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* Epic reversal! The world is crazy to buy Chinese goods! *
Hollywood's most daring director may not be able to shoot such a big reversal: At the beginning of the year, China was still bleak, living in the "Chernobyl" moment in the eyes of foreign media. By the end of the year, the world was anxiously waiting for containers and freighters from China.
Unexpected, shocked, record-breaking... These are the most frequently used words in foreign media when talking about Chinese exports in the past few months.
Almost people in the world, including the Chinese, did not expect at the beginning of the year that 2020 will end in such a way that the world is crazy to buy Chinese goods.
In the past November, China’s exports grew by 21.1%, and the trade surplus was US$75.4 billion, the highest level since 1981.
Yes, the highest value in 40 years!
Still suspicious? Look at a chart of export value (monthly, in millions of dollars):
Almost from the lowest point in 10 years, V reached the highest point in 10 years.
Not shocking enough? Let’s take a look at the soaring speed of the CCFI (China Export Container Freight Index) index in recent months because of foreigners buying Chinese goods.
In fact, as long as you start from China, whether you go to the east or west coast of the United States or the European Union, the freight rate per container (FEU) is soaring.
Because foreigners order too much, containers are becoming hard to find! In the circle of friends in shipping and foreign trade, the most talked about topics recently are:
Missing box! Missing box! ! Price increase! Price increase! !
Whether Qingdao Port or Shanghai Port, all major ports across the country are now in such a scene:
Containers pile up like a mountain, and overseas customers are anxious.
Sea transportation is blocked, and land transportation is just as tight. In the world's largest small commodity distribution center-Yiwu, Zhejiang, the China-Europe Railway Express will have "full warehouses" in the next 45 days.
As of November 30, Yiwu China-Europe Express has shipped 70,960 TEUs this year, a surge of 105% year-on-year.
Other places are hard to find.
The foreign trade factories first felt this surge. At the beginning of the year, they were unable to receive the order and the capital chain was facing a break. Today, working overtime overnight cannot meet customer needs.
The overseas epidemic is urgent, factories are shut down, and the world's eyes are on China, the only safe island with strong supply guarantee.
In Shenzhen, in the mid-winter season, Jinjin Technology, which produces home coffee machines and other small appliances, is busy in the workshop, the machines are buzzing, and the calls for reminders come and go.
More popular than small appliances are bicycles and furniture.
Affected by the epidemic, public transportation has been suspended in some places, and bicycle travel is popular overseas. Phoenix, Yongjiu... these companies that you thought were already outdated, received orders and received softness.
Furniture factories in Qingdao, Foshan, Dongguan and other places have already arranged their orders until April next year, and some have even filled their orders throughout the year. After all, foreign friends living at home also need a comfortable bed.
Do you think it's just small appliances, furniture and bicycles that are selling hot?
In fact, it is an all-round explosion from medical equipment to personal protection, from electromechanical products to electronic equipment.
Because the orders were too fierce, Chinese factories even led to a blowout in global commodity prices.
In the first half of the year, international crude oil had just hit an unprecedented negative oil price, pitting a certain oil treasure, but in the second half of the year, it sang all the way, rising to above US$45 per barrel.
The iron ore and thermal coal index set a new high in the past ten years.
Today's scene is not easy to come by, because just a few months ago, we held a bad card in our hands. In addition to bleak, it was still bleak.
"Chernobyl moment in China!"
This is a topic that many overseas media enthusiastically discussed when the epidemic was raging in China at the beginning of the year.
At that time, more than 100 Western politicians and social activists, including the former Minister of Justice of Canada, jointly wrote a letter with "expectations" of China's collapse.
At that time, China was experiencing a double blow from the trade war and the epidemic.
Large-scale factories shut down, exports hit the lowest level in ten years, and foreign trade companies and service industries are suffering. Determined to close the city and was discredited overseas. There is a shortage of masks and they have been banned by a few countries.
The United States, India and other countries were also anxiously roaring, and immediately announced the suspension of flights to China.
China has fallen into the darkest moment, but many people are gloating and even ready to move, wanting to replace China as the world's factory.
US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Rose publicly declared: The new crown epidemic will help manufacturing and jobs return to the United States!
India’s Transport Minister Gadkari said bluntly: After the epidemic, China’s global factory status will be weakened and India will attract more investment.
To this end, the Modi government ambitiously set aside 460,000 hectares of land for companies in the United States, Japan, and Europe who want to move from China to India.
However, the plot of the story did not develop in the direction they expected:
The Chernobyl moment in China did not appear, but instead became the Chernobyl moment in some countries.
Wuhan closed the city and 1.4 billion people were banned from their homes... When China made huge sacrifices and finally managed to contain the epidemic, overseas countries began to enter purgatory mode.
When human lives are at stake, some people in the West did not learn China’s anti-epidemic experience for the first time. Instead, they went crazy and "flipped the pot", opening their mouths and saying nothing about "Chinese virus" and "Wuhan virus."
Even on the other side of the Taiwan Strait, they also made a fuss with the yangzi. On a certain TV show, it marked:
Two U.S. lawmakers and an NGO even asked the government to claim 20 trillion U.S. dollars from China and threatened that if China does not compensate, it will use U.S. debt to repay it.
The Henry Jackson Institute, a British think tank, also asked the government to claim 351 billion pounds from China in a report.
Some people in India and Australia, after being equally unwilling, made similar comments.
In the face of hostility, China has not complained about others, but embraced the world with a more positive attitude.
As soon as the epidemic improved, we sent medical aid teams to 34 countries including Italy, Iran, and Serbia. At the same time, factories across the country are running at full capacity to produce medical supplies for the world.
The supreme leader repeatedly emphasized on many occasions that China's opening to the outside world will only increase.
Although the company has been sanctioned and has not been able to reunite with its eldest daughter, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei still emphasized: As long as the US company is willing to supply, Huawei will definitely buy it.
An open China finally ushered in an epic reversal.
By the end of the year, when overseas countries were shut down due to the epidemic, China began to become the hope of the world.
Overtime, non-stop overtime, full load operation!
This is the biggest feeling of the manufacturers in the Yangtze River Delta such as Kunshan Wistron and Lianbao Technology in recent months. In the second half of the year, under the stimulus of the overseas "home economy", sales of mobile phones, laptops and other products soared.
Even the textile industry, which has been sluggish for many years, is busy.
Due to the outbreak of the epidemic, many Indian textile factories were forced to close their doors and could only transfer orders to China.
In Hebei, the person in charge of a textile factory said: "Since September, foreign trade orders have surged, and orders for towels from India alone will produce more than 2 million towels a month."
At the same time foreign trade factories across China are working overtime to catch up work globally, Lowen County, Texas, located in the desert of the western United States, also reported the new crown epidemic.
At this point, the last counties in the United States with zero diagnoses have fallen!
Globally, the new crown virus has caused 70 million infections and nearly 1.6 million deaths. The number of new infections is still soaring at a rate of 600,000 per day!
We can’t imagine what the world would be like if China were to fall like overseas.
Because China has contained the epidemic, the world has maintained normal production capacity, and finally has a respite. In this sense:
The world owes China a thank you!
As the only remaining pieces of pure land in the epidemic, China is also working hard to help the world with the largest production capacity.
When the epidemic first broke out in China, the United States tried every means to make things difficult.
When the outbreak broke out in the United States, China still exported 39.4 billion masks to the United States, an average of 120 for every American.
When the epidemic first broke out in China, India first issued a document banning the export of masks, and then its largest cotton exporter suspended cotton exports.
When the epidemic broke out in India and turned to China to purchase medical supplies, China gave a helping hand regardless of the previous suspicions.
Today, vaccines have become the best hope for all mankind to overcome the new crown epidemic.
However, vaccines that were supposed to benefit all mankind have been looted by a few Western developed countries. The pre-purchase in the UK and Canada is enough for one person in the country to vaccinate more than five times.
The US government recently signed an executive order giving Americans a priority to obtain vaccines.
The only way to get 7.5 billion people around the world out of the epidemic is to expand production. Globally, the only country with such capacity is China.
In fact, just now, vaccines produced in China are being shipped to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Brazil and other countries.
How strong is China's production capacity? This is the car parked in Lianyungang waiting to be exported:
This is the container waiting to be shipped at Shanghai Yangshan Port:
This situation is probably only comparable to the United States during World War II.
At the beginning of the year, or even earlier, many overseas media, scholars and politicians were looking forward to de-sinicization. But at the end of the year, the "New York Daily" sighed helplessly:
"Chinese companies have made a comeback."
With the global buying of Chinese goods, the share of this major eastern country in global trade has not fallen, but has become more stable. And more and more evidence also proves that the new coronavirus did not first appear in China.
This script, which even the most daring director in Hollywood could not conceive, once again vividly interprets an ancient Chinese wisdom:
Teachers, help! God helps those who help themselves!
