Abstract：From June 15th to 19th, the 32nd Harbin International Economic and Trade Fair (hereinafter referred to as the "Harbin International Economic and Trade Fair") was held, and more than 1,400 enterprises from 38 foreign countries and regions and 21
Heilongjiang in June once again opened the door to the world.
From June 15th to 19th, the 32nd Harbin International Economic and Trade Fair (hereinafter referred to as the "Harbin International Economic and Trade Fair") was held, and more than 1,400 enterprises from 38 foreign countries and regions and 21 domestic provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities gathered in Harbin to seek opportunities for cooperation. At the signing ceremony of economic, trade and investment cooperation at this Harbin Trade Fair, Heilongjiang Province signed a total of 224 cooperation projects with domestic and foreign enterprises, with a contract amount of 84.563 billion yuan.
From June 15th to 19th, the 32nd Harbin International Economic and Trade Fair was held in Harbin. Photo courtesy of Heilongjiang International Expo Development Promotion Center
The intensive meetings, forums, and signings, as well as the warm negotiations and docking inside and outside the exhibition hall, all revealed an important message - the open Longjiang has unlimited opportunities and rising vitality. Heilongjiang is fully demonstrating its latest achievements in deeply integrating into the Belt and Road Initiative, participating in the construction of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, and creating a new highland for opening up to the north.
We will share the fruits of economic and trade development with an open attitude
"What are the product benefits?" "Are the running costs high?" "How much discount will I get if I buy in bulk?" At the Harbin Trade Fair, such dialogues came one after another inside and outside the exhibition hall, and enterprises at home and abroad and in Heilongjiang Province came with sincerity, full of expectations and precise docking, and some exhibitors were surrounded by "three layers inside and three layers outside".
Russian sweets, Korean cosmetics, Pakistani handicrafts, French wine, Vietnamese coffee...... As an important window for opening up to the outside world, the Harbin Trade Fair is full of "international style" and once again shows the world the strong attraction of the "host" Heilongjiang. Some buyers sincerely said: "Harbin Fair will never let us down, we can always find satisfactory products here." ”
Harbin International Pavilion Exhibition Area. Photo by People's Daily reporter Su Jinggang
Facing the world, Heilongjiang has created a high-level open cooperation platform for industries and enterprises in various countries and regions; For Heilongjiang, the Harbin Trade Fair is a bridge for enterprises to go to the world.
Li Hua, Secretary of the Bei'an Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of the Municipal Government, said that during the exhibition, enterprises in Bei'an City communicated through multiple channels and successfully signed a soybean industry chain project with an investment of 1.2 billion yuan from China Rongtong Agricultural Development Harbin Company and a 20 million yuan agricultural machinery procurement project from Amur Region Agricultural Co., Ltd. of Russia, injecting new impetus into the high-quality development of Bei'an.
"Hulin City has not only harvested stable orders from many countries and regions this time, but also successfully signed a number of large projects with great potential and broad prospects, such as the ecological health care center, 100,000 tons of straw biomass comprehensive utilization, and 600 million bags of amoxicillin potassium clavulanate granules." Zhao Xinru, deputy mayor of Hulin City, said that the implementation of these projects will effectively promote the industrial transformation and upgrading of Hulin City and promote the high-quality development of the county economy.
The Suihua exhibition area of the Harbin Trade Fair displays special agricultural products. Photo by People's Daily reporter Su Jinggang
In the view of Zhao Li, member of the Standing Committee of the Beilin District Party Committee and deputy head of Suihua City, the Harbin Trade Fair is not only a platform for business negotiations, but also a window for opening up to the outside world. Beilin District is a major grain producing county in China, a large seed production county in China, one of the high-quality soybean distribution centers in China, and a national regional grain breeding base. At this Harbin Trade Fair, Zhao Li brought the special agricultural product "Beilin fragrant rice" for multi-party docking. She said: "Beilin District hopes to bring the best, greenest, most fragrant and safest 'Beilin fragrant rice' to the tables of people across the country. ”
The open Longjiang attracts visitors, and it also has the courage to "go out" and dare to open up. Starting from the Harbin Trade Fair, Heilongjiang attracts all parties to share new opportunities for opening up and cooperation, identify complementary, mutually beneficial and mutually beneficial meeting points, and run out of high-quality development "acceleration" together in this summer full of vitality.
Location advantage + resource endowment to release Longjiang's "strong magnetic force"
Heilongjiang Province is located in the hinterland of Northeast Asia, which is an important overland passage from Asia and the Pacific to Russia and the European continent. The 27 national first-class ports together constitute a port group with both water, land and air and both passenger and freight transportation, which has unique advantages in the overall pattern of opening up of ports in the country.
Harbin Fair theme city Heihe image exhibition area. Photo by People's Daily reporter Su Jinggang
The two cities are connected by a bridge, and the cable-stayed steel cables above the bridge and the trucks traveling in the opposite direction reflect the real-time live broadcast on the big screen. This is the most "eye-catching" Heihe exhibition area at this Harbin Trade Fair.
"As a theme city, the Heihe exhibition area fully integrated elements such as ports, bridges, cableways, and natural gas pipelines in the design stage, and appeared on the same stage as Blagoveshchensk, the capital of the Amur Region, the third largest city in the Russian Far East, fully highlighting the geographical advantages of Heihe City's openness and accessibility." Zhang Haipeng, director of the Heihe Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that with its excellent location advantages, the Heihe area of the China (Heilongjiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone has gradually formed an industrial system represented by cross-border e-commerce and logistics, cross-border mechanical and electrical manufacturing, cross-border agricultural product processing, comprehensive utilization of imported energy, health and cultural tourism, and effectively promoted the construction of cross-border industrial clusters.
In recent years, the cross-border interconnection infrastructure of Heihe City has been gradually improved, the China-Russia East Line Natural Gas Pipeline has completed gas operation, the Heilongjiang Bridge has been successfully opened to traffic, and the Heihe Highway Port has been officially cleared through national acceptance. The increasingly perfect construction of the China-Russia corridor has brought new opportunities for Heilongjiang's opening up and development to the north.
In addition to its superior location conditions, Heilongjiang also has a good resource endowment, a strong industrial foundation and a beautiful ecological environment. Relying on favorable conditions such as rich varieties, fertile land, and suitable climatic conditions, Heilongjiang has made every effort to promote the transformation of resource advantages into economic development advantages, and various characteristic agricultural industry chains have competed for development.
Heilongjiang forest food products provincial public brand "nine treasures and eighteen products". Photo by People's Daily reporter Yang Xuenan
Heilongjiang is not only a "big granary", but also a "big forest". In the vast forests that straddle both the cold temperate zone and the temperate zone, there are abundant ecological food resources in the cold region. According to statistics, there are more than 700 edible varieties in five categories, including forest fungi, forest vegetables, forest medicines, forest fruits, and understory economic animal products, in Heilongjiang Province. At the Harbin Trade Fair, the provincial public brand of forest food products organized by the Heilongjiang Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau - Longjiang Forest Food "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Products" made its debut, and the first batch of 60 enterprises and 75 products selected by the province to use the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Products" brand were also exhibited. During the exhibition, there was an endless stream of enterprises and merchants who came to consult, and products such as birch sap drinks, red pine seeds, dried blueberries, and eleuthero tea were widely praised by all walks of life.
As an important grain production base and a traditional old industrial base in the country, Heilongjiang is relying on its excellent geographical advantages and resource endowments to form new development advantages, share investment opportunities, and create wealth and development together.
Open to the north, Lichaotou Longjiang embraces new opportunities
In June, Heilongjiang, located in the northernmost part of China, has just entered summer, and enthusiastic global merchants have come one after another, fully demonstrating the infinite charm of opening up Longjiang.
On the eve of the opening of this Harbin Trade Fair, Heilongjiang ushered in a delegation of nearly 50 heads of world-renowned multinational enterprises. This is an important stop of the "Invest in China" series of activities of the Ministry of Commerce, an important measure of the Ministry of Commerce to support Heilongjiang's opening up to the outside world, to support multinational companies to carry out pragmatic exchanges and cooperation with Longjiang, and it is also the largest opening up event in the field of foreign investment held in Heilongjiang after the epidemic.
On June 11, the "Heilongjiang Multinational Corporation Investment Cooperation and Exchange Conference of the Ministry of Commerce" was held in Harbin. Photo by Shao Guoliang
At the "Ministry of Commerce Heilongjiang Multinational Corporation Investment Cooperation and Exchange Conference" held on June 11, Singapore-Yihai Kerry Arowana Grains, Oils and Foods Co., Ltd., Switzerland-Nestlé Group, Netherlands-Case New Holland Industrial Group, Norway-Kalido Ltd., France-Sanofi Group, USA-Air Products, John Deere (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Rockwell Automation (China) Co., Ltd., Japan-ITOCHU (China) Group Co., Ltd., Latvia— Representatives of Riga Paint and Coating Factory spoke at the meeting, saying that they had a deeper understanding of Heilongjiang through this event and were full of confidence in the prospects of investment cooperation.
Multinational enterprises organized delegations to investigate, and exhibitors from various countries of the Harbin Trade Fair actively expanded the market, which benefited from the geographical advantages of Heilongjiang's opening to the north, and also because of the superimposed opening-up policy support.
"Taking the China (Heilongjiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone as an example, after its listing in 2019, the leading group of the Provincial Pilot Free Trade Zone has successively issued more than 30 institutional documents such as the provincial construction implementation plan, management trial measures, assessment and evaluation methods, and institutional innovation generation mechanisms, and 28 central provincial leading departments have issued 33 supporting policy documents, taking the lead in realizing the full coverage of 89 tasks and policies in the overall plan in the same batch of 6 pilot free trade zones across the country." The relevant person in charge of the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Commerce said, "In the past three years, the three areas of Harbin, Heihe and Suifenhe in the Heilongjiang Pilot Free Trade Zone have contributed about 1/6 of the actual use of foreign capital and 1/7 of the province's foreign trade import and export volume with an area of 3/10,000 of the province. In 2022, the Heilongjiang Pilot Free Trade Zone rose from 53rd to 40th among 190 economies around the world in terms of its simulated ranking among 190 economies in the world, and is at the forefront of the world in terms of contract enforcement, building permits, access to electricity, and tax payment. ”
Harbin Area of China (Heilongjiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone. Photo courtesy of Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Commerce
By the end of 2022, multinational companies from 103 countries and regions around the world had invested in Longjiang, with a total of US$63.6 billion in fund. From January to April this year, Heilongjiang Province's actual utilization of foreign capital increased by 145.8%, ranking third in the country.
The fruitful Harbin Trade Fair has been successfully concluded, and Heilongjiang, which is open to the north, has opened a new chapter of win-win cooperation. This piece of black land, the northernmost and easternmost part of our country, is surging everywhere with enthusiasm for opening up and development, as well as the confidence and confidence to open up to the north and stand at the head of the tide.