Foreign trade is an important engine for economic growth.
In the first quarter of this year, the import and export volume of Weifang High-tech Zone exceeded 19 billion yuan, ranking first in the city, with a year-on-year increase of 5.2%.
This “hot” data reflects the good trend of regional foreign trade maintaining stability, improving quality, and continuing to improve.
Leading companies took the lead in breaking through and built a solid “ballast stone” for foreign trade development.
Walking into the finished product delivery area of Weichai Group, freight vehicles are shuttled back and forth and shipped in an orderly manner. Batteries of power equipment are ready to go and will be exported to Peru and other countries and regions.
All intelligent production workshops are operating at full capacity and working hard to catch up on orders and ensure delivery. There is a surge of high-quality development everywhere.
“Since the beginning of this year, the company’s products have grown significantly in markets such as Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Central Asia. Among them, large-bore natural gas engines, M26/M33 Baudouin series generators and other products are very popular.” Weichai’s order support business manager said.
Having been deeply involved in the global market for many years, Weichai is unswervingly following the path of international development, continuing to accelerate its global layout, taking product export as an important starting point, and continuously improving its brand’s international influence and core competitiveness.
At present, Weichai’s overseas engine fleet has exceeded 300,000 units.
In order to build a solid foundation for overseas development, the company continues to improve its global marketing and after-sales service system, keep up with the pace of overseas market layout, and accurately promote the construction of service networks.
“We have established more than 8,000 service outlets in 150 countries around the world to provide comprehensive after-sales service for our products, making overseas customers more secure and assured.” The relevant person in charge said that a complete service network has become an important support for enterprises to expand the international market.
Weifang High-tech Zone focuses on industrial advantages, promotes the acceleration of waist enterprises, and opens up new overseas space in market segments.
In the production workshop of Weifang Donghang Printing Technology Co., Ltd., technical workers are debugging a high-speed printing machine destined for Indonesia’s Sinar Mas Group, Asia’s largest paper-making company. At the same time, orders sent to India, Tanzania, Vietnam and other countries are also stepping up production. Soon these “high-tech manufacturing” will travel across the ocean and exert strong productivity in overseas markets.
As a high-tech enterprise integrating R&D, production, sales and after-sales service of special printing equipment, China Eastern Technology has participated in or taken the lead in drafting 11 national and industry standards. It mainly independently develops and produces unit-type flexographic printing machines, satellite-type flexographic printing machines and auxiliary equipment.
While consolidating the domestic market, the company is actively exploring overseas markets and has participated in many international exhibitions such as drupa and European label printing exhibitions. Its products are exported to more than 130 countries and regions in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Current orders have been scheduled until August this year.
“The company’s foreign trade increased by about 30% year-on-year in the first quarter.” The company’s foreign trade manager said that the outstanding results are inseparable from continuous investment in research and development.
The company spends 4% to 5% of its sales revenue on research and development every year, and independently develops core technologies such as visual inspection systems, printing optical inspection systems, and machine motion control systems. At the same time, it applies a large number of original designs in hardware to ensure that the products are easy to use, high-precision, and low-waste, and are favored by the international market.
Focusing on advantageous leading industries such as high-end equipment manufacturing and new generation information technology, Weifang High-tech Zone encourages enterprises in the industrial chain to anchor technological innovation, form comparative advantages, and team up to go overseas to grab orders.
In addition to leading backbone companies such as Weichai and Goertek, many companies such as Cameron Petroleum Machinery, Zhaoyuan Intelligent Drones, and Saimai Power Generation Equipment also performed well. A number of high-tech and high value-added products have become the darlings of the international market.
Leading companies took the lead in breaking through the situation, and clusters of lower-level companies worked together to paint a vivid picture of the high-quality development of foreign trade in Weifang High-tech Zone.
Weifang High-tech Zone will continue to strengthen policy empowerment, optimize the foreign trade development environment, help more companies go abroad and explore the global market, let the foreign trade engine continue to roar, and inject more lasting power into the high-quality development of the regional economy.
