A small step forward in institutional innovation and a big step forward in open development. The 12th Division Block of the Pilot Free Trade Zone coordinates its own resource advantages and continuously promotes the institutional innovation and high-quality development of industries in the Pilot Free Trade Zone. On May 10, the country's first "territorial direct" model of fresh fruits and vegetables landed in the 12th Division of the Corps, effectively promoting the international trade of fresh fruits and vegetables to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

On May 10, after passing the inspection of Wuchang Customs, the first batch of 10 cold chain trucks loaded with apples, grapes and other fresh fruits and vegetables from Xinjiang sailed out of Xinjiang Jiuding Agricultural Products Eurasian International Cold Chain Logistics Base and sent directly to Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Zhou Kai, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and general manager of Xinjiang Jiuding Agricultural Group Co., Ltd., said: "After the loading of the goods is completed, the goods will go through customs clearance procedures at the same time, and they will leave the country directly through the Khorgos port, and after the normal operation, the daily export volume of fruits and vegetables will reach 100 to 200 tons."

"This is the first time that the 12th Division has realized the direct delivery of fruits and vegetables to Central Asian countries through cold chain card shipping, and it is the successful practice of the pilot free trade zone in promoting the 'highway port + territorial direct connection' model." Peng Yan, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Commerce Bureau of the Twelfth Division, said.

Xinjiang Jiuding Agricultural Products Wholesale Market is responsible for more than 85% of Xinjiang's fruit and vegetable supply in winter and about 50% in summer, and is the largest first-class agricultural and sideline products wholesale trading market in Xinjiang and even in Northwest China. However, subject to the original fruit and vegetable export model, although the market is located in the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, it can only look at the "foreign" and sigh, doing traditional trading.

"In the past, the goods from the origin were traded in the market, and the merchants engaged in the export of fruits and vegetables found domestic transport vehicles to load the goods with us, and then pulled the fruits and vegetables to the supervision warehouse of the port to unload." Zhou Kai said.

After the inauguration of the China (Xinjiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone, the 12th Division focused on the development task of the forest fruit and dairy products industry in the 12th Division of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, based on the national fruit and vegetable distribution industry of Jiuding Agricultural Products Market, to build a fruit and vegetable import and export base for Central Asia.

Zhou Kai said: "This not only takes our market as a trading market, but also we become the origin of fruits and vegetables, and superimposes the relevant functions of the port. ”

The biggest "pain point" of fresh agricultural products is logistics. Jiuding Group's export fruits and vegetables are all transported by cold chain truck. Urumqi Customs and Wuchang Customs launched "multi-point loading and centralized inspection" to further improve the customs clearance timeliness of export fruits and vegetables, reduce logistics costs, shorten the transportation time of goods by 50%, and reduce product loss by 30%.

Wang Wenjiang, general manager of Xinjiang Lianhui Tongda International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd., said: "The logistics cost is reduced, the sales price will also be reduced, and the competitive advantage of products exported to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan will be enhanced, as well as the export-oriented economic development ability of Jiuding market." ”

Hu Yanwei, deputy chief of the inspection department of Wuchang Customs, said that in the next step, it will continue to serve the cold chain card air shipment, support enterprises to complete all customs clearance procedures in the territory, and further reduce the overall customs clearance time limit.

The landing of the new model has also opened up the "last mile" of the "Belt and Road" fresh fruit and vegetable international trade, and promoted the development of the two markets of fruit and vegetable trading.

Zhou Kai said: "With the maturity and improvement of the export service system, more merchants will directly participate in international market competition and further release the consumption potential. In the next step, Jiuding Market will open two international routes to the West Asian markets such as Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey and the European markets such as Russia. ”

Hu Kang, director of the Foreign Trade Division of the Commerce Bureau of the XPCC, said that the construction of Jiuding Agricultural Products Export Base has not only increased the export business of agricultural products, expanded the import and export trade of agricultural products, but also made a significant contribution to the quality and quantity of the XPCC's foreign trade import and export.

Reporter: Liu Gangfeng

Correspondent: Zulipihar Abduwaili