Speed Up To Sea! Weihai 7 Foreign Trade And Foreign Investment Projects Were Signed At The Qingdao Summit
Weihai News Network - On August 28, at the fifth Multinational Company Leaders Qingdao Summit multinational company investment exchange and cooperation meeting, a total of 7 foreign trade projects in our city were signed on the spot, the number ranked in the forefront of the province. Among them, there are 5 foreign trade projects, the number of which ranks first in the province.
Foreign trade is an important engine driving economic growth and a key hub for unimpeded domestic and international circulation. In the first half of the year, there were more than 4,000 foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance in the city, and the export growth of the "new three types" exceeded 100%, creating a cold chain logistics channel connecting Europe, America, Japan and South Korea and domestic.
While consolidating traditional markets such as Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, this year, emerging markets such as Africa, the Middle East and Latin America have become a new path for the development of our city's foreign trade. With Huatan supply chain in East Africa trade logistics Industrial Park as the carrier, this year, the city's first route to Africa - "Weihai-Tanzania" international shipping route officially opened. At the same time, Weihai Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry Association also docking with Ethiopian, Zimbabwe and Kenya enterprises to help our city open the African market.
With the help of this summit, our city's pace of developing emerging markets is going faster and faster. On the same day, Huatan Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. signed a new import of agricultural and sideline products project, will purchase cashew nuts, coffee, sesame, avocados and other agricultural and sideline products in Tanzania, imported from Huatan to China, distributed to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen and other large and medium-sized cities, is expected to import agricultural and sideline products worth 1 billion US dollars. "After this signing, we have further increased the number of products purchased from the Tanzanian side and expanded the future development of the company." Weihai Huatan supply chain management Co., LTD. General manager Liu Youzhi said.
In addition to developing emerging markets, our city also continues to cultivate the competitive field of cross-border e-commerce. With this signing, the smart cold chain logistics warehousing and operation platform project will be settled in the cold chain logistics Industrial Park in the comprehensive protection area, and the smart cold chain ecosystem of "cold chain supply chain cross-border e-commerce modern ocean" will be built. "Relying on the digital management platform, we can realize the intelligent operation and management of the cold chain warehouse, and it is estimated that the annual import and export trade volume will be 1 billion yuan." The relevant person in charge of the comprehensive protection area is introduced.
In addition to foreign trade projects, the two foreign-funded projects signed this time also focus on medical devices, new energy and other advantageous industries in our city. Among them, the capital increase project of Baixin Medical Products Co., Ltd. plans to invest an additional $10 million to lay out the production line of lung dialysis in vitro carbon dioxide removal equipment in Wei.
"We have worked with Weihai for more than 20 years and are very satisfied with the service and environment here, and there is no reason not to locate new products there." Song Bolin, chief financial officer of Singapore Baiyue International Co., LTD., deputy general manager of Shandong Baixin Medical Products Co., LTD., introduced that the newly developed equipment products have little trauma and low risk, and are leading in the international market technology, which is expected to be launched in the first half of 2026.
It is reported that in order to better support enterprises to "go out" to expand the market, our city closely follows the needs of enterprise development, and has successively issued policies such as "Weihai City's List of policies and measures for promoting high-quality development of foreign trade", "Weihai City's Measures for high-quality Development of Foreign Trade with stable scale and Excellent Structure", and "Weihai City's Measures for promoting cross-border e-commerce development and Cultivating new growth drivers of foreign Trade". From opening up the international market, developing cross-border e-commerce, promoting trade facilitation and other aspects to maximize the development of enterprises.
