Manzhouli leads in vegetable and fruit exports to Russia for fourth year

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2015-03-02

The volume of vegetables and fruits exported from the Manzhouli Land Port in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region to Russia was 390,300 tons, accounting for 42.5 percent of China's total in 2014, up 15 percent year-on-year, according to statistics from Manzhouli customs.

2014 marked the fourth year that Manzhouli led other ports in terms of vegetable and fruit exports to Russia. Nearly 20 large Manzhouli-located enterprises have vegetable and fruit exporting businesses with Russia. Through the Manzhouli Land Port, over 400,000 tons of vegetables and fruits have been exported to the Russian market. It only takes four or five days for fresh vegetables or fruits sourced from North China’s Shandong or South China’s Guangdong to reach dining tables in Russia.

Manzhouli's vegetable and fruit exports have seen two obvious changes. The exports can go further in Russia and have reached the central part of the country, such as Moscow and St Petersburg, as well other European cities. Meanwhile, the varieties of exported vegetables and fruits are becoming more and more diversified.

Manzhouli customs is striving to be China's largest Russia-oriented vegetable and fruit export base. In order to reach this goal, it has started a green channel for such product exports. Other measures for improving customs clearance efficiencies were also implemented by customs.

Edited by Michael Thai