Special foreign trade stimulates new impetus for enriching the people
This year, the No. 1 central document of the Central Committee proposed to develop the county economy with different characteristics, foster the characteristic industrial clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the integrated development of industrial development, strengthening the county and enriching the people.
Wherever the industry flows, employment and wealth converge, but factories can be moved, equipment can be packaged, and investment can be withdrawn. The accumulated craftsmanship spirit, distinctive culture, and industrial ecology cannot be carried away, transferred, or replicated. When the foreign trade industry is deeply integrated with local characteristics, orders and employment are firmly retained in the county, becoming a deeply ingrained gene of enriching the people.
Different regions have varying levels of development, resource endowments, and regional cultures, resulting in diverse, differentiated, and distinctive industrial development patterns. This has enabled Chinese manufacturing to demonstrate strong vitality and development resilience. The gathering of local characteristic industries, such as Jingjiang, the "Yangtze River Ship Capital" that connects the four seas, Danyang, the "Glasses Capital" that clarifies the world, and Donghai, the "Armor Capital" that leads fashion, not only enables "Chinese goods" to go global, but also allows small towns to become famous overseas, unleashing the energy and vitality of products, brands, and culture.
From 'North geese fly south' to 'South geese return north', you can earn foreign exchange right at your doorstep. Hubei Tianmen has gone from "300000 tailors venturing south" to "100000 'drifters' returning to their hometowns for textile production", exporting clothing to over 150 countries and regions; Anhui Linquan, known as the "number one county for food delivery riders in China", has 300000 "returning geese" returning to their hometowns for employment and entrepreneurship, making money and taking care of their families.
From the separation of production and sales, where channels are king, to everyone going global, where products are king, the ways to make money have become wider. Cross border e-commerce has brought about a huge revolution in foreign trade channels, with live streaming sales upstairs and production and delivery downstairs, allowing individual businesses and craftsmen to video feed international customers. As long as the product is good, it can be sold globally through the customs cross-border e-commerce management platform, and there are no middlemen making profits from the price difference. More profits have entered the wallets of ordinary people.
From family workshops to industrial chain clusters, there are more people who rely on foreign trade to make money. Relying on the special customs supervision area, Kunshan, Jiangsu has attracted more than 3000 electronic information upstream and downstream enterprises to create output value, with a flow of over 2 million employees, driving consumption growth in catering, leisure, department stores and other areas.
From "low-quality" and "cheap" to popular boutique products, I have earned more foreign exchange. In the past, some people used to say 'export 800 million shirts for a Boeing plane', but shirts are not naturally cheap products. Style design, material research and development, brand effect, and every new quality element can increase their value. Currently, not only are smart home appliances such as Ecovacs shining in the international high-end market, but domestic trendy toys such as "Labubu" are also showing off their charm at the World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, winning both reputation and substantial pockets.
Maximizing one's expertise in locally unique products, selling them globally, and offering good prices is a great way to get rich. In the future, we need to add more innovative elements, keep up with the trend of manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing, make traditional industries systematic, skilled processes intelligent, and products with volume flow. We need to inject more cultural elements, take advantage of the "Chinese style" to sweep the world, combine traditional craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology to go global, combine intangible cultural heritage aesthetics with fashion trends to shine, and combine Chinese stories with product values to "go global". To inject more brand elements, enhance value through word-of-mouth, style, and recognition, focus on quality recognition to increase trust premium, endow emotional value to increase emotional premium, and respect circle preferences to increase social premium.