Xiamen Port in Fujian Province is an important foreign trade logistics hub on the southeast coast of my country. In recent years, foreign trade routes have continued to expand, container throughput ranks among the top in the world, smart customs is empowered, and the business environment continues to be optimized.
When we arrived at the Xiamen Port in Fujian Province, the quayside bridge cranes were operating 24 hours a day, and container trucks were shuttling back and forth. The entire port was busy and lively, demonstrating the vitality of the foreign trade economy.
As the largest foreign trade port in Fujian Province and the core departure port for Silk Road shipping, Xiamen Port’s “circle of friends” continues to expand as the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” becomes more and more concrete.
As of the end of February, Xiamen Port has opened 144 foreign trade routes, covering 53 countries and regions and accessing 145 ports.
From January to February this year, the foreign trade container throughput reached 1.4525 million TEUs, ranking seventh among the national ports. It is an important foreign trade logistics hub on the southeast coast.
The innovative model of cross-border e-commerce in Taiwan solves the pain point of “easy export and difficult retreat”.
Relying on the Silk Road shipping, cross-border e-commerce from Xiamen to Taiwan has developed strongly.
At the Dongdu Customs Lingang Cross-border E-commerce Center, 90% of the cross-border e-commerce export lists issued from here are sent to Taiwan. Daily necessities such as furniture, toys, shoes and clothing are quickly entering the lives of Taiwanese people.
Xiamen has innovatively launched a new return model and set up a central warehouse for e-commerce returns to Taiwan to solve the problem of whether e-commerce goods can be exported but cannot be returned.
At the same time, the “three goods in one warehouse” consolidation model is explored to realize cross-border e-commerce, general trade, and bonded goods LCL export, greatly improving circulation efficiency, and superimposing customs clearance facilitation policies, reducing corporate transportation costs by 30%, allowing “good goods” to reach Taiwan efficiently and directly.
Digital port intelligent diversion, customs clearance efficiency is further accelerated.
How to achieve accurate and efficient inspection of goods at the customs inspection site?
The answer comes from the ‘Digital Port’ intelligent cloud distribution platform.
The platform connects data from the entire customs, port, and shipping chain, and provides one-stop processing of 211 port services, and the diversion of goods can be completed before they arrive at the port.
The inspection adopts a dual mode of ‘machine inspection + manual inspection’. Large-scale non-intrusive inspection equipment is combined with an intelligent plan review system, with an accuracy rate of over 99%, and rapid identification of risks such as concealment and false declarations.
In addition to ordinary import and export goods, fresh fruits such as dragon fruit and durian pulp are also subject to standardized inspections here. Under the premise of strictly observing national biosecurity, fresh fruits are ensured to be quickly cleared through customs and freshly put on the market.
Double checks not only safeguard the security of the country, but also greatly shorten the customs clearance time and achieve efficient cross-strait logistics connection.
The new three products performed well, and Fujian’s lithium battery exports ranked among the top in the country.
Xiamen Port Haitian Terminal Cold and Hazardous Cargo Yard is the leading special cargo storage base in China. It specializes in ensuring the safe storage of new energy lithium batteries. It has complete lightning protection, temperature control, explosion-proof and anti-static facilities to build a safe line of defense for new energy products going out to sea.
With the support of hard-core facilities and convenient customs clearance policies, Fujian’s lithium battery export performance is eye-catching.
In 2025, Fujian Province’s lithium battery exports will be 130.72 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.7%, and the annual export value has exceeded 100 billion yuan for three consecutive years.
Among them, over 90% of lithium batteries are exported from Xiamen Port.
One out of every three new energy vehicles in the world is equipped with Fujian batteries, and green new energy products are going global from Xiamen Port.
BRICS routes are open, and domestically produced cars going overseas have become a new highlight in foreign trade growth.
With a complete route network, more and more domestically produced cars set sail from Xiamen and are sold to BRICS countries, Southeast Asia and other places.
At present, Xiamen Port has opened 22 BRICS routes, reaching 19 ports in 7 countries. The BRICS ‘Anzhimao’ route has achieved one inspection and full mutual recognition, and customs clearance efficiency has increased by more than 60%.
The foreign trade export structure continues to optimize, accelerating the upgrade from traditional labor-intensive products to high value-added green smart products such as new energy vehicles and lithium batteries, demonstrating the strong competitiveness of Chinese manufacturing.
The ‘Three New Things’ lead the way, and the high-quality development trend of Xiamen’s foreign trade continues to consolidate.
From the busy operations at the port to the smooth flow of e-commerce to Taiwan, from the fast customs clearance of fresh fruits to the batch export of new energy products to the efficient services of smart customs, Xiamen’s foreign trade has made great efforts in many areas and has strong momentum.
The Silk Road shipping continues to expand, the economy and trade with Taiwan are deeply integrated, the “new three” exports continue to lead the way, and the business environment continues to be optimized. Solid data demonstrates the strong resilience and vitality of China’s foreign trade, and highlights the good momentum of China’s economic stability and long-term improvement.
