Qingdao Daily/Guanhai News Reporter Liu Lanxing

This newspaper reported on August 12 that stabilizing the basic foreign trade and reducing dependence on a single market, Qingdao enterprises are accelerating the development of the market for jointly building the "Belt and Road" countries. According to Qingdao Customs statistics, in the first seven months, Qingdao City imported and exported 310.29 billion yuan to countries jointly built the "Belt and Road" countries, accounting for 59.4% of the total import and export value, an increase of 6.1%, 0.6 percentage points higher than the national average.

Statistics also show that in the first seven months of this year, Qingdao's imports and exports reached 522.51 billion yuan, an increase of 1.1% year-on-year, accounting for 25.7% of the total import and export value of Shandong Province. Among them, exports were 312.07 billion yuan, an increase of 5.1%, an increase of 1.5 percentage points faster than the first half of the year. The city's cumulative imports, exports and exports have maintained positive growth for 29 consecutive months.

Qingdao's export performance is particularly impressive by deepening trade cooperation with countries that jointly build the "Belt and Road". The export value in the first seven months reached 163.81 billion yuan, an increase of 12.9%, and the export increase was 18.7 billion yuan, showing strong impact resistance. Among them, in July, the export value was 24.95 billion yuan, an increase of 16.9%.

From the perspective of export commodity structure, the pulling effect of electromechanical products is significant. In the first seven months, Qingdao exported 85.97 billion yuan of mechanical and electrical products to countries jointly built the "Belt and Road" Belt and Road, an increase of 13.5%, accounting for 52.5% of the city's total export value to countries jointly built, driving export growth by 7 percentage points. Among them, the export of household appliances, automotive spare parts and general machinery and equipment increased significantly, with an increase of 8.3%, 8.7% and 21.1% respectively. The export of agricultural products was RMB 12.56 billion, an increase of 12.9%, of which the export of vegetables and edible fungi was RMB 2.73 billion, an increase of 13.1%.

From the perspective of foreign trade business entities, in the first seven months, Qingdao private enterprises imported and exported 228.04 billion yuan to countries jointly built the "Belt and Road" countries, an increase of 11.4%, accounting for 73.5%. This achievement is due to the active recognition and adaptation of private enterprises and the active search for new channels. For example, in the field of exporting new energy commercial vehicles, we will give full play to the superior quality and performance of my country's commercial vehicle products, provide diversified models and specifications for the international market, accurately match the advantages of projects of different sizes in different countries, seize the business opportunities of cooperation with countries that jointly build the "Belt and Road" and continue to grow export scale. Not long ago, at the No. 8 Pier of Qingdao Port Dagang Company in Shandong Port, 356 compressed natural gas clean energy trucks and supporting tankers were lifted to the cabin by cranes and will be sent to Nigeria to support local infrastructure construction.

At the same time, in order to ensure efficient connection between commercial vehicle export links and help enterprises further expand the national market for jointly building the "Belt and Road" route, Qingdao Dagang Customs has mastered vehicle export information and ship berthing time one week in advance, coordinated the terminal to allocate high-quality service resources, optimized the operating area settings, ensured "zero delays" in vehicle port collection, supervision, and ship loading, and saved enterprises more than 20% of shipment time. In the first half of this year, the total value of new energy commercial vehicles exported by Qingdao Dagang Port was 696 million yuan, an increase of 85.5% year-on-year.

Since the beginning of this year, Qingdao has continued to make efforts to optimize the business environment at ports. The Municipal Bureau of Commerce has formulated the "Action Plan for Diversified International Markets of "Qingdao to Go Overseas and Trade Qingdao" and established a "Ten Hundred Thousand" overseas service system, serving more than 2,000 companies to participate in more than 160 overseas exhibitions and domestic exhibitions such as the Canton Fair and China Fair, and signed an intended order of about 31 billion yuan; Qingdao Customs launched a "Policy Toolbox" (2025) to promote cross-border trade facilitation, and announced 60 specific measures. We will make efforts from eight aspects: strengthening policy supply, improving customs clearance efficiency, empowering open platforms, innovating supervision models, optimizing supervision processes, improving guarantee mechanisms, facilitating quarantine operations, and deepening service docking, and making every effort to create a first-class port business environment in market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized; the General Office of the Municipal Government recently issued the "2025 Qingdao Cross-border Trade Facilitation Special Action Plan", focusing on strengthening policy supply, promoting smooth logistics, optimizing supervision models, and promoting the construction of smart ports, etc., to further optimize the port business environment.

Experts analyzed that the stocking cycle is currently in the peak season for traditional festivals abroad. I believe that under the promotion of a series of policy "combination punches", Qingdao enterprises will have more confidence and motivation to deploy diversified markets.