Quang Ninh promotes trade from border gates adjacent to China

Export activities through border gates and openings in Quang Ninh province are stable and grow annually. The bright spots of border trade have contributed positively to the comprehensive friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and China.

Mong Cai international border gate. Illustrative photo from the Internet.

In addition to promoting the effectiveness of the Van Don - Mong Cai expressway, the efforts of the functional forces of the border gate sector have helped import-export activities in Quang Ninh province to flourish. The Department of Industry and Trade of Quang Ninh province informed that export activities through border gates and openings in the province have been stable and grown steadily in recent years.

Mong Cai is the only international border gate city in the country that shares both land and sea borders with China. In recent years, border trade has always been a bright spot in the cooperative relationship between Mong Cai and Dongxing City (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China). In 2021, despite the severe impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, import-export turnover through this border gate still reached over 4 billion USD, an increase of 46%; in 2022, the total volume of import-export goods reached 1 million tons, import-export turnover was nearly 3.3 billion USD, and the state budget revenue was nearly 1,650 billion VND, the highest ever.

According to statistics, in early September 2023, on average, nearly 220 import-export vehicles passed through Bac Luan II border gate and Km3+4 Hai Yen opening every day. Photo: Internet.

After China opened its border from the beginning of 2023, import-export and immigration activities through Mong Cai (Vietnam) - Dongxing (China) have continuously grown. By the end of August, the total import-export turnover reached more than 2.2 billion USD (up about 5%); State budget revenue was more than 1,000 billion VND (up about 8%) compared to the same period in 2022.

Economic cooperation and border trade have always been one of the key areas that Mong Cai City and Dong Hung City have focused on promoting. The recent signs of recovery in border trade continue to strengthen the relationship between the two sides, aiming to build a pilot mechanism for the Vietnam - China cross-border economic cooperation zone according to the Central Government's direction.

Information from Mong Cai Border Gate Customs Branch said: “Quang Ninh Provincial Customs Department maintains annual “two-country, four-party” talks. At the Branch level, Mong Cai Border Gate Customs actively invited Dong Hung Customs to exchange and discuss ways to remove difficulties. In response, Nanning and Dong Hung were also very enthusiastic and responsible in the discussion, clear and transparent, and proposed solutions for both sides to promote effective import and export activities in the coming time.

Increasingly complete import-export infrastructure, transparent administrative reform procedures or improved quality of goods, meeting the standards of the "billion-people" market are important "keys". However, the solid foundation for trade cooperation is the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Vietnam and China, inherited and developed by the Party Committee and the government of Mong Cai City over the years. To concretize the policy of "building a peaceful, friendly, stable and developing border" of the two Parties and two States, Quang Ninh - Guangxi, Mong Cai - Dongxing, and Phong Thanh continuously have activities to establish friendly exchange mechanisms, talks, and mutual support...

Mr. Hoang Ba Nam, Secretary of Mong Cai City Party Committee affirmed: "Contributing to the growth of import and export, immigration through the Mong Cai border gate, there is a "positive role" of cooperation, solidarity and friendship, especially the strategic trust of both sides in implementing the tasks of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security. We are united in action to build the Mong Cai and Quang Ninh border gate as a model border gate in the national border gate system nationwide.

In particular, Mong Cai Border Gate Economic Zone (including Mong Cai City and part of Hai Ha District) is identified by the Prime Minister as a national focus, an important economic development center of the Northern region, of the Northern coastal economic belt and the Kunming (China)-Hanoi-Hai Phong-Mong Cai-Fangcheng (China) economic corridor (according to Decision No. 368/QD-TTg approving the Adjustment of the Master Plan for the Construction of Mong Cai Border Gate Economic Zone to 2040).

In the master plan approved by the Prime Minister, Mong Cai City has allocated a land fund of 1,300 hectares, bordering Dongxing City (China) and located between Bac Luan II border gate with the access road and Bac Luan III bridge. This area is directly connected to the Van Don-Mong Cai expressway, convenient for connecting trade, promoting geographical advantages to expand cooperation activities, attract investment, trade, high-tech processing and manufacturing, and exchange and cooperation with Dongxing enterprises and partners.

The prospect of the cross-border economic cooperation zone here continues to accelerate economic growth, contributing more and more effectively to the economic development of Quang Ninh province and the comprehensive friendship and cooperation between the two countries./.

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