On December 15th, the reporter learned from the "Thirteenth Five-Year Achievement Tour" theme press conference held by the Yantai Municipal Government Information Office. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, it is estimated that the city's accumulated actual use of foreign capital is 10.8 billion US dollars. 1.3 times of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the goal of "accumulated actual use of foreign investment of US$10 billion" was exceeded one quarter in advance. From January to October this year, the city’s actual use of foreign capital was 1.68 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 68.1%, an increase of 64.2 and 37.9 percentage points higher than the national and provincial levels respectively, and won the first prize for stabilizing foreign investment in the province. From January to November, the city completed import and export of 288.01 billion yuan, an increase of 10.2%, which was 8.4 and 2.9 percentage points higher than that of the whole country and the province respectively. It is expected that imports and exports this year will exceed 300 billion yuan and exports will exceed 200 billion yuan, exceeding the target. task. Yantai has achieved full-line growth in imports and exports, exports and imports for three consecutive months.
In the past five years, the trade structure of Yantai has been more optimized. Established 79 branches and 490 wholesale centers overseas, covering the top 20 trading partners and radiating 226 countries and regions. The proportion of imports and exports of countries along the “Belt and Road” increased from 17.1% in 2015 to 25.1% in 2020 . Signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the China-ASEAN Business Council and China Credit Insurance Shandong Branch to escort local enterprises to "go global". The proportion of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in imports and exports will increase from 3.5% and 27.1% in 2015 to 2020 9.6% and 47.4% of the total, becoming the main force in the city’s foreign trade import and export. Pay attention to the transformation of trade methods. The proportion of general trade imports and exports will increase from 32.6% in 2015 to 51.6% in 2020.
Yantai City seizes opportunities such as the Pilot Free Trade Zone, Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone, vigorously develops new forms of foreign trade such as bonded maintenance and financial leasing, promotes the landing of oil blending and blending businesses, and builds a global bonded blending business The distribution center is expected to boost the city's new imports and exports by more than 80 billion yuan this year. Yantai Development Zone, Zhaoyuan City and Longkou City were approved as national-level foreign trade transformation and upgrading demonstration bases, and Development Zone and Longkou City were approved as provincial-level foreign trade transformation and upgrading demonstration counties. Yantai has become the first city in the province to operate the entire line of the "Qilu" Eurasian train. The shipping range covers Southeast Asia, five countries in Central Asia, Russia and European countries, and establishes faster and more economic and trade exchanges with countries along the "Belt and Road". Smooth and more efficient logistics channels.
In December 2019, Yantai was approved as a national-level cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zone. In the past year, Yantai has strengthened its connection with leading cross-border e-commerce platforms such as Ali International Station and eBay to promote the breakthrough development of cross-border e-commerce business. Up to now, more than 300 companies in the city have carried out B2B business through Ali International Station. On September 1, the first batch of cross-border e-commerce 9710 and 9810 businesses in Yantai was successfully opened and implemented, marking that Yantai cross-border e-commerce has achieved full model and full process coverage. From January to October this year, the city's cross-border e-commerce import and export exceeded 400 million yuan, which was more than 430 times that of last year, and the growth rate ranked first in the province.
Yantai has also actively applied for the construction of China's service outsourcing demonstration city, forming a support from Dongfang Electronics, CIMC Raffles, Foxconn, Hyundai Motor, Jereh, 1861 Cultural and Creative Industrial Park, covering power operation and maintenance, offshore maintenance, information technology, There are 6 major productive service trade industrial clusters for testing services, energy services and cultural animation, with 654 service trade companies in the city. In 2020, the city's service trade import and export volume is expected to increase from 32.7 billion yuan in 2015 to 41.7 billion yuan, and the proportion of service trade in foreign trade will increase from 10.8% to 12.6%. Among the application cities of China's service outsourcing demonstration cities, Yantai ranked second in the country in comprehensive evaluation.
