On April 18, Premier Li Qiang exchanged views with buyers from various countries during his tour of the 135th Canton Fair. Osama Alrefaei, a Saudi Arabian buyer, was one of them.
Osama's uncle was an "old Canton Fair" exhibitor in 1995, and under his uncle's influence, Osama "got acquainted" with the Canton Fair. He jokingly called himself "the second generation of Canton Fair", but in fact, Osama has been living and working in China for 12 years. In his impression, in recent years, China has changed a lot, "China creates", "China quality", "China ZhiZhuang" is constantly becoming a reality. "I think this is the continuous efforts of Chinese private enterprises, and among these Chinese private enterprises, there are many of our old friends that we have been working with for 20, 28 years, or even longer."
According to the data of the General Administration of Customs, in 2023, China's foreign trade business entities with import and export records exceeded 600,000 for the first time, of which 556,000 were private enterprises. With the continued release of stabilizing foreign trade policy dividends, China's private economy in the development of foreign trade has shown a steady progress, steady improvement in the basic trend. 2023, China's private enterprises combined import and export accounted for 53.5% of China's total import and export value, and continue to pick up the "big beam" of foreign trade development.
In the 135th Canton Fair, these foreign trade private enterprises occupy half of the exhibition hall. In this comprehensive international trade fair with the best turnover effect, what are their new faces?
One of the keywords is growth
"We have been doing foreign trade for ten years, and the company's export business accounts for more than 95%." Cheng Ming, secretary of the board of directors of Zhejiang Zhongxin Environmental Protection Technology Group Co., Ltd., said that in 2013, the company officially entered the field of foreign trade, mainly producing degradable tableware. The business scale has also grown from US$1 million in the first year to US$200 million last year. “The past ten years have been a decade of rapid growth for us,” Cheng Ming said.
Innovation is the mother of development, and talent is the source of innovation. In order to be more competitive in the international market, Zhongxin Environmental Protection's annual R&D expenses exceed 40 million yuan/year, and its core R&D team has grown to more than 100 people. "In the past ten years, our total employee efficiency has increased from 100,000 to 200,000, 300,000, and 500,000, and it continues to grow. In the latest factory, the total employee efficiency has reached 1 million." Cheng Ming said.
"To be honest, the epidemic has put global companies under pressure for three years, but our foreign trade business has maintained an average annual growth rate of about 5%." Mao Liying, director of the foreign trade department of Hanlm Construction Technology Co., Ltd., said happily that the Canton Fair plays a " The important role of "China's First Exhibition" has prevented the company's key products from being too affected by the epidemic in the "Belt and Road" market, and even expanded to the European and American markets through quality improvements and upgrades.
In recent years, Hamel has developed very rapidly and has been successively rated as a national specialized, special and new "little giant" enterprise and a national service-oriented manufacturing demonstration enterprise. Advanced intelligent manufacturing centers have risen from the ground, and award-winning scientific and technological achievements have continued. Today's Hamel has undergone radical changes compared with the first time it participated in the Canton Fair in 2007.
“We were still a relatively small factory at that time, but now we have become an integrated service provider that provides customers with full-process consultation, customized design, product supply, installation and ongoing services. Our industry status and influence have undergone earth-shaking changes. Mao Liying lamented, "In the past three years, the company's average annual sales have been around 500 million yuan, and the company has entered the fast lane of development."
"It is the Canton Fair that has brought us tens of millions of orders." Mao Liying said that today's Canton Fair continues to shine, building a platform for enterprises and promoting the continued growth of private enterprises' foreign trade performance. “The ‘Belt and Road’ customers are very positive about the invitations we sent. We are very grateful to the Canton Fair for allowing us to meet many overseas customers.”
Keyword 2：Contribution
