CCTV News:According to the website of the Ministry of Communications, "We focus on Southeast Asia and insist on ‘ Go out ’ With ‘ Bring in ’ Pay equal attention to economic cooperation and cultural integration, and promote new progress in the construction of the Maritime Silk Road. " On June 12th, talking about the implementation of the "the belt and road initiative" initiative, Huang Xiang, director of the Fujian Provincial Department of Transportation, told an interview group of the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" coastal ports.
Since the "the belt and road initiative" initiative was put forward, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other coastal provinces have taken advantage of the east wind to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with national ports along the "Haisi", and gradually embarked on a new path of interconnection and win-win, and people’s hearts are interlinked and integrated.
Expanding the "circle of friends" has various ways of communication.
"Because of the pleasant cooperation before, Hamburg Port of Germany successfully formed a friendship port with us in July last year after signing a friendship port agreement with Xiamen Port." Yuan Yue, deputy director of Guangzhou Port Authority, introduced.
Port twinning has gradually become an important way for China ports to strengthen exchanges with countries along the "Haisi" and expand their "circle of friends".
There are 64 pairs of friendly ports between Guangdong ports and international ports, of which 16 pairs are ports of countries along the "the belt and road initiative" such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East and West Africa, and 234 routes have been opened. In 2019, the World Port Conference, known as the "Olympic Grand Meeting" of international port and shipping, will be held in Guangzhou, which will bring new development opportunities and cooperation space for Guangzhou Port.
"During this period, we plan to establish friendly relations with more international ports and explore the establishment of a maritime Silk Road port cooperation mechanism to lay a solid foundation for the port city alliance." Yuan Yue said.
Located on the southeast coast, close to the Taiwan Province Strait, Fujian has established a normal exchange mechanism between Fujian ports and ports of ASEAN countries on the basis of strengthening exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan Province ports, strengthened the establishment of sister cities, and promoted the flow of materials and funds among Fujian, ASEAN and Taiwan Province. In the past four years, Fujian ports have become friendly ports with 14 ports in countries along the "Haisi".
"Under the framework of friendship port cooperation, we are trying to innovate cooperation modes according to the characteristics of different ports." Chen Zhangyue, deputy general manager of Fujian Transportation Group, said that the exchange of personnel, training and technology with different "group friends" provided opportunities for new routes, asset mergers and acquisitions, and also provided a fulcrum for expanding global shipping business, which was conducive to better playing the role of Fujian ports in logistics, economy and trade.
Focus on capacity cooperation and economic and trade exchanges to a higher level
Giving full play to geographical advantages, combining with local industrial transformation and upgrading and supply-side structural reform, and devoting to international capacity cooperation have become another important way for coastal provinces and regions to enhance the level and level of economic and trade cooperation with countries along the route.
"As the flagship project of Haisi international cooperation, Zhongma Qinzhou Industrial Park, together with Mazhong Guan Dan Industrial Park, will strive to cultivate transnational industrial chains and service chains and upgrade the capacity cooperation between China and ASEAN countries." Gao Pu, executive deputy director of China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park Management Committee, said that with the good conditions provided by the Beibu Gulf Port, Guangxi will work with Malaysia to build the "two-country park" into an "ASEAN business valley", providing a new model for capacity cooperation between China and countries along the "the belt and road initiative".
The delegation also learned that relying on the smooth maritime transport channel formed by port and shipping infrastructure construction and free trade zone system innovation, the three provinces and regions have strengthened port cooperation with countries along the route to achieve win-win connectivity. On the one hand, China port and shipping enterprises take the initiative to "go out" and build overseas economic and trade industrial cooperation parks and manufacturing bases, thus realizing the layout of industrial chains and supply chains on a larger scale; On the other hand, effectively "bring in" and actively attract multinational companies and global leading enterprises to invest and build in coastal port areas and port-adjacent industrial parks.
In Fujian, there are currently 33 berths built and operated in Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong and other countries and regions, and 18 wharf projects are planned or under construction, with a total investment of about 12 billion yuan. In 2016, Fujian invested US$ 2.23 billion in countries and regions along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, a year-on-year increase of 61.6%.
Guangdong and Guangxi also actively adopt bilateral or multilateral, trans-regional, investment, trade, finance and other cooperation methods, and extensively seek the greatest common denominator of cooperation with national enterprises and international institutions along the "the belt and road initiative". Only Guangzhou Port connects with more than 20 major ports along the "the belt and road initiative" and opens 66 container liner routes. From January to May this year, the import and export volume of Guangzhou Port to these ports totaled more than 450,000 TEUs, up 15.7% year-on-year.
China’s national industrial and commercial enterprises with a long history — — China Merchants is the representative of China’s port and shipping enterprises "going out". At present, China Merchants is giving full play to its own advantages, implementing the "the belt and road initiative" initiative in an all-round and whole industrial chain, and putting the "Qiangang — Central District — The "Shekou Model 4.0" of "Back City" is popularized and replicated in the port cities along "the belt and road initiative" to promote the efficient and high-quality development of local port cities.
"Shekou Industrial Zone has changed from a small fishing village to a low-carbon new port city with the characteristics of the cruise home port through the development and construction of the port, the central district and the back city 30 years ago, and ‘ The belt and road initiative ’ Many of the national ports along the route are similar to Shekou in that year and have prerequisites for replication. " Talking about "Shekou Mode 4.0", Zhang Lin, deputy general manager of China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone Holding Co., Ltd., said that Djibouti Port is a good example. Do a good job of "Qiangang — Central District — After the layout of "Back City", China Merchants helped Djibouti government to realize the transformation and upgrading of the old port area with the least cost and the best path, and Djibouti Port was gradually turned into a regional shipping center, a regional financial center and a regional business center.
At present, China Merchants has 184 overseas entities and 49 ports in 19 countries and regions, forming a network of ports, logistics, finance and industrial parks all over Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania, and becoming an important overseas fulcrum for exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries.
Focus on people’s hearts and minds Humanities and technology exchanges are getting better and better.
While economic and trade cooperation is constantly upgrading, humanities and technical exchanges are also getting better.
In the process of implementing the "the belt and road initiative" initiative, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi insisted on promoting economic cooperation and people-to-people exchanges, and strengthened cultural exchanges and personnel exchanges with countries and regions along the route. Fujian gives full play to the role of overseas Chinese as a bridge, and guides overseas Chinese of Fujian nationality to actively participate in local political and social affairs; Xiamen University has established a branch in Malaysia, becoming the first overseas branch of a public university in China. Guangdong has conducted in-depth exchanges with port management departments and enterprises in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Guangxi relies on China — ASEAN Interconnection and Cooperation Committee, China — Meeting of ASEAN Transport Ministers, etc., reached broad consensus with local governments of ASEAN countries, and cooperated on sea routes to smooth China — Asean international maritime transport corridor.
At the same time, the maritime department actively exchanges and cooperates with the maritime departments of ASEAN and other countries.
On the basis of maritime search and rescue cooperation with ASEAN countries in the surrounding waters, Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration organized the capacity building and training of VTS duty personnel, and cooperated with ASEAN countries in the supervision and inspection of cruise port countries to promote the development of cruise industry.
Guangxi Maritime Safety Administration is studying and formulating "Several Measures for Serving the belt and road initiative and China-ASEAN Cooperation Platform", striving to deepen cooperation with the south and the sea. Previously, with the help of the characteristics that Guangxi’s minority languages are interlinked with those of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and other countries, the bureau actively docked or guided the cultivation of ASEAN maritime culture, and conducted in-depth exchanges in maritime management, maritime communications, maritime search and rescue, and maritime education and training.
Fujian Maritime Bureau explored the cooperation path of maritime management between China and Central and Eastern Europe through the research on the topic of "Research on Maritime Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern Europe", and strengthened the exchange and learning between professionals at home and abroad; Strengthen search and rescue cooperation with relevant parties in Taiwan Province around the consensus of keeping the Taiwan Strait safe, and promote the mutual benefit and win-win effect of cross-strait shipping while ensuring maritime safety.
Exchanges and cooperation at all levels have become an important way to promote cultural identity and popular support between China and countries along the "the belt and road initiative".
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