Sichuan Daily: Good Taste, Breaking Through the Sea, Good Ingredients, Riding a Bus Back

At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, Zigong's foreign trade achieved a "good start" within a week. Eastward, the first batch of customized rabbit meat pre made dishes set sail from Shanghai Port, "jumping" onto Shanghai's dining tables; Southward, 100 tons of "Fushun Chunjian" citrus fruits are ready to go, embarking on a new journey of self operated exports to Southeast Asia; To the west, the first return train loaded with Central Asian wheat flour honked its horn and arrived, injecting new nutrients into the industry in southern Sichuan.
According to Chengdu Customs statistics, the import and export of goods in Zigong reached 6.15 billion yuan in the first 11 months of 2025, a year-on-year increase of 15.1%.

Channel expansion: Sichuan rabbits' jumping 'overseas
Not long ago, the first batch of customized pre made rabbit meat produced in Zigong was shipped from Shanghai Port to Senegal, achieving a "zero breakthrough" in Sichuan's rabbit meat exports.
The key to breakthrough lies in a source "passport". Tang Jin, Deputy Director of Zigong Customs, introduced that in order to enable local enterprises to obtain international market access qualifications, Zigong Customs has launched a "one-on-one" special guidance program to systematically upgrade the breeding farms of Sichuan Cost Agriculture Development Co., Ltd. according to export standards. In the end, the enterprise successfully obtained the registration of "Export Livestock and Poultry Raw Material Breeding Farm", becoming the first meat rabbit breeding base in the province to obtain this qualification. In Tang Jin's view, the value of this "passport" lies in establishing a set of comparable export quality and safety management standards, paving the way for more agricultural products to go abroad.
If the export of rabbit meat is a breakthrough from scratch, then the self operated export of Fushun Citrus represents a value chain upgrade from existing to excellent.
Previously, Fushun Citrus could only "borrow ships to go abroad" through intermediaries. Although it successfully entered the overseas market, the value achieved was not high. At the end of last year, 100 tons of "Fushun Chunjian" citrus were self operated and exported to Malaysia, ending the history of "borrowing ships". The 100 tons of citrus carry the dream of transforming Fushun's agriculture into an 'international supply chain', "said the person in charge of the Fushun County Agriculture and Rural Bureau.
The successful transformation is attributed to the standardization and technological empowerment of the entire chain. Li Yuanlong, the person in charge of Fushun Yuhe Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., introduced that in the past year, more than 3000 acres of customs registered orchards have established detailed "medical examination files", achieving full traceability from the fields to the dining table. At the "Citrus Technology Talent Academy", a doctoral team from Sichuan Agricultural University is stationed in the fields to promote green prevention and control, unmanned aerial vehicle plant protection and other technologies. The dual wheel drive of "technology+standards" gives "Fushun Chunjian" the hard power to self export.

Structural optimization: Direct delivery of foreign trade products by hitchhiking
The cargo ships heading east are cutting through the waves, and good news is also coming from the railway heading west. On January 3rd, a return train departing from Kapuchagai, Kazakhstan arrived at Zigong South Station. This train carrying 1642 tons of feed wheat flour marks the first time that Southwest (Zigong) International Land Port has connected to the Central Asian train network. Through the mode of "overseas cargo collection port docking direct to Zigong", it has opened up Zigong's first Central Asian return route.
In planning for the 15th Five Year Plan, Zigong will prioritize the improvement of foreign trade volume and quality, proposing to enhance the construction of the Southwest (Zigong) International Land Port and the Southbound Train Assembly Center, and expand the operation routes of the China Europe (Central Asia) train.
The opening of the return route means that we can not only send out 'Made in Zigong', but also bring in high-quality resources from Europe and Asia, "said Xu Cheng, Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Business Department of Zigong Chuangfa Construction Co., Ltd. This also lays the foundation for the next step of increasing the quality of foreign trade.
When the first box of feed wheat flour was unloaded at Zigong South Station, a two-way logistics scene flashed through the mind of Bao Xuming, the head of the Port and International Logistics Development Department of Zigong Municipal Bureau of Commerce. Many of our products also have a market in Central Asia, "he said. In the past," Made in Zigong "had to go east to the port to" take a detour "before going abroad. Now, direct trains have made it possible for" Zigong assembly and Central Asia direct shipping ".
Xu Cheng's goal is to turn this "first column" into a "monthly column". For Zhang Hui, the purchaser of wheat flour and the head of Zigong Anhydrous Port Investment and Development Company, the train also brings a bigger dream. She plans to build a feed processing plant in Zigong. "We want to turn Central Asian wheat, barley, and even Southeast Asian cassava into raw materials for landing in Zigong." In her opinion, the value of this channel lies in "industrial landing" and "cost reduction.