During the spring equinox, everything flourishes and is full of vitality.
On March 20, the “Trade Promotion Partnership, Cross-border E-commerce Enters the Local Industrial Belt (Weifang Station)” event was held at Weifang Fuhua International Conference Center.
This major event, hosted by the Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade, hosted by the Municipal Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Weifang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and co-organized by the Qingdao Council for the Promotion of International Trade, focuses on bringing industries overseas. It uses digital as the media and trade as a bridge to open a new channel for Weifang manufacturing to connect to the world.
The event brings together leading platforms, industry experts and high-quality service providers. It is not only a pragmatic move for cross-border e-commerce to empower the real economy, but also a key carrier to promote industrial upgrading and expand overseas routes, allowing Weifang enterprises to connect with global resources at their doorstep, break transformation bottlenecks, and seize opportunities and win the initiative in the wave of digital trade.
As a “vital city” in the country, Weifang is making steady progress towards becoming a “trillion city” with high spirits.
The two-wheel drive of industry and agriculture provides the most fertile soil for the growth of cross-border e-commerce.
Since being approved as a national cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone in 2020, Weifang has used the comprehensive bonded zone as the core engine to build a platform, optimize the ecology, and strengthen supporting facilities. The country’s first physical selection center for automobile and motorcycle parts has taken root. Leading platforms such as eBay have successively settled in, and leading local companies such as Huida Supply Chain have thrived.
In five years, the scale of cross-border e-commerce has surged from 140 million yuan to 24.59 billion yuan, ranking second in the province. “Made in Weifang” has ridden the digital wave and is exported to more than 130 countries and regions around the world.
This event accurately anchors the overseas development demands of Weifang’s advantageous industries such as automobile and motorcycle parts, agricultural machinery equipment, and pet food, closely follows the global economic and trade pattern and the development trend of the international market, and focuses on core topics such as new opportunities in the Russian market, AI digital empowerment, overseas warehouse logistics systems, and cross-border financial support. The content is pragmatic, rich, efficient, and accurate.
The event uses guest speeches, special promotions, theme sharing, precise docking and other forms as a carrier to carefully build a high-level exchange and cooperation platform for industrial connectivity, resource integration, and mutual benefit. It helps Weifang local enterprises seize new opportunities in the cross-border e-commerce era, broaden new paths for global development, and promote the in-depth integration, collaborative progress, and quality improvement of local characteristic industrial belts and cross-border e-commerce.
As the first stop of a series of activities of the Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade, this event is like a spring breeze, building a bridge of communication between Weifang’s industrial belt and the global market.
It uses the platform as a link and service as the support, allowing Weifang enterprises to connect with global resources without leaving home, solve the problem of going overseas, broaden the international track, give more Weifang high-quality products the opportunity to go global, and allow more industrial dreams to sail away.
Meng Xiangdong, Party Secretary and Chairman of the Shandong Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said that Weifang, relying on its solid industrial foundation such as automobile and motorcycle parts, agricultural machinery, and pet supplies, has actively cultivated a characteristic cross-border e-commerce export industry belt, forming a good demonstration effect.
The deepening of exchanges and docking among participating guests and entrepreneurs will fully unleash the advantages and potential of Shandong’s manufacturing industry, and jointly promote our province’s cross-border e-commerce to seize the global market and win the development initiative.
The conference held on-site discussions and exchanges, setting off a boom in docking cooperation.
At the event, industry elites gathered together, and top platforms and service providers took turns taking the stage. A sharing feast with both cutting-edge vision and practical value kicked off.
Newegg Group, Wildberries Jinan Industrial Incubation Base, Shandong Huazhi Big Data, Big Forest Global Logistics, Payoneer North China and other industry guests shared insights, analyzed industry trends, and jointly explored new opportunities and paths for high-quality development of cross-border e-commerce based on cutting-edge topics such as North American market layout, new opportunities in Russian e-commerce, AI technology empowerment, cross-border logistics compliance, and one-stop foreign exchange collection and settlement.
At the meeting, Weifang Comprehensive Bonded Zone issued a sincere invitation to the guests present, focusing on the cultivation of foreign trade enterprises, industrial chain integration, talent introduction, institutional innovation and the integrated development advantages of “cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt”. It comprehensively demonstrated the park’s platform, policy and service efficiency, and sincerely invited entrepreneurs from all walks of life to work together to jointly develop new overseas situations with an open mind and a win-win wish.
In the “one-on-one” precise docking session, more than ten docking seats are arranged in an orderly manner. Newegg, Google, Xinghai Cross-border, Fabao.com, Baochen Supply Chain, Huanshi Logistics and other institutions are all in place to communicate face-to-face and heart-to-heart with various enterprises in Weifang, and both supply and demand parties “go in both directions.”
At the negotiation table, inquiries are sincere and sincere, and communication is pragmatic and in-depth.
Automobile and motorcycle parts companies and logistics service providers discuss the layout of overseas warehouses, agricultural machinery companies and digital intelligence operations agencies have reached cooperation intentions, and pet food and supplies companies and cross-border platforms have clarified their entry paths.
From platform entry to logistics support, from digital intelligence operations to legal risk control, every handshake is full of sincerity, and every negotiation breeds new opportunities.
The demands of enterprises are accurately connected, platform resources are efficiently implemented, and industry and trade are deeply integrated, which brings vitality to the scene.
More than 30 cooperation intentions were reached at the event.
The Qingdao Council for the Promotion of International Trade also organized relevant enterprises and institutions to participate in the conference and negotiate to jointly promote cross-border economic and trade cooperation to become deeper and more solid.
With bridges as the vein, trade connects the world.
This grand event uses the platform as a bridge and cooperation as the soul, allowing Weifang’s characteristic industries to take root in the local area and connect the world, allowing cross-border e-commerce to empower the real economy and sail into overseas markets.
Meng Xiangtao, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of the Weifang Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said that the Municipal Council for the Promotion of International Trade will give full play to its role as a bridge connecting government and enterprises, integrating internal and external affairs, and unblocking supply and demand. It will continue to build platforms, promote docking, provide excellent services, and protect overseas markets. It will use pragmatic measures to support the city’s high-level opening to the outside world, effectively demonstrate its responsibility for trade promotion, and contribute to trade promotion.
