At present, the low-carbon wave is sweeping across the global production and supply chain, and green trade has accelerated to become the new mainstream of international trade. More and more Chinese companies are taking the initiative to demand a premium from green and a market from low-carbon.
Behind this change is strong guidance at the policy level – the 2026 Government Work Report and the “15th Five-Year Plan” outline have made strategic arrangements for the development of green trade, and clear development paths for foreign trade companies to transform green and go overseas with high quality.
Dazzling industry data strongly confirms the effectiveness of China’s green trade development. In the first four months of this year, China’s exports of green and low-carbon products such as electric vehicles and wind turbines increased by more than 40% year-on-year.
Experts interviewed said that China’s foreign trade has entered a new stage of development that improves quality, efficiency, and green upgrading. Only by focusing on systematic planning and precise efforts in the four dimensions of technology research and development, compliance layout, market penetration, and industrial chain coordination can enterprises firmly seize the opportunities of the green trade era.
Innovation leads the way and opens up green trade space
On May 6, three container vehicles loaded with waterproof mortar and waterproof colored sand departed, marking the official entry of high-quality green new material products independently developed and produced by Xi’an Meinan Biotechnology Co., Ltd. into the South American market.
Li Xiaobo, the company’s executive president, said that the waterproof mortar and waterproof colored sand series products launched this time have passed international authoritative certifications and have environmental protection properties, performance stability and construction efficiency. They can be adapted to various overseas construction and infrastructure engineering scenarios and have outstanding market competitiveness.
It is understood that Maenam Company has been deeply involved in high-end green ecological composite new materials for a long time, adheres to independent innovation and research and development, continues to expand product application boundaries, and realizes the application of multi-scenario and cross-domain technologies. Its business covers land, desert, deep space, deep sea and other scenarios.
For example, in the field of desertification control, the company has developed a hydrating water-retaining agent with a water absorption rate of up to 1,200 times. It has innovatively created an application model of waterproof sand and water-retaining agents to provide efficient solutions for ecological desertification restoration.
Relying on excellent product quality, leading core technology and mature service system, Maenam Company has already launched a global development layout. It has previously entered the markets of more than 40 countries and regions around the world, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
Regarding future overseas development, Li Xiaobo said that the company will continue to anchor its global development strategy and plans to increase the proportion of South American market business to 30% of total overseas business within three years, and will continue to deepen overseas incremental markets and amplify the advantages of green new materials overseas.
On the green foreign trade overseas track, new energy companies also performed well.
Risheng Oriental New Energy Co., Ltd. continues to delve into the green and low-carbon field, actively explores overseas markets with high-end energy storage core products, and continues to polish China’s new energy overseas business card.
The relevant person in charge of the company introduced that the iCon series of industrial and commercial energy storage liquid cooling all-in-one machines adopts a 4S integrated design. The power distribution system installation has been completed before leaving the factory, and has passed the Italian CEI 0-16/0-21 medium and low voltage grid connection certification.
“It is worth mentioning that this series of products has significant green and energy-saving advantages. Compared with traditional distributed energy storage solutions, every 10 all-in-one machines can save 3.5 square meters of land resources, and a single device can save up to 2,500 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, effectively reducing carbon dioxide emissions.”
It is understood that this industrial and commercial energy storage liquid-cooling all-in-one machine has been sold to Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Belgium, Germany, Poland and other European countries.
Recently, the company’s iCon series products have been implemented in 18 energy storage projects in Lithuania, with a total scale of 5.56 MWh, forming a large-scale energy storage site cluster, further consolidating the company’s competitiveness in the European new energy market.
The above-mentioned person in charge said that currently, the transformation of the global energy structure has entered a period of acceleration, and green and low-carbon products are changing from “optional” to “must-have” in the global market. This track has broad prospects and is full of opportunities.
In the future, Risen Energy will continue to iteratively upgrade its products, go global with full-scenario integrated optical and storage solutions, deepen its overseas regional layout, strengthen localized services in overseas countries, build a full-chain support system, and accelerate global low-carbon energy layout.
The practice of the above-mentioned enterprises is a vivid epitome of the current Chinese foreign trade enterprises relying on green innovation and technological advantages to bravely enter the international market and promote the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade in the direction of green, high-end and high-quality.
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Activate the momentum of foreign trade going overseas
“Currently, China’s green trade export industry has formed a full-chain, large-scale, and differentiated development pattern.” Song Xiangqing, vice president of the China Society of Business Economics, said that first of all, the export product structure continues to be optimized. Core wind and solar storage products such as photovoltaic modules, power batteries, new energy vehicles, wind power equipment, energy-saving and environmental protection equipment are firmly in the first echelon of global exports, and high-tech and low-carbon manufacturing categories account for the main force of green exports.
Secondly, the advantages of industrial supporting are outstanding. The domestic complete new energy industry chain, low-carbon materials, and green operation and maintenance services have formed a coordinated export model. The export of goods has simultaneously driven the overseas trade in services such as technical standards, general engineering contracting, and overseas power station operation and maintenance.
Finally, foreign trade entities are diversified, with leading new energy manufacturing companies leading the overseas market, small and medium-sized specialized new enterprises focusing on energy storage accessories, environmentally friendly filter materials, low-carbon building materials and other segments, and new green export foreign trade formats continuing to expand.
Currently, various regions are concentrating on the development of green trade through various forms: On May 28, the first green trade special training this year was held in Nanchang, focusing on the new situation of green trade development, helping companies accurately respond to changes in global green trade rules, and effectively solving green export compliance problems; Jiangsu has implemented a special incentive policy for zero-carbon factories, providing special financial support to provincial-level zero-carbon and near-zero-carbon factories, vigorously cultivating green production benchmarks, and strengthening the green competitiveness of export products.
Song Xiangqing said that in the face of multiple external uncertainties such as global geopolitical friction, the escalation of green trade barriers, and the differentiation of carbon neutral policies in various countries, China’s green trade exports will embark on a long-term development path of steadily improving quality, diversifying, and high-end.
In the future, how should foreign trade companies seize the opportunities of green trade overseas?
Song Xiangqing suggested that we should increase investment in research and development of low-carbon core technologies, simultaneously build an internal carbon accounting system for enterprises, and complete product life cycle carbon footprint certification; optimize overseas market layout, rely on cross-border e-commerce to expand emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and actively participate in overseas green infrastructure bidding and overseas green power industries.
Cooperate with industrial parks; make good use of domestic green trade support policies, apply for special green foreign trade subsidies, and special export credit insurance policies for green products, connect with cross-border financial institutions to obtain green credit, and green cross-border settlement services; actively connect with domestic leading upstream and downstream enterprises in new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, and resist overseas trade risks through teaming up to go overseas.
