Vietnam strives to export more to China
14/1/2008 18:12
Vietnam is taking some specific measures to strengthen export to China, in a
move to increase export turnovers from US$3.2 billion in 2007 to US$4 billion in
2008, some US$5.4 billion in 2010 and US$11.1 billion in 2015, according to
latest plan made by the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The
ministry will offer domestic enterprises more precise consultations and
assessments about the Chinese market, and ask them to regard it as a potential
market. It is advising the enterprises to intensify export of seafood, tropical
fruits and vegetables, cashew nuts, rice, sliced manioc and cassava, electric
wires and cables, and wood-based imitation antiques. The ministry is also
instructing local firms to do business with well-performing Chinese companies in
a long-term and stable manner, and proposing relevant ministries and sectors
give assistance to enterprises which engage in producing and trading large
volumes of goods for the Chinese market and improve quarantine operations at
border gates to facilitate export. Vietnamese firms are trying to gain bigger
export turnovers by exporting more high-value products to China. The state-owned
Vietnam Rubber Corporation will limit the export of unprocessed latex to the
Chinese market, and intensify the export of semi- processed or processed rubber
items instead, while local seafood and woodwork enterprises are penetrating into
major Chinese cities. Vietnamese seafood exporters have made plans on selling
more products to China's southwestern localities, instead of focusing too much
on the United States and the European Union (EU), and local woodwork producers
will try to export more imitation antiques to the two Chinese cities of Beijing
and Shanghai. To cope with smaller export earnings of tropical fruits and
vegetables exported to China in recent years due to fiercer competition from
Thai counterparts, some Vietnamese enterprises are boosting export of special
products having high-quality and fine packages, including dragon fruits,
coconuts, longans, water melons, bananas and litchis. Vietnam will further
tap companies owned by Chinese-Vietnamese people, and foreign retailers that
purchase Vietnamese commodities and then sell them at their supermarkets in
China. The country will also accelerate trade and investment promotion at home
and abroad targeting major Chinese traders and investors who produce goods in
Vietnam and export them to China and other countries, and establish enterprises
designated for displaying and selling local products in such Chinese cities as
Shanghai, Guangzhou and Nanning. Realizing that its seven northern provinces
bordering China have gain increasingly bigger export turnovers with the neighbor
country, Vietnam has mapped out a plan to foster industries, especially
small-scale ones, and handicraft in the seven localities. Under the plan on
developing industries of the provinces of Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Ha
Giang, Cao Bang, Lang Son and Quang Ninh to 2010 recently approved by the
ministry, Vietnam is focusing on promoting mineral exploitation, agricultural
and forest product processing, and production of construction materials,
fertilizers and chemicals with top priority given to fields which involve in
processing, producing and packaging items for export to China. Besides China,
Vietnam is trying to facilitate export to other members of the 10-member
Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN), Japan, the United States, and
the EU.
Xinhua
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