Today’s Horgos Port has a wide variety of border trade products, including Islamic-style headscarves, Kazakhstani candies, Russian telescopes, etc., all of which are filled with stalls in the Horgos Trade City. Every day, buses with nearly a hundred people come and go here to conduct border trade business. Unique location advantages, labor cost and tax preferential policies as well as preferential import and export policies have brought new opportunities to enterprises engaged in border trade. The reporter learned from some companies that because Horgos is located in the western border area of Xinjiang, many people know little about it, and there are even jokes that misunderstood “Horgos” as “Ordos”. Nowadays, Horgos has attracted more and more investors. In addition to paying attention to local investment policies, infrastructure and supporting facilities, they also hope to learn more about broader, more targeted and more involved The operational information shows that they are confident about the future business opportunities in Horgos.
There are policies and business opportunities
The reporter learned from Xu Xinmin, deputy director of the Investment Promotion Bureau of the Horgos Economic Development Zone Management Committee, that from Almaty in Kazakhstan to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, and then to Tashkent in Uzbekistan, Horgos Horgos is precisely the densely populated area, economic development belt and market center of Central Asia. The maximum geographical coverage radius is about 1,000 kilometers, laying a good population and market foundation for our country to fully utilize Horgos to open up to the west.
Taking cotton spinning enterprises as an example, Xu Xinmin said that currently, there are 25 light textile enterprises interested in investing, including 3 cotton spinning enterprises. Xinjiang has high-quality cotton resources and is close to Central Asia. For those who come here, It has a good location advantage for cotton spinning enterprises investing in it. In addition to providing income tax reductions and exemptions for companies that set up factories in development zones, the state also provides certain discounts on standardized factory buildings, transportation, and industrial water, electricity, and gas prices. In addition, Horgos has also established a loan discount policy to support small and medium-sized enterprises. According to statistics, the development zone has obtained a total of 9 million yuan in various special funds for textile enterprises in 2013.
According to the person in charge of the Horgos Bureau of Commerce and Economic Information, after the development of the China-Kazakhstan Horgos International Border Cooperation Center in recent years, it has initially formed a business center focusing on light textile knitting processing, new building materials processing, food processing, Plastic product processing, leather processing, etc. are systematic processing industries. In accordance with the requirements for the development of enterprise parks, park industrialization, and industrial clusters, we will focus on supporting the Khorgos textile industry to become bigger and stronger, and rely on this to accelerate the construction of export processing enterprises based on the light textile industrial park. Currently, There are 15 light textile and knitting enterprises that have been put into operation. In 2013, they produced a total of 107.1095 million pairs of socks and 13.596 million pairs of gloves; achieving a total output value of 150 million yuan, accounting for 70% of the park’s total industrial output value.
Along with a series of preferential policies, Horgos Port exudes strong business opportunities.
Have ideas and take action
The person in charge of investment promotion at the Horgos Gold Port Trade City told reporters a short story: There was a pair of siblings who were originally in the clothing business in Moscow. On a trip to Xinjiang, I accidentally came to the Horgos Port and learned about its unique location advantages and national policies. My sister discovered business opportunities with a keen eye. She asked others to continue traveling and let her family take care of the business in Moscow. She stayed alone in the port for half a month to inspect the local market. She also made a surprising move and stayed at the port to work for a boss in Jiangyuan International Trade City. Although her monthly salary is only 1,500 yuan, her purpose is not to make money, but to take this opportunity to learn and understand the local market. During the Spring Festival of 2014, she directly told her boss that she would open a store and become her own boss after the year. Her boss was surprised and generous, and taught her a lot of business knowledge. After doing foreign trade business for a period of time, she decided to purchase a shop in the Golden Port International Trade City. It only took three days from the idea to the payment. She said: “People in Central Asian countries, Russia and Xinjiang region of my country have very similar consumption concepts. The market in Xinjiang is like that in the 1980s in the mainland. Now the Moscow market is not very easy to do. Gray customs clearance carries too many risks, so I am more optimistic about Huozhou. The future of the China-Kazakhstan International Border Cooperation Zone in Ergos. Kazakhstan may join the WTO in 2014 or later. In the future, it will also be convenient for Chinese goods to enter Moscow through Kazakhstan. Offshore financial experiments in the China-Kazakhstan International Border Cooperation Zone, The risks in transactions will also be reduced in the future.” She used actions to prove her optimism about the future of the cooperation zone. Now that she has brought her younger brother, she will attract more people’s attention in the future. She said that what she is doing now is planting the seeds for a green tree in the future.
For such thoughtful and prepared border trade merchants, Horgos Port is not only a place for trade, but also a place where dreams begin.
There is a market and a future
In recent years, compared with other countries, the textile products produced in my country’s Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places have the advantages of mature technology, high quality and low price, and meeting the consumer needs of Central Asian countries. In addition, border trade settlement and transportation are convenient, and trade risks are relatively relatively high. Small, our textiles are very popular in Central Asian countries.
Jin Xingzhong, chairman of Horgos Yiwu International Trade City, said that 80% of light industrial products and daily necessities in Central Asian countries rely on imports, a large part of which comes from China. Consumers in Central Asian countries have unique living habits and consumption concepts, which provide great business opportunities for the light textile products market. For example, take tablecloth products as an example. Ordinary Chinese families generally use tablecloths for two or three years, but in Central Asian countries, people replace them almost every three to five days. This living habit has increased the demand for daily necessities among local residents. Very huge.
Jin Xingzhong said: “Last year, I organized more than 1,000 companies to inspect Horgos, including many light textile companies. In addition to their superior location advantages, the light textile industries of Central and West Asian countries and Russia are very weak. 80% of the demand for light textile products needs to be purchased from China. In addition to Central Asia, many textiles in the Russian and European markets are also produced in China. Nowadays, the Horgos Compulsory Trade City is a global hub that radiates Central Asian countries. Window, border trade enterprises no longer need to go to Central Asia to open additional offices.”
According to Jin Xingzhong, it used to be that goods from Yiwu to Amsterdam in the Netherlands had to go around the Strait of Malacca. The normal transportation time was 30 to 45 days. Now that the railway is open, it only takes 12 to 14 days. This news is very important to This is a huge benefit for all businesses.
