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From January to November 2024, Longquan's foreign trade export continued to consolidate the positive momentum, achieving a total export of 3.05 billion yuan, an increase of 24.5% year on year.

The relevant person in charge of the Longquan Municipal Bureau of economy and Commerce analyzed that the outstanding performance of Longquan's foreign trade exports was mainly due to the concerted efforts of the main industries and the policy to help enterprises "go to sea" to increase orders.

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Main industries make concerted efforts

In recent days, in the production workshop of Longquan Zhongtai Automotive Air Conditioning Co., Ltd., an order for 30000 sets of clutch assemblies to the Southeast Asian market has been in full swing. In 2024, enterprises' foreign trade exports increased by 87.3% year-on-year, and this year's orders have been placed in April.

"The secret of our good export lies in winning with quality." yanglincong, the sales manager of the enterprise, told reporters that in the past two years, the enterprise has made great efforts in quality. On the one hand, it has deepened the cooperation between colleges and enterprises, developed new products and new processes through the "think tank" of colleges and universities, and improved its market competitiveness; On the other hand, the production line was expanded to improve efficiency and production capacity. In 2024, the output value increased by 30% year-on-year.

Longquan auto air conditioning components industry started in the early 1970s. After half a century of development, it has accumulated a solid industrial foundation. It is the only industrial cluster in Lishui that has been selected into the national characteristic industrial cluster of small and medium-sized enterprises. With industrial advantages, from January to November 2024, the cumulative export volume of 69 auto parts foreign trade enterprises in Longquan reached 1.65 billion yuan, an increase of 17.5% year on year.

Characteristic leading is the most significant feature of Longquan's foreign trade export. In addition to auto parts industry, bamboo, celadon, sword and other characteristic industries are also Longquan's main export earning industries.

As the traditional pillar industry of Longquan, the bamboo and wood industry was once famous. However, in recent years, the development of this industry has fallen into a bottleneck period. In 2024, Longquan City will start a new round of transformation and development of bamboo and wood industry with the determination to break the wrist. It will demolish 232000 square meters of "two violations" of bamboo and wood buildings, free up more than 1190 mu of land space, integrate and improve 242 bamboo and wood enterprises, reverse the decline of the above designated output value of the bamboo and wood industry for three consecutive years, and achieve positive growth. It has been successfully selected as the key county of bamboo industry in the province; From January to November, 21 enterprises in the bamboo and wood industry exported 354million yuan, an increase of 13.5% year on year.

Thanks to the transformation and upgrading, the export of Zhejiang Nengfu Tourism Products Co., Ltd. increased by 17.6% year on year in 2024. The company seized on the new trend of "replacing plastic with bamboo" and launched several types of bamboo plastic umbrellas, which were very popular in the market. In particular, the newly developed automatic assembly system for wooden umbrella handle achieved rapid and accurate assembly of wooden umbrella handle, with obvious characteristics of cost reduction and efficiency increase, which won the market competitiveness for the enterprise.

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Policies help enterprises expand "circle of friends"

Since 2024, Longquan has thoroughly implemented the "sweet potato economy" to upgrade the "No. 1 opening up project", and issued the new deal of "eight suggestions on promoting the high-quality development of the open economy", fully supporting enterprises to expand markets and increase orders, and further enhancing the development confidence and toughness of foreign trade enterprises.

Iran and Turkey in June, Panama in July, Russia in August, Germany in September, Shanghai in October, and the United States in November... Open the circle of friends of Huang Yibo, general manager of Zhejiang shuolang electromechanical Accessories Co., Ltd., and clearly record his "going global" footprint in 2024.

There is only one goal to keep walking, that is to get more foreign trade orders. "Last year, the new foreign trade policy issued by the city gave us a great impetus." huangyibo said frankly that it was originally the business of the enterprise to expand the market and add orders, but the policy support of the municipal Party committee and the municipal government made them even stronger. In 2024, the enterprise will achieve the total output value of the previous year in half a year, and the annual output value will increase by more than 50% year on year.

In order to revive the glory of sword porcelain industry, last year, the Longquan municipal Party committee and government also worked hand in hand with the Provincial Second Light Industry Group Co., Ltd. to deploy and implement the "sword porcelain going to sea plan", and make full use of the strong advantages of the export platform of the Provincial Second Light Industry Group to promote sword porcelain products to Omeida countries and countries along the "belt and road".

At the 136th Canton Fair in 2024, more than 400 exquisite sword porcelain works in Longquan made a stunning appearance, attracting more than 100 groups of foreign businessmen from all over the world to stop and watch, and successfully reached more than 10000 intended orders. At the same time, with the help of the overseas Chinese warehouse alliance of the provincial second light industry group, Longquan sword porcelain has been successfully introduced to overseas merchants in the United States, Hungary, Bulgaria and other five countries.

"In the face of the complex and volatile international environment, it is precious that Longquan's exports can achieve steady development, which also fully proves that Longquan's industry still maintains strong competitiveness and development toughness." the person in charge of Longquan's Bureau of economy and Commerce said that it will continue to implement various business service measures to promote the stable growth of foreign trade exports.