The fragrance of Ningbo lotus root wafts overseas. "Lotus root" meets "lotus" and connects to the world

Recently, domestic lotus roots have entered a peak season for centralized harvesting, processing, and export. As a characteristic advantageous industry on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay, Cixi's lotus root processing and export industry has a solid foundation and distinctive features. Cixi Customs, under the jurisdiction of Ningbo Customs, accurately meets the export needs of enterprises, provides advanced services and precise empowerment, and takes a series of convenient measures to safeguard the local lotus root products from going global.
Entering the lotus root processing workshop of Cixi Sanxing Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., the production line is running at full speed, workers are working in an orderly manner, and batches of frozen lotus root products are being processed and ready for shipment. With stable quality and excellent reputation, the company's export scale has steadily increased, and its flagship products such as frozen steamed lotus root are exported to many countries and regions such as Japan, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, and Australia. In the first eight months of this year, our lotus root export volume reached 453.4 tons, a year-on-year increase of 18%, and the recognition of overseas markets continued to improve, "said Mao Lingling, the person in charge of the enterprise.
Lotus root products have high preservation requirements, short shelf life, and extremely high requirements for customs clearance efficiency and logistics timeliness. Cixi Customs has implemented precise measures, specifically opening a "green channel" for the export of fresh and perishable agricultural products to ensure priority acceptance and rapid release. At the same time, a remote video inspection mode will be piloted for exporting frozen vegetables, significantly reducing inspection time, simplifying customs clearance processes, reducing logistics and time costs for enterprises, and enabling high-quality lotus root products to efficiently enter overseas markets.