The author learned from the Yongkang municipal government that the hardware industry of the city accounts for 90% of the local industrial economy. There are nearly 10,000 hardware manufacturers and the dependence on foreign trade reaches 67%. Since the beginning of this year, the city's foreign trade exports have regained momentum of rapid growth. According to customs statistics, the city’s foreign trade exports from January to August this year reached 1.964 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 59.72% year-on-year, exceeding the export value of 18.06 billion U.S. dollars in Zhejiang Yiwu. The increase in exports was 20.32 percentage points higher than that in Zhejiang and 24.22% in the whole country.
Zhejiang Yongkang's foreign trade exports regained the momentum of rapid growth. In addition to benefiting from the improvement of the global economic environment and the need for macroeconomic environmental factors such as strong market conditions, in recent years, a government-to-business exchange platform has been established to create conditions for companies to explore emerging markets. Played a positive role.
In recent years, Yongkang City actively encourages enterprises to carry out international certification and overseas trademark registration, and provides foreign trade policy support for export-oriented brand names, international certifications, and overseas trademark registrations at the provincial level, and also strongly promotes local enterprises to expand the international market. At present, the county-level city has 39 Jinhua export brands and 9 Zhejiang export brands. This year, five enterprises are recommended to select Zhejiang export brands. It is understood that Yongkang now has 745 large-scale enterprises, 114 of which have a sales revenue of over 100 million yuan.
According to reports, in 2009, Yongkang City directed the situation of the economic downturn in Europe and the United States and guided enterprises to explore the Middle East and India markets. This year, the company determined the Middle East hardware, South African building materials, German sports cars, and the United States auto parts through research on the development of enterprises and export markets. The 5 professional exhibitions such as Brazil and Brazil Gifts were given special support to form the scale of the exhibition, and the “China Hardware Capital†regional brand was established in the international market, making the export volume in the emerging markets significantly improved.