How can a silver wire 'net' the world
On June 6th, journalist Jiao Lei walked into the production workshop of Hebei Kanglida Metal Mesh Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Kanglida Company") in Anping County. The weaving machine roared, and fine threads flew up and down with the needles, interweaving into a smooth and fine mesh.
In the office, Sales Manager Gong Xue clicks the mouse in front of the computer, and on the intelligent production management platform, the production progress of foreign trade orders is clear at a glance. A batch of 400 mesh stainless steel wire mesh that has just completed quality inspection is about to be packed on a truck and will soon be sent to Germany and the United States via Tianjin Port.
Kanglida Company is a well-established wire mesh enterprise in Anping County, with over 30 years of deep cultivation in the industry. With excellent quality and professional services, it has accumulated a large number of overseas customers. This year's overseas orders have been scheduled until the end of the year, and export orders in the first quarter alone increased by 15% year-on-year, "Gong Xue said with joy on her face.
As the first national level small and medium-sized enterprise characteristic industrial cluster in our province with a revenue exceeding 100 billion yuan, Anping's wire mesh products are exported to more than 190 countries and regions around the world, and the production, sales, and export volume of weaving products account for over 80% of the national total. The latest data shows that from January to April this year, the total export value of this industry cluster was 2.27 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.7%. Behind the impressive data is the multi-party synergy formed by the department's advanced services, digital empowerment, and policy support.
In the past few years, we suffered losses. Due to unfamiliarity with the new foreign trade regulations, a batch of goods almost froze at the port. Once the delivery was delayed, we had to pay a lot of liquidated damages. Anping wire mesh enterprises have a large number of products and a variety of categories. With the continuous expansion of export scale, problems such as unfamiliar policies, non-standard declarations, and inaccurate product classification have become "pain points" for enterprises to expand overseas. Gong Xue, who deeply cultivates the front line of foreign trade, has a deep impression of this.
Focusing on the pain points of enterprises, Anping County actively connects with Shijiazhuang Customs and its affiliated Hengshui Customs, forms a policy promotion team for enterprises, regularly carries out the "Customs Director delivers policies to the door" activity, and face-to-face explains practical content such as standardized declaration and origin visa. This year, Hengshui Customs has issued 860 certificates of origin for Anping's foreign trade enterprises, effectively enhancing Anping's competitiveness in the international market.
The continuous expansion of overseas market territory is not only due to the precise grasp of market trends and foreign trade policies by enterprises, but also relies on the upgrading of product quality to win recognition from overseas customers. In response to the problems encountered by many small and medium-sized enterprises in the process of transformation and upgrading, such as limited funds and insufficient technology, Anping has created an "industrial brain" for wire mesh, built a full chain service system of 9 service sectors, and provided full process digital transformation solutions for enterprises. Currently, we have provided digital transformation services to over 50 local enterprises.
At Anping Saihang Wire Mesh Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 500 looms are operating at full capacity, with only over 20 workers shuttling between the looms in the vast workshop. Last year, the intelligent manufacturing digital system tailored for enterprises based on the "industrial brain" of wire mesh helped them achieve full process digital control, significantly improving production efficiency and increasing product qualification rates from 95% to over 99%. Nowadays, the high-end electronic heat dissipation network produced by the company has successfully entered the Japanese and Korean electronic supply chain and entered the overseas high-end market.
Synchronize online and offline efforts to continuously expand overseas channels. This year, Anping County has introduced multiple support policies for product research and development, live streaming, and operation, and increased subsidies for overseas exhibitions. Professional exhibition institutions have been invited to conduct practical training for international exhibitions, and enterprises have been organized to actively participate in exhibitions and expand their markets. Focusing on cultivating new forms of cross-border e-commerce, guiding enterprises to settle on platforms such as Alibaba and Amazon, and providing supporting facilities from 16 overseas warehouses, the global layout of the wire mesh industry has become increasingly clear. Online cloud integration, offline fulfillment and delivery. According to He Peng, Deputy Director of the Development and Reform Bureau of Anping County, the new trade model of the wire mesh industry has broken down the trust barriers of cross-border procurement, and can quickly respond to small batch and personalized orders, achieving a "cloud hand in hand, goods connected globally" trade loop.