China Organizes Charter Flights To Secure Overseas Orders

group of provinces and cities to win orders

Going to Japan and Europe is the mainstream, and Africa is also a destination

      On December 7, according to the wechat official account of "Jiangsu Release", the Suzhou Bureau of Commerce organized a charter flight to Japan from November 17 to 23, which became the first large-scale charter flight organized by the local government since the epidemic in 2020. The trip to Japan was fruitful, winning more than 1 billion yuan of new orders.

      It is understood that the charter flight is made up of 12 investment teams and 51 foreign trade enterprise leaders, a total of 88 people. Within 7 days, the investment teams visited 62 enterprises and related institutions, held 3 communication and promotion meetings, and reached 32 investment intention projects with the intended investment of 1.86 billion US dollars. Foreign trade enterprises actively expand the market and grab orders, visited more than 200 Japanese customers, and won over 1 billion yuan of new orders. The charter service will further consolidate and improve the level of Suzhou's economic and trade cooperation with Japan, and win more orders and market shares. From December 9 to 18, Suzhou Bureau of Commerce also organized charter flights to France and Germany.

      At 1 am on the 9th, Suzhou once again arranged a chartered flight to Europe.

      "This time, the chartered plane was specially scheduled for 1am so that it arrived in France at 6.45am local time and could visit clients immediately after landing." The director of the Suzhou Bureau of Commerce told a reporter from Xinhua Press Junction that four clients, including two top 500 enterprises, financial institutions and business associations, had been arranged to visit on the first day. Sun Jianjiang also said in an interview that he had arranged more than 230 events in just 10 days in Europe and visited the heads of global industry leaders every day. In order to have good harvest and attract more and better quality foreign investment projects to Suzhou, they think it is very worthwhile.

      According to Zhejiang Daily, on December 5, all the 11 districts and cities in Zhejiang province optimized and adjusted the epidemic prevention and control policies and measures, and almost simultaneously promoted the "thousands of enterprises to expand the market and grab orders" to stabilize the economy. This is a collective action and team battle led by the Department of Commerce of Zhejiang Province and the commercial departments all over the province to lead foreign trade enterprises to go out to sea to find the market and grab orders. About 1,000 delegations and 10,000 foreign trade companies are expected to participate. On December 4th, a business charter flight organized by Jiaxing City set sail from Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport to Tokyo, Japan, to carry out 7-day business activities from December 4th to 10th, to participate in the Japan AFF exhibition, to carry out business visits, investigations, investment activities, etc. There are 50 enterprises, 96 people in total, including 8 merchants, which is the largest foreign trade charter delegation at the municipal level in China this year. On the same day, the main leaders of Jiaxing Commercial Bureau also led a team to Germany and France to carry out the 6-day European expansion market merchants.

      According to the Department of Commerce of Sichuan Province, a business charter flight for foreign trade enterprises from Sichuan Province to Europe to expand international markets set off in Chengdu on December 5. 40 people from 31 foreign trade enterprises in Sichuan food, medicine, automobile, furniture, agricultural products and other industries will fly to France, Germany and Italy for 9 days to carry out economic and trade promotion activities. By visiting new and old customers, participating in well-known exhibitions, investigating local business associations and commercial enterprises and other ways, they will deepen cooperation intention and master industry trends and investment environment policies. Expand economic and trade ties.

      According to Changsha Evening News and New Hunan News, the Commerce Department of Hunan Province's economic and trade delegation will visit Mozambique, Tanzania and Madagascar on December 9, aiming to promote and invite to participate in the third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo. The delegation will also visit nearly 10 departments of industry and trade, agriculture and energy in the three countries, and conduct field research on 9 key projects and parks of cooperation with Africa. We will hold a series of economic and trade exchanges and negotiations. On December 11, the Department of Commerce of Hunan Province will send a team to Singapore to learn about Singapore's economic and trade development and cooperation opportunities, establish a communication and liaison mechanism and tap the potential of bilateral economic and trade exchanges and cooperation.

Expert analysis: Strive for order results will be reflected in the economic data at the beginning of next year

      foreign trade enterprise in a city in Shandong province told Red Star News reporter that although the city did not propose to charter a plane to take foreign trade enterprises to attract investment abroad, but the registered enterprises can reimburse the airfare, and many enterprises have already signed up.

      staff member of Suzhou Commercial Bureau told Red Star News that Suzhou has only arranged two batches of investment to Japan and Europe. This is not a normal measure. It is hoped that enterprises will pay attention to the information of the commercial departments of each district and county in the future.

      staff member of Hainan International Economic Development Bureau said that Hainan recently organized an investment delegation to Japan, mainly composed of government staff, to help Hainan enterprises go global by visiting Japanese enterprises. At present, we are also studying ways to help enterprises go global, such as charter flights. We are also studying investment activities in other countries. If relevant activities are really launched, we will send them to enterprises to pay attention through official channels.

      Bai Ming, deputy director of the International Market Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, said in an interview with the reporter of Red Star News that the country supports and encourages foreign trade enterprises to go global. Recently, foreign trade has been under great pressure, and the government's organization of foreign investment is in line with the overall situation of stabilizing foreign trade. On the other hand, China's epidemic prevention and control measures have been improved. The "20 Articles" and "10 New Articles" have set new requirements on aviation and entry and exit, which also create conditions for government charter flights.

      'The lack of orders is the pressure on foreign trade,' Mr. Bai said. 'Grabbing orders through government charter flights is just one way, but it's not a regular measure.' As the epidemic stabilizes and routes resume, companies do not necessarily need to wait for government charter flights. Government chartered planes can't get to every place, and not every business needs the time. As more air routes resume, enterprises themselves should actively go out. He believes the results of this rush for orders will be reflected in economic data early next year.

      Bai Ming believes that different types of enterprises need to find their own most suitable way. Some companies have long-term overseas customers and do not need to rely on government charter flights. Some enterprises can find a good local agent, relying on overseas agencies or local agents to play a role. We also need to make full use of cross-border e-commerce and other channels.

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