Jinan Rio Tinto

In the first half of 2020, the Qilu, a China-Europe freight train from Jinan, Shandong, made 224 arrivals and departures, a year-on-year increase of 1.8 times. Jinan's total import and export value to "One Belt And One Road" countries was 23.8 billion yuan, up 22.1% year-on-year, accounting for 34.8% of the city's total foreign trade import and export value.

Since this year, in the face of COVID - 19 in the global spread of epidemic sharply reduce, needs of the international transport of goods channel impeded, was forced to cancel some order, such as severe situation, actively implement the "six stabilization" of jinan city "six protect" policy decisions and promote the development of foreign trade policy, to help enterprises to the market, order, realize the upturn in foreign trade.

Qilu Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. is mainly engaged in the development and production of preparations and apis for tumors, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, infections and other diseases. Its products are exported to more than 70 countries and regions in the world, among which 10 aseptic apis such as cefore series occupy the first place in the global market share. From January to August of this year, Qilu pharmaceutical products exports 498 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 13.7 percent.

"Danger" has "opportunity". According to jinan city business bureau, in view of the outbreak of the impact of foreign trade import and export, since this year, jinan aggrandizement advantage resources agglomeration, focus on building and epidemic prevention materials, agricultural products, pharmaceuticals, and so on eight major import and export industry chain, the industry import and export which accounts for above 80% of jinan, promote foreign trade enterprises to form the advantages of "attempt to sea cross market" intensive.

Jinan has granted import and export rights of epidemic prevention materials to 83 production enterprises and 95 trading enterprises, and 27 enterprises have been included in the "white list" of epidemic prevention materials export by the Ministry of Commerce. From January to August this year, Jinan exported 2.2 billion yuan of epidemic prevention materials, an increase of nearly 11 times.

"Qilu" Eurasian freight train has become the "accelerator" of Jinan opening to the outside world. Promoted by the national "One Belt And One Road" initiative, "qilu" Eurasian freight train service in jinan city developed rapidly in 2019. Key routes were opened from jinan to five central Asian countries, Russia and eastern Europe.

In April this year, jinan opened the first train from jinan, through erenhot outbound to Hamburg, Germany, "qilu" Eurasian train has been successfully extended to the hinterland of Europe, opened up jinan to deepen the opening to the outside world, participate in the "One Belt And One Road" construction of the new channel.

Thanks to local preferential policies and the convenience of customs clearance, the number of inbound and outbound containers on jinan Qilu freight train tripled in the first half of this year to 22,738. The value of imports and exports was 2.06 billion yuan, an increase of 1.1 times; Import and export declarations of 9,486, an increase of 2.8 times.

According to the latest data from the Jinan Municipal Bureau of Commerce, from January to August this year, Imports and exports in Jinan reached 93.29 billion yuan, up 31.9 percent year on year, and the city is expected to complete the total foreign trade volume of last year in the first three quarters. It is expected that the annual import and export volume will reach 132 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of about 20%.