Guizhou group promotes import, export trade

High-quality products with great prices from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations trading bloc are streaming into Southwest China's Guizhou province, in the wake of the ASEAN Cold Chain (Guiyang) distribution center starting up in August 2020 – with the facility's sales reportedly continuing to rise.

Zhao Xiaojuan, deputy general manager of Guizhou Commercial Storage and Transportation (Group) Co – a State-owned enterprise based in Guiyang city, capital of Guizhou – said the distribution center is boosting the cold chain economy of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor.

Zhao added that seafood products from Southeast Asia can now be transported to Guizhou faster in the form of cold chain logistics supplies.

In order to expand cross-regional commerce and trade, as well as build a platform for exchanges and cooperation between their businesses, the Guiyang municipal government and the municipal government of Fangchenggang – a port city in the nearby coastal Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region – signed a strategic agreement in 2019.

This is said to have opened up economic and trade prosperity between the two cities.

The project was divided into three phases, to be implemented gradually. The first phase was the construction of the ASEAN Cold Chain (Guiyang) distribution center, the second phase was the construction of the Fangchenggang International Bulk Trade Collection Center, while the third phase was the construction of a secondary market in Fangchenggang.

The center is understood to have taken advantage of the locational advantages of Fangchenggang's coastal areas. It also promoted the logistics and commerce of both cities – vigorously developing cold chain trade and parks, and providing strong support for the high-quality development of Guizhou's open economy.