East China Sea Crystal "Going to the Sea"

At 9:00 p.m. on July 25th, at the Donghai Crystal Cross-border E-Commerce Trading Center in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, Jiang Qiuyue went live on time. One year after graduating from university, relying on her English major, her number of fans has exceeded 5,000, and most of them are from countries along the “Belt and Road”.

Like Jiang Qiuyue, there have been 1,623 foreign language anchors who have grown up from the Donghai Crystal Cross-border E-commerce Trading Center in the past four years. They are active in crystal supermarkets of various sizes in Donghai County, Jiangsu Province, and started the "transnational journey" of Donghai Crystal through the shared live broadcast room.

Westbound at the east bridgehead of the New Eurasian Continental Bridge first county The East China Sea is known as the "Crystal Capital of China". There are 37 kinds of minerals found in the territory, including 300,000 tons of crystal reserves and 300 million tons of quartz reserves. There are more than 3,400 crystal processing enterprises in the local area, with an annual output of 30 million pieces of crystal jewelry and 5 million pieces of crystal handicrafts. There are more than 300,000 people engaged in crystal processing, marketing and supporting services. It has become the largest crystal processing company in the world. distribution center. Because of this, the story of "buying the world and selling the world" happens here almost every day.

The freighter departed from Santos Port, Brazil, and arrived at Lianyungang Port, Jiangsu Province after a 50-day ocean voyage. Song Feng from Xingxi Village, Quyang Town, Donghai County, waited for a new batch of white crystal raw materials. After unloading the truck and inspecting the goods, Song Feng picked up the flashlight and carefully checked the light transmittance of the stone. After a while, the word "good" dragged out a long ending, and he was very satisfied with this batch of imported raw materials.

"The processed crystal balls, crystal pillars and other products are sold to many countries in Asia and Europe, and the business is very good." Song Feng said that such development has benefited from the development of cross-border e-commerce under the "Belt and Road" initiative.

In Xingxi Village, where Song Feng lives, in 2020, Zhao Zhonggang, secretary of the general party branch of the village, led the establishment of the "Xingxi Village Crystal E-Commerce Industrial Park", and then built a number of cross-border live broadcast training bases. Through learning and training, the villagers have transformed themselves into anchors with goods. "Currently, the annual output value of crystals in the whole village exceeds 1 billion yuan online and offline, of which the annual output value of cross-border e-commerce is more than 300 million yuan." Zhao Zhonggang said.

Cross-border e-commerce brings unlimited business opportunities, and Zhong Haibing, vice president of Donghai County E-commerce Association, also has a deep understanding of this. Unlike in the past, crystal products were only sold offline through dealers or exhibitions. Since 2016, he has conducted cross-border e-commerce live broadcasts, and his "circle of friends" has gradually expanded to Singapore, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries. Today, its team's annual sales have reached 70 to 80 million yuan.

Last month, Azan from Vietnam made a special trip to visit Zhong Haibing. "International Netizens Meet", Zhong Haibing took him to visit the Donghai Crystal Museum to observe the whole process of crystal processing. After a while, Azan strengthened his confidence in this business and decided to return to China to expand the scale of the crystal shop.

"From simple crystal sales at the beginning to today's frequent cultural and artistic exchanges, live broadcasting is no longer just about displaying goods." In Zhong Haibing's view, the "Belt and Road" in the East China Sea is not only economic and trade exchanges, but also extends to a wider range of In the field of culture and art, "we must introduce the broad and profound Chinese culture to more overseas friends through the Internet."

The collision of culture and industry makes Donghai Crystal the most distinctive symbol of this land, and it also makes more people focus on development here. Since 2019, more and more crystal merchants, college students returning to their hometowns to start businesses, and returning migrant workers have become anchors. Over the years, Donghai County has cultivated more than 6,000 crystal e-commerce talents, and built platforms such as Donghai Live E-commerce Industrial Park, Cross-border E-commerce Trading Center, and Crystal E-commerce Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base. In 2022 alone, Donghai County's crystal sales will exceed 34 billion yuan, of which cross-border e-commerce transactions will reach 3.5 billion yuan.

Relying on the Lianyungang Port to enlarge the "eastward" advantage, and explore the "westward" potential through the New Eurasian Continental Bridge. Facing new development opportunities, Donghai County is actively exploring international industrial cooperation, scientific and technological cooperation, and capital cooperation to strengthen leading industries such as the silicon industry and the food industry, and to optimize specialty industries such as crystal and hot springs, and is committed to cooperating with countries along the "Belt and Road" Conduct exchanges and cooperation with my country's central and western regions in a wider field and at a higher level.

It was already 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, and Jiang Qiuyue was still interacting with fans in fluent English. "Because of the crystals, I made a lot of friends during the live broadcast, and they also look forward to coming to the East China Sea to take a walk and have a look." Jiang Qiuyue said, hoping to use what she has learned to make more dazzling East China Sea crystals "fly into the sky." "To the rest of the world. ( Zhang Yufeng )