Shiliuyun -Xinjiang Daily News (Reporter Chen Qiangwei): The reporter learned from the Urumqi Customs: In the first half of 2022, the number of foreign trade enterprises in Xinjiang increased significantly, and Urumqi Customs added 1306 newly registered enterprises, an increase of 83.68% year-on-year, the largest increase in the same period in history.

Aerial photo shows China-Europe freight trains that are about to depart on the arrival and departure line of the Alataw Pass Railway. (Photo by Li Qiang)

Peng Yue, who is engaged in automobile sales in Urumqi, registered a foreign trade enterprise in May this year to expand its automobile sales business into the international market. "The number of China-Europe freight trains continues to rise, so does the number of domestic automobile exports to the Central Asian countries, which made the thought of engaging in international trade dawn on me." Peng Yue said. She said that from registration and filing to handling of various procedures, the relevant departments are very fast, and now the company has the qualifications to do international trade, and is negotiating with merchants about automobile exports.

In order to optimize the business environment and facilitate enterprises, Urumqi Customs further simplifies the filing process, shortens the filing time, achieving online filing processing for customs declaration entities, and optimizes and simplifies the filing process of customs declaration entities.

In the first half of 2022, Xinjiang recorded 287 foreign trade enterprises through “multi-certificate in one” channel, accounting for 21.96% of the number of new foreign trade enterprises in the first half of the year, an increase of 56 times over the same period last year. As of the end of June, the number of enterprises registered with Urumqi Customs exceeded 15,000 for the first time, reaching 15,132.

In the first half of 2022, the import and export value of private enterprises in Xinjiang increased by 49.6% year-on-year, exceeding the overall growth rate of Xinjiang's foreign trade by 10.5 percentage points, accounting for 88.6% of the total import and export value of Xinjiang's foreign trade in the same period, and driving the growth of Xinjiang's foreign trade by 40.8 percentage points.

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