New observation of foreign trade | How did China’s foreign trade scale hit a new high in the first half of the year?
CCTV News:The General Administration of Customs announced today (July 12) that in the first half of this year, the total import and export value of China’s goods trade reached 21.17 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%. More than 21 trillion yuan, this is the first time in the same period of history. This report card is hard to come by. Next, we will go to many places all over the country to see what methods they have taken to enhance the international competitiveness of their products. Today, we first entered Jiangsu, an important position for developing new quality productive forces. Jiangsu is a big manufacturing province. How can foreign trade enterprises in the manufacturing industry improve their production efficiency and seize the international market under the impetus of new quality productivity? Let’s go to a century-old textile factory in Wuxi first.
Looking at the rejuvenation of traditional industries from a cotton yarn
In this cotton textile factory in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, we saw the 300 finest cotton yarns produced in the world at present. The higher the count, the finer the yarn. This kind of cotton yarn, which is thinner than hair, is less than 0.1 mm in diameter and belongs to extra high count yarn.
Cai Yun, Chairman of Wuxi Yimian Textile Group:What does 300 yarns mean? That is, one gram of cotton can be drawn into a yarn as long as 500 meters. Like this piece of fabric made of 300 pieces, the whole cotton feels like silk.
Such a slender cotton yarn should not only meet the indexes of strength, breathability and comfort, but also realize mass production on the premise of energy saving and environmental protection.
Cai Yun:The mass production of 300 pieces (cotton yarn) is actually the result of the improvement of new quality productivity. In the past, our naked eyes alone could not detect some pricks in the middle of the yarn. However, with the intervention of our AI technology, high-speed cameras can comprehensively detect and monitor the whole yarn.
Cai Yun introduced that in the past, the disconnection occurred in production, and we had to rely on manual work to check the lines one by one. Now there is a sensor on each spindle, and hundreds of thousands of sensors in the workshop build an intelligent production line network, so that all production information such as production status and product quality can be fed back to the intelligent big screen in time.
Cai Yun:After intelligent transformation, our labor intensity has been reduced by 30% and our production efficiency has been improved by more than 20%.
At present, this cotton textile mill has 700,000 spindles and 500 looms, with an annual output of 40,000 tons of high-grade yarn. With new equipment and advanced technology, this factory not only achieved a leap in production efficiency, but also successfully opened up a more diversified international market in the first half of this year.
Cai Yun:For example, this one is a series launched in Africa. This one is a national costume in Pakistan. In the traditional market, there are either polyester chemical fibers or ordinary products with 32 pieces and 40 pieces. We use 100 pieces of pure cotton to make it.
In order to promote the intelligent transformation and digital transformation of enterprises, Jiangsu Province has allocated 1.2 billion yuan of special funds every year, and has implemented about 50,000 transformation projects. In the past, the traditional manufacturing industry with heavy labor and high energy consumption is undergoing great changes in Jiangsu.
Guo Bo, Director of Equipment and Consumer Goods Industry Division of Wuxi Bureau of Industry and Information Technology:Our municipal government has specially issued a set of implementation opinions to promote the renewal and upgrading of traditional industries, deepen the integrated application of artificial intelligence technology in the whole process and scene of textile industry, and some head textile and garment enterprises have greatly shortened the delivery cycle by building an industrial Internet integration platform. The original 25-day production cycle now takes only 7 days on average.
In the first half of the year, Jiangsu’s exports of textile and clothing products exceeded 156.5 billion.
AI detection and sensor feedback, driven by new quality productivity, have greatly improved the production efficiency of traditional industries. According to the statistics of Nanjing Customs, this year 1-mdash; In June, the export of textile and clothing products in Jiangsu Province exceeded 156.5 billion yuan, up 8.7% year-on-year, mainly sold to ASEAN, the United States, the European Union and other countries and regions.
China "Ship" of a county-level city said
After watching the cotton yarn as thin as hair, let’s go and see the 10,000-ton Big Mac — — Shipbuilding industry. Shipbuilding industry, known as "the crown of comprehensive industry", shows a country’s comprehensive industrial strength. China’s international shipbuilding market share has been ranked first in the world for 14 consecutive years. How does the shipbuilding industry maintain such a rapid development momentum? There is a saying in the shipbuilding industry: "Jiangsu is the focus of national shipbuilding, and Jingjiang is the focus of Jiangsu shipbuilding." Let’s go to Jingjiang Shipyard.
Jingjiang is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, close to the busiest golden waterway in China — — The Yangtze River section at the lowest reaches of the Yangtze River is the largest private shipbuilding base in China.
Yang Qiang, Deputy Commissioner of Jingjiang Customs:The total import and export volume of private enterprises in Jingjiang accounts for more than 90% of local foreign trade, among which the proportion of shipping enterprises has been increasing in recent years, and it has exceeded 70% this year, which shows that Jingjiang shipbuilding has become a huge driving force for foreign trade development.
At the dock of a shipbuilding enterprise in Jingjiang, two cargo ships about to be exported to Singapore are docked. In the first half of this year, this shipbuilding company alone signed more than 70 new export orders for ships.
Chen Yajun, Marketing Minister of Jingjiang Shipbuilding Enterprise:In June alone, 48 ships were signed. Last year, we only took more than 40 ships. At present, the annual processing steel weight of our three docks is about 500,000 tons.
CCTV reporter Ye Huan:With an annual consumption of more than 500,000 tons of steel, about 12 national stadiums can be built, which is the external steel structure of the Bird’s Nest. At first, wooden ships were mainly built here, but now Jingjiang shipping enterprises can not only build the world’s largest container ships, super-large crude oil ships, super-large ore ships, but even some special ships.
Chen Yajun:Since 1996, when we started to build 10,000-ton ships, we have (produced) four, five and six ships a year, and now it has reached (manufactured) more than 30 ships (10,000-ton ships). If a ship starts to deliver, it should not exceed 12 months. We are fast, and some of them reach 10 months (delivery date).
Ship orders, long production cycle. For shipowners, the market is changing rapidly, and it is very important to get a new ship on time. In recent years, Jingjiang has introduced new quality productivity, promoted the deep integration of digital shipbuilding and intelligent shipbuilding, continuously shortened the ship design and production cycle and improved the construction efficiency.
Sun Quan, Director of Development Office of Ship Research Institute of Jingjiang Shipbuilding Enterprise:Through optimization, we have adjusted the installation, debugging and delivery of equipment from the past 120 days to 45 days.
Du Zhengyu, Director of Jingjiang Bureau of Industry and Information Technology:Since the beginning of this year, we have also focused on promoting the construction of intelligent plane segmented production workshops in shipbuilding enterprises, with an overall investment of over 1.7 billion yuan, which greatly improved production efficiency.
Over the past 20 years, this shipping company has built more than 400 different kinds of 10,000-ton ships. "Big man" also has great wisdom. Jingjiang shipbuilding enterprises have continued to develop and build green energy ships in recent years, and LNG dual-fuel ships with dual power of fuel and natural gas are independently developed and designed by enterprises.
Sun Quan:After we use LNG (fuel), the emission of carbon dioxide can be reduced by 20%, and the emission of nitride sulfide can be reduced by 98% to 100%.
From building wooden ships to building high-end ships, from building 10,000-ton ships to building 400,000-ton ships now. Through scientific and technological innovation, the introduction of new materials, new technologies and new processes, and the promotion of new quality productivity, Jingjiang’s shipbuilding industry has continuously achieved leapfrog development.
Du Zhengyu:LNG dual-fuel ships and super-large container ships, which represent the most advanced shipbuilding technologies in the world, have been fully blossomed in Jingjiang. At present, the proportion of new energy green ships in Jingjiang has exceeded 50%.
As a pillar industry of Jingjiang, shipbuilding industry has driven more than 60,000 people to obtain employment, accounting for 10% of the total local population. According to the data of China Shipbuilding Industry Association, it takes more than 20 million parts to build a ship, with a long supply chain and a high degree of industrial relevance. However, Jingjiang, Jiangsu Province currently has more than 200 ships and supporting enterprises, which has formed an industrial pattern with complete chains and concentrated distribution.
Single Champion of Anchor Chain: From "Small Workshop" to "Little Giant"
There is an enterprise specializing in the production of anchor chains in Jingjiang, with an annual output of 300,000 tons. The marine anchor chains and mooring chains produced by the enterprise account for more than 60% of the global market, and it is a national single champion enterprise in manufacturing. The deep-sea mooring chain independently researched and developed by enterprises broke the foreign monopoly for 30 years in one fell swoop.
Guo Lianchun, sales manager of Jingjiang Anchor Chain Enterprise:Like (diameter) 220 mm (anchor chain), it is the largest product in the global industry in our whole industry.
Mida, Chief of Industry and High-tech Development Section of Jingjiang Development and Reform Commission:This anchor chain enterprise started as a village-run enterprise, and 70% of its products are exported, leading to the compilation of the world’s first international standard dedicated to marine mooring chains.
In the production workshop of the enterprise, there is a deep-sea anchor pile weighing 120 tons, which has been successfully applied to the construction of deep-sea drilling platforms in China.
Guo Lianchun:The design life is basically more than 20 years, that is to say, if my anchor is driven in, it cannot be displaced within 20 years. In the oil and gas industry, our global share is now over 50%.
Cultivating new quality productive forces requires not only new technologies, but also new modes of production and new development ideas. In recent years, this anchor chain enterprise has extended from "deep sea" to "land", and developed and produced chains for coal mining.
Guo Lianchun:In 2023, compared with 2022, the supply of mining chain has increased greatly. For the mining chain industry, half of them are imported, and our (goal) is mainly to replace domestic imports.
Jiangsu: "Hydrogen" Initiates New Future Development and New Kinetic Energy
In Jiangsu, it is not only the traditional industries that introduce new quality productivity, but also a number of future industries that can open up a world in the international market. For example, hydrogen energy, hydrogen energy locomotives and hydrogen energy bicycles have been exported to many countries and regions in the world.
In a locomotive manufacturer in Changzhou, several Kenyan customers are learning about the hydrogen energy locomotives made in China.
Kenyan customers:The purpose of this talk is to buy locomotives. We are very impressed by hydrogen-powered locomotives, and we are also interested in environmental protection. We want to reduce carbon emissions.
This green hydrogen locomotive will be exported from Changzhou to Chile in August this year. According to reports, the power of this hydrogen energy locomotive is 1000 kilowatts, which can save about 400 thousand yuan in fuel cost a year compared with diesel locomotives with the same working conditions.
Wei Zhimin, Director of International Marketing Department of CRRC Qishuyan Company:This is the hydrogen storage tank of hydrogen on our hydrogen-fueled locomotive. A hydrogen tank is about one kilogram of hydrogen.
Hydrogen energy, a rising star in the new energy field, not only shows its talents in industry, but also begins to enter our daily life slowly.
Ye Huan:This is the world’s first foldable hydrogen bicycle. By making 200 liters of hydrogen from 200 ml of water, this hydrogen bicycle can be driven for about 40 kilometers.
This hydrogen energy bicycle manufacturer has put more than 8,000 shared bicycles in 10 cities in China and exported them to South America, Europe, Australia and other regions.
Chen Li, Marketing Director of Changzhou Hydrogen Energy Bicycle Company:It uses a low-pressure solid hydrogen storage technology, and its bottle mouth is designed with a pressure reducing valve. Even if it is burned on a fire and the pressure reaches 8 MPa, it will automatically release the pressure, and it will not spontaneously ignite or explode.
For hydrogen energy vehicles, the hydrogen fuel cell stack is the "heart" of the hydrogen fuel cell system. The 300 kW hydrogen fuel cell stack produced by this enterprise in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province has been identified as the largest hydrogen cell stack in China at present, which can meet the demand of continuous high-speed operation of heavy trucks under full load. At present, their products have been sold to overseas markets such as Britain, Japan and Brazil.
Wei Feng, Project Manager of Yangzhou Hydrogen Fuel Cell Company:At present, the application scenarios of our stack have been extended from the "fixed" power reserve field to the "mobile" vehicle-mounted field, and the hydrogen fuel cell stack can meet all vehicle-mounted application scenarios.
At present, there are more than 300 enterprises and institutions related to the hydrogen energy industry chain in Jiangsu, accounting for 8.5% of the national total, forming an important hydrogen energy industry cluster in China.