Export Trade In Yangtze River Delta: What Is The Trend Of Growth?

For the once brilliant foreign trade enterprises in China, spring and summer in 2008 were "winter".

Because of the economic recession in the United States and many domestic factors, a large number of small and medium-sized export enterprises have been closed down.

However, in the economically developed Yangtze River Delta region, many enterprises have effectively solved the risks of foreign trade through pformation, and the export has grown counter trend.

　　转型不是梦想：“劳动密集”走向“技术密集”

This year, affected by the subprime mortgage crisis and RMB exchange rate appreciation, credit crunch, high cost of raw materials and so on, China has been slowing down the export "carriage" which has been running at high speed for many years, and the trade surplus has experienced a negative growth. The export enterprises are facing unprecedented difficulties.

According to statistics from the General Administration of customs, China's total trade surplus reached 123 billion 700 million US dollars in the first 7 months of this year, down 9.6% from the same period last year, a net decrease of US $13 billion 100 million. In June, the growth of foreign trade exports dropped to 17.6% from 28.1% in May, and the trade surplus decreased by 20.6% over the same period last month, with a net decrease of 5 billion 540 million US dollars.

The former vice president of sainty group and the Secretary General of the Jiangsu import and Export Chamber of Commerce, Mr Bai Jinliang, said that this year's export environment has both "external pressure" and "internal squeeze", which is the most difficult year since the reform and opening up.

Reporters in the Yangtze River Delta region's interview found that, despite the current difficulties, some regions and enterprises realized economic pformation through industrial and product structure adjustment, and export growth in the opposite direction.

Shanghai, for example, achieved $80 billion 498 million in exports in the first half of this year, an increase of 25.12% over the same period last year. Its growth rate was 4.2 percentage points higher than that of the same period last year, 3.2 percentage points higher than the national average level, of which 41.8% of the total exports of new and high technology products accounted for 41.8% of the total exports of the same period, while the export of restricted trade products in the same period decreased by 0.6% compared to the same period last year, accounting for only 2.3% of exports.

Reporters learned from the Jiangsu provincial foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Department, photovoltaic products have become an important driving force for the rapid growth of Jiangsu's high-tech products exports, the first half of this year exported 2 billion 970 million U.S. dollars, more than the total export volume last year, an increase of 231% over the same period last year.

Wang Ming, a researcher at Shanghai international economic and Trade Research Institute, thinks that the export situation is complex and changeable this year. However, many foreign trade enterprises have the ability to repair the disease.

　　调整关键：自主品牌、高新技术、虚拟贸易

"This year's export situation is like a ship passing through the Three Gorges, rapids and dangerous water. There are countless reefs in the water."

Case one: independent research and development, with "quick" winning, small batch, multi variety, fast speed export.

Guo Jian, chairman of the group, told reporters that although wages and energy prices rose by more than 10% this year, interest payments increased by about 8%, and the appreciation of the renminbi was nearly 7%, enterprises still maintained a profit margin of 5% to 6%. The most important secret was: first, the export of private brand was over 50%, the product owned intellectual property rights, and the price was higher than that of similar products; two was to control its own logistics distribution and shorten the intermediate links, not only to shorten the delivery time by nearly 1/3 than the competitors, but also to supply directly to retailers.

Case two: online pactions to reduce costs.

Li Yanli, the head of the company, said that under the circumstances of the depressed market in Europe and America, enterprises actively explored new markets such as Australia, South America, Russia and Ukraine, and increased the development of new dyeing technology and protein silk technology.

Case three: changing "small" foreign trade into "big" foreign trade, extending the industrial chain of foreign trade.

General manager Liu Shoupei said