Port.

"We have planned to be listed on the Cross -border Cargo Trading Center at the ASEAN Center." Zheng Shuangli, deputy general manager of Chengdu Airport Modern Service Industry Development Co., Ltd., said that with the advantages of international logistics channels to drive the construction of foreign trade platforms, the air -rail joint transport port will provide the "international class international class Column+finance+information+trade "full supply chain integration service. On the one hand, the trading center "extends" logistics services to the "door of the house" of the ASEAN Center, and on the other hand, it can introduce more foreign trade enterprises for dual streams.

For example, Zheng Shuangli said that a foreign trade enterprise in Yunnan has an import and export business in Southeast Asia, and is using an international train in the air -rail joint transport port. The company is planning to set up branches in the ASEAN Center, and its annual trade amount is initially estimated to be 30,000 to 400 million yuan.

Nuggets ASEAN: By 2025, it will drive Chengdu's import and export transaction volume to ASEAN 10 billion yuan

According to data from the Ministry of Commerce, China -ASEAN trade volume hit a record high in 2021, reaching 878.2 billion US dollars, accounting for 14.5%of China's total foreign trade. ASEAN has become China's largest trading partner for two consecutive years. The trade structure continues to optimize, and the industrial chain supply chain connection is more closely linked. As of the end of 2021, China and ASEAN have a total two -way investment of about 300 billion US dollars.

Focusing on Chengdu, from the 2021 foreign trade situation announced by Chengdu Customs, in 2021, Chengdu's import and export to the United States was 188.4 billion yuan, an increase of 15.1%, accounting for 22.9%. 20.3%; the import and export of the EU 16.218 billion yuan, an increase of 11.6%, accounting for 19.7%.

It is not difficult to see from these data that ASEAN is important to Chengdu's foreign trade economy.

"We will build a strategic platform for all -round exchanges and cooperation with ASEAN countries in terms of economy, culture, tourism, and education, as well as a new highland for integration and transformation of ASEAN resources." The relevant person in charge of Shuangliu District, Chengdu said that Shuangliu will further grasp the south direction southward Expansion opportunities, by 2025, will become a new flagship open to the outside world to ASEAN, driving Chengdu's newly increased transactions to ASEAN import and export transactions of 10 billion yuan.

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【About ASEAN Center】

In October 2018, China (Sichuan) -SESE Free Trade Cooperation Center settled in the Chengdu High -tech Comprehensive Free Trade Zone Shuangliu Park International Commodity Exhibition Center.

Subsequently, in June 2020, Shuangliu District signed a cooperation agreement with Shanghai China Eastern Airlines Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Chengdu Ransion Company to learn from its successful cases of Shanghai Eastern Airlines Binjiang Center, Shanghai Hongqiao Youle Comprehensive Center, and used China Eastern Asset Management Company to be good at bonded ports. The experience experience of aviation upstream and downstream asset management and coastal high -quality corporate resources of the area and airport regions jointly build the China (Sichuan) -ASEAN Free Trade Cooperation Center.

The center highlights the starting point of Chengdu as the starting point of the Southern Silk Road and the national "Belt and Road" important node function. It will promote a group of export -oriented enterprises with independent brands, higher popularity and strong market expansion capabilities to develop the ASEAN market, guide ASEAN culture, and guide ASEAN culture and Energy, education, medical care, business and other advantageous resources gather.

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