Embracing AI to Activate New Momentum for Foreign Trade Growth
The 139th Canton Fair is currently in full swing, and AI related exhibition halls and products have become the "traffic drivers" of this year's Canton Fair. As a barometer and indicator of China's foreign trade, every change in the Canton Fair reflects a new trend in industry development - actively embracing artificial intelligence has become a consensus among foreign trade enterprises.
The author believes that in the context of intensified external fluctuations and increasingly fierce industrial competition, anchoring AI to tap into growth potential is not only a necessary path for China's foreign trade transformation and upgrading, but also a key lever for cultivating new international competitive advantages. Next, all parties should better embrace AI and activate new drivers of foreign trade growth.
On the one hand, enterprises should actively embrace artificial intelligence and accelerate digital transformation.
According to the data, more than 61% of the exhibitors in this Canton Fair have applied new technologies such as industrial Internet and artificial intelligence in production or service. This reflects that a large number of foreign trade enterprises are actively adapting to the digital wave and embracing the transformation of artificial intelligence.
At present, foreign trade enterprises are using AI to empower multiple links such as research and development, marketing, service, and supply chain, accelerating digital transformation, thereby achieving cost reduction and efficiency improvement, accurately exploring overseas business opportunities, and enhancing competitiveness in the international market. This also injects strong impetus into China's supply side structural reform of foreign trade.
On the other hand, industrial chain enterprises need to further increase their layout of AI products and cultivate new growth poles in foreign trade.
The rise of AI products not only enriches the categories of foreign trade products, but also opens up new growth space for China's foreign trade. From smart wearables and smart homes on the consumer side to intelligent manufacturing and inspection on the industrial side, AI products have penetrated into various industries and continuously generated diversified demand, which is expected to become a new growth pole for foreign trade.
At the same time, China's AI product trade is transforming from a single product export to an integrated export of "product+technology+service", and the industrial chain is accelerating the formation of a virtuous cycle of "product export driving technology output, technology output driving industrial upgrading", promoting the transformation of foreign trade from "scale expansion" to "quality improvement".
Overall, artificial intelligence can not only optimize the entire chain process of foreign trade enterprises and enhance the core competitiveness of export products, but also comprehensively activate new driving forces for foreign trade growth. For foreign trade enterprises, only by actively embracing the transformation of artificial intelligence, continuously increasing investment in technology research and development, accelerating the iteration and upgrading of product research and development, production and manufacturing, and cross-border service intelligence, can they seize development opportunities and consolidate their "going global" advantages in the increasingly fierce international competition.