In the first seven months of this year, Gansu's imports and exports to Uzbekistan reached 437 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.37 times. Among the impressive achievements of inland provinces in developing the Central Asian market, the Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Bonded Zone made a significant contribution, accounting for 54% of Gansu's total exports to Uzbekistan, becoming an important tool for inland areas to connect with the Central Asian market.
At the Kashgar Trade Fair held concurrently, 78 Sichuan enterprises formed a delegation to Central Asia, mainly promoting core products such as construction machinery, new energy vehicles, and home appliances. The significant increase in Gansu's exports and the collective participation of Sichuan enterprises in exhibitions both point to the Central Asian market, with Uzbekistan at its core.
For inland areas to develop the Central Asian market, smooth logistics channels are the primary foundation. In the past, the lack of access to seaports hindered the development of inland foreign trade. Now, the regular operation of China-Europe freight trains and China-Central Asia freight trains has transformed the inland hinterland into a transportation hub connecting it to the outside world. The impressive data from the Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Bonded Zone also confirms the value of the bonded platform: centralized enterprise entry enables centralized customs declaration and tax refunds, and the "domestic but outside customs" policy allows for deferred tax payments, effectively alleviating the cash flow pressure on small and medium-sized enterprises going global and ensuring stable business operations.
Various exhibitions serve as important windows for capturing genuine market demand. The Kashgar Trade Fair is not just a product display platform, but also an efficient demand matching hub. As a key land port for my country's entry into Central Asia, Kashgar can gather various market information from Central Asian countries, including infrastructure expansion, urban renewal, and mineral development.
Currently, many Central Asian countries are accelerating infrastructure construction, and existing equipment urgently needs upgrading. Urbanization is also driving the upgrading of people's consumption. Construction machinery serves infrastructure construction, new energy vehicles adapt to local energy transitions, and home appliances meet residents' consumption upgrades—these categories precisely meet the current market gaps in Central Asia. Domestic enterprises going global are not blindly seeking opportunities, but rather relying on mature and complete domestic industrial capacity to accurately supply goods to meet actual local needs.
The market landscape is also undergoing profound changes. If Central Asia is merely used as a dumping ground for goods, only short-term market benefits can be realized. Central Asia has a large population base, a high proportion of young people, and considerable consumption potential. However, its local industrial infrastructure still needs improvement, and the market is gradually shifting from simply importing finished products to welcoming foreign production capacity. Trade exports are only the first step; promoting the localization of industries is crucial to seizing future competitive advantages. Future export data from customs statistics may translate into actual output value for overseas industrial parks.
Opportunities in the Central Asian market remain, but the window of opportunity will not last forever. Gansu leverages its comprehensive bonded zones to utilize policy and transportation advantages, while Sichuan utilizes exhibitions to facilitate supply and demand matching. Although the models differ, the underlying logic is the same: reducing overall costs through logistics channels, accurately matching market demand to optimize supply, and planning for long-term development based on industrial establishment.
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