Yunnan ASEAN fruit and vegetable 'two-way rush'
Yunnan is based on the construction of a radiation center facing South Asia and Southeast Asia. With its unique geographical advantages and resource endowments, it is building an efficient, convenient, and interconnected cross-border corridor for agricultural products, closely connecting Yunnan with the "fruit plate" and "vegetable basket" of ASEAN countries, and promoting the acceleration of regional economic and trade cooperation. According to statistics from Kunming Customs, Yunnan's import and export of agricultural products to ASEAN reached 36.93 billion yuan in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 16%. Among them, imports of durian, longan, and mangosteen amounted to 13.98 billion yuan, while exports of Yunnan agricultural products such as grapes, citrus, and mustard amounted to 13.8 billion yuan.
Under the warm winter sun, the grapes in Binchuan County, Dali Prefecture, are in the peak harvest season. Due to its location in the hot and dry valley of the Jinsha River, the winter grapes here have a crisp and sweet taste, which is highly favored by domestic and foreign consumers. The picking workers in the orchard are skilled in their movements, gently cutting off clusters of plump and rosy grapes. After sorting, packaging, and boxing, this batch of "sweet" winter grapes is quickly transported to the "one-stop" service center for fresh agricultural product exports in Dali Prefecture.
Dali Customs relies on the "one-stop" service center for fresh agricultural product exports in Dali Prefecture to provide enterprises with full process services such as filing, registration of fruit orchards and packaging factories for export, and local inspection of exported agricultural products. It implements centralized supervision of multiple links from procurement, warehousing, packaging, loading, sealing to transportation. The local inspection link is compressed from 3 working days to less than half an hour. After the exported fruits pass the inspection, they can enjoy the "green channel" for fresh agricultural product transportation and the free passage policy of highways. The "one-time loading" process is fully cold chain exported.
Good fruit quality is more important than speed, "said Huang Song, the person in charge of Yunnan Xi'er Agricultural Products Co., Ltd." Now our grapes are seamlessly connected from picking to customs inspection, entering the Vietnamese market in the shortest possible time! Last year, we exported over 14000 tons of grapes to Binchuan, Dali, which doubled compared to the past. We are very confident in this year's market
The Tianbao Port in Wenshan Prefecture, 400 kilometers away, also welcomes the busy morning. Inbound trucks loaded with fresh durian, longan, jackfruit and other Southeast Asian fruits are passing through the "fresh and perishable" green channel in order, and the fastest time from arrival to release is less than one day.
Our imported fresh durian has high timeliness requirements, and the key to seizing freshness lies in customs clearance efficiency! "Said Zhang Liangyong, General Manager of Wenshan Chengke Import and Export Trading Company, pointing to the cold chain convoy leaving the freight yard. During peak hours, the company imported 120 durian cold chain trucks in a single day, directly supplying markets such as Beijing, Guangzhou, and Zhejiang.
From "field and field" to "international market", Kunming Customs deepens the two-way empowerment of "system+technology", builds a full chain supervision system of "source control+port supervision+follow-up inspection", implements innovative models such as "batch inspection (quarantine)" and "cloud issuance" of exit inspection and quarantine documents, and launches a series of convenient measures such as "advance declaration", "two-step declaration", "appointment clearance", and "conditional departure", combined with the application of non-invasive and technological inspection equipment such as H986 and intelligent monitoring platform. The construction of a "two-way fast lane" for agricultural products between China and ASEAN is accelerating. While ensuring the security of the country's borders, the efficiency of customs clearance continues to improve, and more high-quality agricultural products are reaching all directions, writing a win-win chapter in regional economic and trade cooperation. (Wu Ge, Cao Xuan, Wan Yingchao/Text)