Currently, the modern logistics industry has become a new growth point for promoting economic development. To accelerate the development of the modern logistics industry, Xiamen will make every effort to promote major industrial development and accelerate platform construction, continuously creating a business environment with a fairer market environment and a more sound legal system, making the world-class business environment a "strong magnetic field" for Xiamen to accelerate high-quality development, and creating a new growth environment for Xiamen's logistics industry and logistics enterprises to take root and develop.

Coordinating both international and domestic markets. In 2021, Xiamen's economic aggregate reached a new level, with per capita regional GDP exceeding US\$20,000, and quality and efficiency indicators such as regional GDP density and the proportion of fiscal revenue to regional GDP ranked among the top in the country. On this basis, Xiamen will fully support foreign trade enterprises in connecting with domestic consumer demand, promoting the alignment of international and domestic standards, and attracting the return of overseas consumption. Encourage key foreign trade enterprises to cooperate with high-quality domestic brand merchants, wholesalers, well-known retail enterprises, and e-commerce enterprises, and carry out direct order procurement through product joint development; support qualified industrial product export enterprises and export enterprises of raw materials and intermediate products to integrate into the domestic industrial chain and supply chain, and enhance supporting service capabilities; deepen the pilot program for general VAT taxpayers in bonded zones and the pilot program for selective collection of import duties for domestic sales, support processing trade enterprises to expand domestic sales, and improve the convenience level of domestic sales in processing trade.

The city's influence continues to expand. In September 2017, the Ninth BRICS Summit was successfully held in Xiamen, and the BRICS Partnership Innovation Base for the New Industrial Revolution was officially launched; Xiamen Airport's international passenger transit volume ranked 5th in the country, and the port's container throughput ranked 14th in the world; in addition, "Gulangyu: A Historic International Community" successfully entered the World Heritage List in accordance with standards 2 and 4 of the World Heritage Convention, becoming China's 36th World Cultural Heritage Site and 52nd World Heritage Site, effectively boosting the confidence in the unique culture of Xiamen, enabling it to develop and continue.

Reform and opening up continue to deepen. A number of experience practices implemented by Xiamen, such as "multi-regulation integration", have been promoted nationwide, the advantages of institutional innovation in the pilot free trade zone continue to expand, and the full-chain, full-cycle, three-dimensional investment attraction mechanism and the "three high" enterprise service ecosystem continue to be optimized. At the same time, Xiamen further expands open cooperation, becoming a pivotal city for maritime cooperation, a national comprehensive transportation hub of the highest level, one of the four major international shipping centers under national key construction, and one of China's benchmark cities for business environment.

In addition, Xiamen has actively explored and achieved many innovative experiences and development achievements, forming the advantages of multiple zones overlapping, creating favorable conditions for Xiamen to promote reform and opening up and accelerate high-quality development at a higher starting point.

Trade artery

——The cornerstone of logistics hubs

Against the backdrop of the new development pattern and on the basis of high-quality development, as an important central city and port in China's southeast coast, Xiamen relies on its port hub, gives play to the advantages of Xiamen's combination of "Maritime Silk Road" and "Land Silk Road", and is actively promoting the construction of Xiamen's port-type national logistics hub and the in-depth integration of the comprehensive implementation of the national "Belt and Road" initiative, the construction of domestic and international dual-cycle supply chain logistics channels, the development of an international shipping center, and the promotion of the construction of the pilot free trade zone; vigorously developing multimodal transport, accelerating the formation of a logistics industry system with complete functions serving both international and domestic markets, building Xiamen into an important logistics hub node in the "Belt and Road" supply chain system, and providing suitable soil for the growth of the logistics industry.

Xiamen is making every effort to build a high-level port-type national logistics hub. Recently, the Fujian Provincial Xiamen Port Administration Bureau, together with 11 units including the Xiamen Municipal Development and Reform Commission, issued the "Xiamen Port Construction World-Class Port Work Plan", requiring that by 2025, the position of Xiamen Port as an international container trunk hub port will be consolidated, and container throughput will reach 14 million TEUs; by 2035, an international shipping center will be built, Xiamen Port will be built into a world-class port, and container throughput will reach 20 million TEUs; by 2050, Xiamen Port's development level will be among the top in the world.

In addition, Xiamen Port will also deeply promote the adjustment of the transportation structure, vigorously develop rail-water intermodal transport, water-to-water transfer and other transportation methods. By 2025, the railway access rate of the main port areas will reach more than 60%. Actively promote the transformation of shore power facilities at berths and the equipment of ship power reception facilities. By 2025, the proportion of berths with shore power supply capacity among container, ro-ro, cruise, passenger ships over 3,000 tons and dry bulk cargo ships over 50,000 tons will be no less than 70%.

On the basis of building a port-type logistics hub, Xiamen is focusing on building a high-quality comprehensive national logistics hub. Xiamen will seize the opportunity to start research on construction plans and project planning and construction, and apply to the state in a timely manner to be included in the list of national logistics hub construction for commercial and trade services and airports, striving to initially realize the interconnection, interoperability, and coordinated operation of port-type, commercial and trade service-type, and airport-type national logistics hubs by 2025, effectively integrating the advantages of various types of logistics hubs, building a high-quality trunk logistics network, smoothing the sea, land, air, and rail three-dimensional trade arteries, and building a high-quality comprehensive national logistics hub.

Xiamen relies on its port hub, gives play to the advantages of Xiamen's combination of "Maritime Silk Road" and "Land Silk Road", and is actively promoting the construction of domestic and international dual-cycle supply chain logistics channels, the development of an international shipping center, and the promotion of the construction of the pilot free trade zone and other deep integrations.

At the same time, Xiamen further coordinates the planning of spatial layout and construction mode. Starting from the spatial layout, Xiamen's port-type national logistics hub includes Haicang Port Area and the front-stage land hub, which are efficiently connected by dedicated railway lines and express port access highways to form a unified logistics hub system. Among them, the Haicang Port Area covers an area of about 5.4 square kilometers, including container terminals and rear logistics operation areas in the Haicang operation area and Songyu operation area, and the Haicang railway freight station; the front-stage land hub covers an area of about 4.3 square kilometers, including the front-stage large railway freight yard, the front-stage logistics park, and the Dongfu railway marshalling station, etc. From the construction mode, Xiamen's hub construction adheres to the principle of overall unified planning and phased implementation of projects, mainly market-oriented, and government coordination to promote project construction. The operating entity of Xiamen Port-type National Logistics Hub is responsible for the daily work of hub construction and operation.

The transportation network system is continuously improving, the multimodal transport network is continuously improving, and railway, highway, water, and air transportation methods are effectively connected, realizing the organic connection of water-land transportation, water-to-water transfer, road-rail intermodal transportation, and sea-sea intermodal transportation, effectively improving the construction of transportation projects for Xiamen's Dongdu Port Area, Haicang Port Area, and airport stations, and smoothing regional and urban freight channels. Xiamen's logistics industry is undergoing rapid development.

Enterprise agglomeration

——New opportunities for the development of a trillion-dollar industry

With the continuous improvement of the business environment and the gradual improvement of the transportation network blueprint, Xiamen's economic development has been further improved. As an important central city on the southeast coast, Xiamen is striving to build the logistics industry into a trillion-dollar industry, promoting the synergy between domestic and foreign demand in Xiamen, increasing the frequency of import and export trade, attracting more foreign investment and foreign investment enterprises to develop together, and providing Xiamen with a development space where domestic and international dual cycles promote each other.

Currently, Xiamen City has prioritized the introduction of a number of enterprise platforms based on supply chain logistics, integrating online and offline procurement, distribution, warehousing, and delivery. It is also accelerating the intelligent and digital transformation of logistics, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading. For example, JD.com's Asia No. 1 Xiamen Tong'an Logistics Park was completed in early 2020, becoming JD.com's largest integrated warehousing and distribution logistics park in Fujian Province. This effectively promoted Xiamen's leverage of the cluster effect of logistics parks such as JD.com's e-commerce and Donglun Zhichuang, cultivating and expanding the modern logistics industry.

Another example is the Chenglian Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park project, which is more than halfway completed and will be completed and delivered before the end of October. It is understood that the Chenglian Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park is one of the important carriers for the development of a modern logistics industry center in the Maluanwan New Town, and will comprehensively support the aggregation of cross-border e-commerce and logistics industry elements in Xiamen. Li Pili, director of the front-field project department of the Maluanwan New Town area command center, said: "As the operational management headquarters base for Chenglian's development of cross-border e-commerce logistics in China, it will help more 'Made in China' products to go global from Maluanwan."

Furthermore, the Xiamen Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park will continue to leverage its advantages in industrial platform resource integration and platform investment promotion and operation, consolidate the platform's industrial chain service functions, and strengthen the platform's agglomeration effect, all based on the principle of supplementing, strengthening, and extending the industrial chain. As one of the key industrial platforms in the Xiamen Pilot Free Trade Zone and a national e-commerce demonstration base, it has already attracted many high-quality e-commerce platform enterprises, including Amazon and Hugo, forming a complete cross-border e-commerce industrial chain and ecological chain, continuously enhancing Xiamen's radiation and influence on surrounding cities. Xiamen, with its favorable business environment, transportation network, and enterprise clusters, provides strong support for the sound development of its logistics industry. The China International Logistics Festival is taking advantage of this momentum, firmly grasping the opportunity of becoming a national logistics hub city, actively exploring development paths for hub economies, and further helping Xiamen to aggregate hundreds of billions of yuan worth of logistics industry elements, promoting the transformation of Xiamen's modern logistics industry from "support" to "pillar".

The 17th China International Logistics Festival and the 20th China International Transport and Logistics Expo will be held in Xiamen.

As a "logistics industry bellwether" and an "important driver of urban logistics development," the China International Logistics Festival's arrival in Xiamen will bring new development opportunities to Xiamen, and logistics enterprises will also enter a new stage of development. The opportunities for the Chinese logistics industry in Xiamen are worth looking forward to.

After years of development, the China International Logistics Festival and the China International Transport and Logistics Expo have become deeply rooted in China, promoting and witnessing the glorious history of the logistics industry, and have become a benchmark for the development of China's logistics industry.

Recently, the organizing committee of the China International Logistics Festival and the China International Transport and Logistics Expo, together with Xiamen, announced that the 17th China International Logistics Festival and the 20th China International Transport and Logistics Expo will be held in Xiamen from December 16th to 18th, 2021, at the Xiamen Convention and Exhibition Center. At the opening ceremony of the 17th China International Convention and Exhibition Culture Festival, representatives from the organizing committee of the China International Logistics Festival and the Xiamen Municipal Government formally signed a framework agreement—to hold this internationally renowned grand convention and exhibition event in the second half of the year for five consecutive years starting in 2021. Logistics professionals will gather in Xiamen at that time.

The organizing committee of the China International Logistics Festival and representatives of the Xiamen Municipal Government formally signed a framework agreement to hold this internationally renowned grand convention and exhibition event in the second half of each year for five consecutive years, starting from 2021. Logistics professionals will gather in Xiamen.

The China International Logistics Festival and China International Transport and Logistics Expo will not only bring many development opportunities to Xiamen, but will also provide a new breeding ground for logistics enterprises. The development opportunities for China's logistics industry have arrived!

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