Eighty-one Shaodong-based foreign trade companies and 30 Russian businesses joined in the online negotiations.
Shaodong-made suitcases and bags have been popular in overseas markets this year. In contrast with the conventional ways to contact international clients, such as the Canton Fair, the online matchmaking event provides new inspirations and more options for local businesses.
Lighters, suitcases and bags, and hardware tools were presented on the EHN Chinese-English bilingual exhibition platform during this matchmaking meeting. In addition to an online negotiation platform, a 3D "Shaodong hardware tools, suitcases and bags shopping street" was opened, where overseas clients could do "window shopping", and hold business talks online.
Hunan and Russia have seen increasingly close economic and trade cooperation and cultural exchanges in recent years. Hunan opened its first direct shipping route to Russia on July 3. This route can save five days and 40 percent of the cost each trip, compared to previous routes that required transfers at Shanghai.
Six meetings of the "Hunan Products Go Global" online matchmaking series are scheduled to be held throughout the year. Each meeting will match one city or prefecture in Hunan Province with a designated overseas region. Targeting the Russian, ASEAN, and EU markets, each city will promote its specialty products or leading industries, for instance, Shaodong's suitcases, bags and hardware tools; Yueyang's chemical engineering and tea products; Changde's machinery manufacturing; Huaihua's healthcare industry; Xiangtan's agricultural products and food industry; and, Chenzhou's minerals and gems.
This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.
Translator: Pang Yuehui
Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn
