The 2018 Dieshiqiao Home Textile International Expo held recently attracted nearly 100 overseas professional buyers from more than 20 countries. The Director-General of the International Textile Federation, Kristen Schindler, agreed to set up the Nantong office of the International Textile Union Textiles Committee at Dieshiqiao.

In the Haimen Industrial Park, Dieshiqiao International Home Textile City, through holding international exhibitions, has established a communication platform for local textile foreign trade enterprises and overseas buyers to continuously improve the internationalization level of market trade.

The 2018 Dieshiqiao Belt and Road Import and Export Commodities Fair held in May this year is Haimen's first large-scale, high-profile, international commodity trading activity. More than 60 overseas importers and more than 160 domestic enterprises and exporters from 19 countries and regions along the “Belt and Road” have participated in the transaction with an amount of RMB 10 million. Nantong Gefu Household Textile Co., Ltd. met with foreign partners from Azerbaijan at the meeting. At present, the company leases factories to produce home textile products, mainly exported to Russia, Arabia and other countries and regions.

Compared with the Canton Fair, Yiwu Fair, the Travel Fair and the Frankfurt Exhibition, the exhibitions of Haimen Industrial Zone and Dieshiqiao International Home Textile City have just started, but the good news is that each exhibition has attracted a large number of domestic and foreign buyers. Wang Fan, director of the Park Management Committee, said that the development of the international convention and exhibition economy not only expanded the influence of Dieshiqiao home textiles, but also promoted the level of foreign trade service capabilities of the Dieshiqiao market. At present, the foreign trade public service platforms such as Dieshiqiao Customs Supervision Station, Dieshiqiao International Trade Service Center, Dieshiqiao Business Building Headquarters Economic Park have been completed and operated; the market procurement trade integrated management system has been successfully developed; tax, business, foreign exchange, 15 functional departments such as entry and exit stationed in the office; more than 10 banks and financial institutions have successively settled in, and carried out foreign-related businesses such as offshore finance, international settlement, and settlement and settlement.

Haimen Dieshiqiao International Home Textile City has accelerated the pilot of trade reform. More and more enterprises and merchants have rushed to the beach and registered in the market gathering area. Many of the relatives and friends of the legal representative of Nantong Hongyue International Trade Co., Ltd. Cai Meiyan are engaged in textile and other international trade operations in South Africa, the Middle East, South America and other countries and regions, and set up sales companies abroad. Before the pilot of the market procurement trade method, Cai Meiyan mainly exported to other trading companies and agencies through general trade, and now exports directly through market procurement and trade. Up to now, the company has declared a total export volume of 1,225 votes and a trade volume of 145 million US dollars.

As of the end of September, there were 511 merchants, 197 foreign trade companies, 36 freight forwarding companies and 24 customs brokerage agencies participating in the pilot project in Dieshiqiao International Home Textile City of Haimen Industrial Park. Accumulated customs clearance has nearly 50,000 votes, customs clearance exports exceeded 6 billion US dollars, pilot exports to more than 150 countries and regions.