憑祥：做熱通道、做實(shí)口岸、做活旅游
——專訪憑祥市委書記、廣西憑祥綜合保稅區(qū)管委會(huì)常務(wù)副主任王方紅

□ 文 /本刊記者 高航 黎敏

千年雄關(guān)新時(shí)代，絲路憑祥果飄香。在中國(guó)眾多沿邊城市中，廣西憑祥從2015年以來(lái)就保持著中國(guó)最大陸路水果進(jìn)出口口岸的地位。面對(duì)如此驕人的成績(jī)，憑祥再接再厲，不斷拓展發(fā)展格局、提升發(fā)展水平。

憑祥火車站旁，新建的鐵路進(jìn)境水果指定口岸項(xiàng)目工地一派繁忙；憑祥市邊境貿(mào)易貨物監(jiān)管中心里，目前全國(guó)海關(guān)最先進(jìn)的H986查驗(yàn)設(shè)施正在高效運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)；中越友誼關(guān)—友誼國(guó)際口岸貨運(yùn)專用通道上，“三合一”驗(yàn)放系統(tǒng)助力快捷通關(guān)……這是一個(gè)日新月異的憑祥，這是一個(gè)邁進(jìn)新時(shí)代、繪就新篇章的憑祥。

邁進(jìn)新時(shí)代的憑祥將如何再書新華章？憑祥市委書記、廣西憑祥綜合保稅區(qū)管委會(huì)常務(wù)副主任王方紅近日在接受本刊記者專訪時(shí)給出了自己的答案。

01 /廣西憑祥市委書記、憑祥綜合保稅區(qū)管委會(huì)常務(wù)副主任王方紅

02 / 2017 年 9 月11日，中越友誼關(guān)—友誼國(guó)際口岸貨運(yùn)專用通道正式通車

升級(jí)基建，做熱通道經(jīng)濟(jì)

在中國(guó)西南，與東盟國(guó)家陸地接壤的城市不止憑祥，但唯有憑祥稱得上是中國(guó)—東盟最便捷的陸路大通道。它有多便捷呢？據(jù)王方紅書記介紹，開車從憑祥到越南河內(nèi)只需要3個(gè)小時(shí)，到泰國(guó)曼谷只需要26～28小時(shí)，到新加坡需65～68小時(shí)。

“以泰國(guó)曼谷為例，從廣州走海運(yùn)到曼谷大概需要7～8天時(shí)間，而從憑祥走陸路到曼谷只需要1～1.5天，雖然陸路成本相對(duì)于海運(yùn)成本貴了1/3，但是節(jié)約了大概2/3的時(shí)間。對(duì)于效率至上的企業(yè)，用1/3的價(jià)格買2/3的時(shí)間，總成本還是降低的?！蓖醴郊t書記給記者算了一筆賬，“除了跟海運(yùn)比，憑祥與其他陸路通道相比，在運(yùn)費(fèi)上也便宜1/4左右，這也是不少企業(yè)選擇憑祥通道的一個(gè)原因。”

得益于這樣的通道優(yōu)勢(shì)，憑祥近年來(lái)成為中國(guó)—東盟貿(mào)易進(jìn)出口的重要通道，一車車東南亞水果、電子產(chǎn)品、紅木、海產(chǎn)品等等從這里送往中國(guó)與東盟各城市。憑祥已然成為了廣西構(gòu)建面向東盟的國(guó)際大通道中的重要一環(huán)。而在“一帶一路”、中新互聯(lián)互通南向通道穩(wěn)步建設(shè)的大背景下，憑祥繼續(xù)把通道做熱，不僅將更好地服務(wù)中國(guó)—東盟的貿(mào)易往來(lái)，也將更好地參與南向通道的建設(shè)，銜接“一帶一路”。

王方紅書記表示，目前，在巨大的運(yùn)輸需求下，憑祥的通道建設(shè)壓力仍然不小。因此，憑祥將通過(guò)推動(dòng)4項(xiàng)基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施的建設(shè)、提升通關(guān)服務(wù)水平等舉措，打開格局、做熱通道。

2017年9月，中越友誼關(guān)—友誼口岸國(guó)際貨運(yùn)專用通道正式通車，在一定程度上提升了友誼關(guān)口岸的通關(guān)便利性?！?018年，我們將繼續(xù)推動(dòng)南向通道中越‘兩國(guó)一檢’項(xiàng)目，建設(shè)‘一路一橋一場(chǎng)一區(qū)’，即實(shí)現(xiàn)中越友誼關(guān)—友誼口岸貨運(yùn)專用通道拓寬工程（一路）、左輔山二橋及友誼關(guān)口岸卡口改擴(kuò)建工程（一橋）、‘兩國(guó)一檢’查驗(yàn)貨場(chǎng)中方區(qū)域場(chǎng)地平整工程（一場(chǎng)）、入境車輛候檢區(qū)（一區(qū)）全面開工建設(shè)?！蓖醴郊t書記說(shuō)，“另外3個(gè)項(xiàng)目包括，建設(shè)浦寨—新清國(guó)際貨運(yùn)專用通道（越方段），啟動(dòng)弄懷—谷楠貨運(yùn)專用通道前期工作，以及建設(shè)憑祥（鐵路）進(jìn)境水果指定口岸?！蓖醴郊t書記特別提到，2018年年內(nèi)作為國(guó)家一類口岸的鐵路口岸將投入使用，屆時(shí)，憑祥的通道潛力將進(jìn)一步得到釋放。

而在軟件方面，友誼關(guān)口岸也將通過(guò)“單一窗口”、口岸電子智能通關(guān)系統(tǒng)等，縮短貨物通關(guān)時(shí)間，服務(wù)憑祥通道經(jīng)濟(jì)的發(fā)展。

瞄準(zhǔn)產(chǎn)業(yè)，做實(shí)口岸經(jīng)濟(jì)

依托通道優(yōu)勢(shì)，憑祥在進(jìn)出口貿(mào)易方面交出了一份份亮眼的答卷。據(jù)王方紅書記介紹，2017年憑祥水果進(jìn)出口貨量（含互市）達(dá) 235萬(wàn)噸，同比增長(zhǎng)15.47%。截至2018年5月31日，憑祥市邊境貿(mào)易貨物監(jiān)管中心累計(jì)完成交易約34.48萬(wàn)輛次（含互市小型貨車），同比增長(zhǎng)17.09%；進(jìn)出口貨物量累計(jì)完成交易約117.75萬(wàn)噸，同比增長(zhǎng)9.86%。

如此多的貨物和車輛從憑祥通道進(jìn)出，但給憑祥當(dāng)?shù)亓粝碌馁Y源并不多。如何讓資源愿意留在憑祥，為當(dāng)?shù)貏?chuàng)造更多價(jià)值？王方紅書記認(rèn)為必須做實(shí)口岸經(jīng)濟(jì)。

“我們將通過(guò)發(fā)展口岸加工業(yè)、物流業(yè)、電商等產(chǎn)業(yè)來(lái)做實(shí)口岸經(jīng)濟(jì)?！蓖醴郊t書記向記者表示，在口岸加工業(yè)方面，憑祥主要瞄準(zhǔn)水（堅(jiān)）果加工、電子產(chǎn)品加工、紅木加工三大產(chǎn)業(yè)?！皯{祥在這三大產(chǎn)業(yè)方面都有較為良好的基礎(chǔ)，目前口岸專業(yè)市場(chǎng)初具規(guī)模，中國(guó)—東盟水果城、中國(guó)紅木城等專業(yè)市場(chǎng)已順利投入運(yùn)行。而憑祥貨源充足、品質(zhì)好、跨境勞務(wù)成本較低等優(yōu)勢(shì)都成為了吸引企業(yè)聚集的亮點(diǎn)?！?/p>

目前，憑祥已吸引鹽津鋪?zhàn)印⑸綎|沙土食品、佰秀農(nóng)農(nóng)副產(chǎn)品、越香園乳制品等一批項(xiàng)目落戶投產(chǎn)，實(shí)現(xiàn)了憑祥邊貿(mào)農(nóng)副產(chǎn)品落地加工、越南獨(dú)資加工的零突破。在加工業(yè)方興未艾的同時(shí)，電商的種子也在憑祥悄然發(fā)芽。

“憑祥連續(xù)4年上榜‘中國(guó)縣域電子商務(wù)發(fā)展百佳縣’，這給我們發(fā)展電商產(chǎn)業(yè)和物流產(chǎn)業(yè)提供了信心。我們正依托廣西憑祥綜合保稅區(qū)的政策優(yōu)勢(shì)和區(qū)位條件，大力發(fā)展跨境電商產(chǎn)業(yè)，通過(guò)對(duì)現(xiàn)有微小電商進(jìn)行規(guī)范化管理，為中國(guó)—東盟消費(fèi)者購(gòu)買跨境產(chǎn)品提供更好的服務(wù)?！蓖醴郊t書記說(shuō)，“我們還將出臺(tái)現(xiàn)代物流業(yè)扶持激勵(lì)政策，大力引進(jìn)培育物流龍頭企業(yè)，整合現(xiàn)有小企業(yè)的資源，‘化零為整’，真正實(shí)現(xiàn)優(yōu)化配置。2017年我們已經(jīng)成功引進(jìn)了捷遞集團(tuán)中國(guó)總部和富士康準(zhǔn)時(shí)達(dá)綠色物流中心落戶。相信未來(lái)，物流、電商、口岸加工等產(chǎn)業(yè)會(huì)為憑祥發(fā)展提供新的動(dòng)能。”

依托優(yōu)勢(shì)，做活文化旅游

近年來(lái)，邊境城市利用沿邊資源紛紛發(fā)展起跨境旅游。而憑祥作為中國(guó)優(yōu)秀旅游城市，不僅擁有千年雄關(guān)的歷史底蘊(yùn)，也富有民族與異域風(fēng)情，在發(fā)展跨境旅游上底氣十足。據(jù)王方紅書記介紹，2017年憑祥7個(gè)口岸出入境人員總數(shù)達(dá)1020萬(wàn)人次，其中旅游往來(lái)人員穩(wěn)步增長(zhǎng)。

憑祥友誼關(guān)

“目前，憑祥已經(jīng)打造了中越跨境自駕游特色旅游產(chǎn)品，開展有越南自駕游、越南—老撾2國(guó)自駕游、越南—老撾—泰國(guó)3國(guó)自駕游、越南—柬埔寨—泰國(guó)—老撾4國(guó)自駕游、越南—柬埔寨—泰國(guó)—老撾—緬甸5國(guó)自駕環(huán)線游等。”王方紅書記說(shuō)，“據(jù)統(tǒng)計(jì)，自2010年以來(lái)，通過(guò)友誼關(guān)口岸出入境的自駕車旅游團(tuán)數(shù)共132個(gè)，自駕車輛達(dá)到1536輛，隨車游客達(dá)5430人次。同時(shí)，我們利用2017年7月30日友誼關(guān)口岸落地簽證業(yè)務(wù)正式辦理的契機(jī)，積極培育入境旅游市場(chǎng)，截至2018年6月底，已有1.75萬(wàn)人次的越南游客通過(guò)辦理落地簽入境游中國(guó)?！?/p>

而在中越雙方的共同推動(dòng)下，2018年7月底，中越兩國(guó)將正式開通中國(guó)廣西—越南諒山的跨國(guó)自駕車旅游線路。屆時(shí)，從友誼關(guān)口岸出境前往越南諒山的中方自駕車旅游團(tuán)（含汽車、摩托車）可到諒山同登口岸經(jīng)濟(jì)區(qū)范圍游覽；越南入境中國(guó)旅游自駕車旅游團(tuán)（含汽車、摩托車）可到廣西崇左市、南寧市轄區(qū)范圍游覽。

王方紅書記表示，下一步，憑祥一方面將重點(diǎn)開展中國(guó)廣西—越南諒山跨國(guó)自駕車旅游試點(diǎn)工作，在實(shí)踐中及時(shí)調(diào)整，力爭(zhēng)在2019年實(shí)現(xiàn)該線路的常態(tài)化運(yùn)行；另一方面將爭(zhēng)取中越雙方給予持《中華人民共和國(guó)出入境通行證（邊境旅游專用）》的旅游團(tuán)隊(duì)靈活選擇出入境口岸，并可到越南其他邊境省份游覽的許可，以形成憑祥—諒山—河內(nèi)—下龍—東興旅游環(huán)線；此外，還將探索推進(jìn)浦寨—新清中越邊境旅游試驗(yàn)區(qū)建設(shè)，讓旅游產(chǎn)業(yè)惠及更多普通人。

有了旅游匯聚人氣、產(chǎn)業(yè)提供動(dòng)能、通道暢達(dá)資源，邁進(jìn)新時(shí)代的憑祥必將書寫更精彩的華章。

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Pingxiang Embracing a New Era of Development with Corridors, Ports and Tourism— Exclusive Interview with Wang Fanghong, Secretary of the CPC Pingxiang Municipal Committee and Executive Deputy Director of Management Committee of Guangxi Pingxiang Integrated Free Trade Zone

Written by Gao Hang and Li Min / Translated by Wu Sheng

Filled with the sweet aroma of fruits, millenniaold Pingxiang embraces a new era of development. Located in the southwest of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,Pingxiang has remained the largest land port for the import and export of fruits in China since 2015.With the impressive achievements, Pingxiang has been making persistent efforts to further expand and improve its development.

Beside the Pingxiang Railway Station, a new railway port designated for importing fruits is being constructed; at a border trade cargo supervision center, the H986 X-ray inspection machine, a stateof-the-art facility used by the customs departments,is operating; and on a special freight route linking China’s Friendship Gate Port and Vietnam’s Friendship Port, a new check and release system is helping facilitate customs clearance. Entering the new era, Pingxiang has been witnessing a series of profound changes.

How will Pingxiang continue to write a brand new chapter of its remarkable development in the new era? In an exclusive interview with China-ASEAN Panorama, Wang Fanghong, Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Pingxiang Municipal Committee and Executive Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Guangxi Pingxiang Integrated Free Trade Zone, gave his answers.

Developing corridor economy through better infrastructure

Among all the cities bordering ASEAN countries in southwestern China, Pingxiang provides the most convenient land access to ASEAN. According to Wang Fanghong, it takes merely three hours to drive from Pingxiang to Hanoi in Vietnam, 26 to 28 hours to Bangkok in Thailand, and 65 to 68 hours to Singapore.

“Take Thailand’s Bangkok as an example. It takes about seven to eight days for cargoes to be transported from Guangzhou to Bangkok by sea, while the time can be reduced to only one to one and a half days if they are transported from Pingxiang by road. Even though the costs of land transport are one third higher than those of maritime transport, the time can be saved by two thirds. For companies putting efficiency first, the overall costs are in fact lowered in this way,”said Wang Fanghong. “Besides, the expenses of land transport from Pingxiang are also one fourth cheaper than those from other routes. That is why so many companies have their goods transported from here.”

Due to its geographical advantage, Pingxiang has become an important corridor for China-ASEAN import and export trade in recent years, with various commodities such as fruits from Southeast Asia,electronic products, rosewood, and marine products transported from here to other parts of China and ASEAN countries. The city has been a key link in Guangxi’s efforts to build itself into an international passage to ASEAN. And by tapping into its corridor advantage, Pingxiang can better serve China-ASEAN trade, participate in the development of the China-Singapore Connectivity Initiative — Southern Transport Corridor, and connect the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21stCentury Maritime Silk Road.

However, Wang Fanghong said that facing the current huge transport demand, Pingxiang is still seeing great pressure in corridor construction. Therefore, it will take an array of measures, including advancing infrastructure construction and improving customs clearance, to upgrade its transport framework and accelerate corridor building.

On September 2017, the special freight route linking China’s Friendship Gate Port and Vietnam’s Friendship Port was of ficially open to traffic, boosting customs clearance of the Port of Pingxiang Friendship Pass. “In 2018, we will continue to push forward with the ‘two countries,one inspection’ system, and complete four infrastructure projects, namely the widening of the special freight route running through China’s Friendship Gate Port and Vietnam’s Friendship Port, upgrading and extension of the second bridge of Zuofu Mountain and the Port of Pingxiang Friendship Pass, leveling of the inspection field belonging to China under the ‘two countries, one inspection’ system,and construction of an inspection area of vehicles entering China,” said Wang Fanghong.“Another three projects will also be initiated,including the building of Puzhai-Tan Thanh freight route (Vietnamese section), preliminary work of Nonghuai-Ku Nam freight route, and construction of the railway port designated for importing fruits.” He also mentioned that, the railway port will be put into use within 2018,which can further unlock Pingxiang’s corridors potentials.

In software, the Port of Pingxiang Friendship Pass will try to cut the time for cargo clearance through the single-window platform and intelligent customs clearance system, thus to better serve Pingxiang’s corridor economic development.

Growing port economy via targeted industries

Based on its corridor advantages, Pingxiang has made notable achievements in import and export trade. According to Wang Fanghong, in 2017, the import and export volume of fruits in Pingxiang reached 2.35 million metric tons, representing a year-on-year increase of 15.47 percent. As of May 31, 2018, the number of transactions conducted in the Pingxiang Border Trade Cargo Supervision Center stood at 344,800, posting a 17.09 percent growth on a year-on-year basis;and the volume of transactions of imported and exported goods totaled 1.1775 million metric tons, up by 9.86 percent year-on-year.

Despite the high number of goods transported from and vehicles passing through Pingxiang,there are not many resources left for the city.How can government keep the resources at hand to create more values for local people? Wang Fanghong presented his answer: Developing port economy.

“We will develop port economy through the port processing, logistics, and E-commerce industries,” he said, adding that in terms of port processing, Pingxiang mainly focuses on fruit, electronic and rosewood processing.“Pingxiang has a good foundation for these three major processing industries. At the moment, Pingxiang’s port market has begun to take shape, and the China-ASEAN (Pingxiang)Fruit City and China-ASEAN (Pingxiang)Rosewood International Shopping Center have been put into operation. The city has attracted many enterprises for its ample supply of quality goods and low costs of cross-border labor.”

At present, Pingxiang has attracted a number of enterprises, including Yanjin Shop Food Co.,Ltd., Shandong Shatu Food Co., Ltd., Pingxiang Baixiunong Agricultural and Sideline Products Processing Co., Ltd., and Guangxi Viet Huong Vien Dairy Joint Stock Company. Apart from the booming processing industries, Pingxiang’s E-commerce is also growing.

“Pingxiang has been listed among the‘National Top 100 Counties for E-commerce Development’ for four consecutive years, which greatly boosts our confidence in developing E-commerce and logistics industries. By making use of the geographical location and preferential policies of Guangxi Pingxiang Integrated Free Trade Zone, we are vigorously developing crossborder E-commerce, and standardizing existing micro and small E-commerce enterprises, so as to provide better services for China-ASEAN cross-border trade,” said Wang Fanghong.“We will also unveil incentive policies to support modern logistics, bring in and nurture leading logistics enterprises, and consolidate the resources for existing small enterprises to achieve optimized allocation. In 2017,Overland Total Logistics Co., Ltd. relocated its headquarters to Pingxiang, and JUSDA, a service platform of supply chain management for Foxconn Technology Group, also set up a logistics center here. I believe that logistics,E-commerce and port processing industries will offer new growth drivers for Pingxiang’s future development.”

Mr. Wang Fanghong, Secretary of the CPC Pingxiang Municipal Committee and Executive Deputy Director of Management Committee of Guangxi Pingxiang Integrated Free Trade Zone

Capitalizing on border advantage to develop cultural tourism

In recent years, many border cities have started to develop cross-border tourism with their border resources. As one of the top tourist cities of China, Pingxiang boasts profound history and colorful ethnic and exotic cultures. Hence, it has a sound basis for developing cross-border tourism.According to Wang Fanghong, the number of people passing through the seven border ports of Dongxing amounted to 10.2 million in 2017, with tourist numbers keeping growing steadily.

“Currently, Pingxiang has created several cross-border self-driving tour routes that connect Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar,” he said. “Statistics show that since 2010, the number of self-driving tourist groups passing through the Port of Pingxiang Friendship Pass is 132,with 1,536 self-driving tourist cars and 5,430 tourists. At the same time, we are cultivating inbound tourism market by launching visa upon arrival at the Port of Pingxiang Friendship Pass starting from July 30, 2017. By the end of June 2018, a total of 17,500 Vietnamese tourists came to China with visa upon arrival.

In addition, under the joint efforts of both countries, at the end of July 2018,China and Vietnam officially launched a cross-border self-driving route from Guangxi to Lang Son. From that time on,Chinese self-driving tourist groups exiting from the Port of Pingxiang Friendship Pass can travel to Dong Dang Border Gate Economic Zone in Lang Son; and Vietnamese self-driving tourist groups are allowed to visit Congzuo and Nanning in Guangxi.

Wang Fanghong stated that next,Pingxiang will, on one hand, move forward with the pilot work on Guangxi-Lang Son cross-border self-driving tourism, making proper adjustments, so as to strive for regular operation of the route in 2019. On the other hand, it will try to forge an agreement with Vietnam on granting freedom to choose border ports to tourist groups with People’s Republic of China Entry and Exit Permit(Border Tourism Exclusive), and enabling them to travel at other Vietnamese border provinces, in an attempt to form a Pingxiang-Lang Son-Hanoi-Ha Long-Dongxing tour route. Moreover, Pingxiang will explore and advance the building of Puzhai-Tan Thanh border tourism demonstration zone, delivering the benefits of tourism development to more people.

Gaining popularity through tourism,attracting resources from corridor construction, and driven by industrial development, Pingxiang is sure to write a more splendid chapter in the new ear.