Fuzhou, January 12 (China News Service reporter Yan Xu) -- According to a press conference held in Fuzhou on the 12th, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the trade volume between Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone and Taiwan achieved a leapfrog growth, with an average annual growth rate of 21.7% in import and export volume with Taiwan.
The tenth press conference in the series "Striving for Excellence in China's Modernization and Writing a New Chapter in the Construction of a New Fujian" was held in Fuzhou on the same day.
At the press conference, Huang Jianbo, Director of the Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone Management Committee, introduced that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Pingtan's economic and trade cooperation with Taiwan continued to heat up, becoming one of the ports with the largest import volume of agricultural and fishery products from Taiwan, and its cross-border e-commerce business with Taiwan ranked among the top in mainland China. The first online product selection and trading center for Taiwan—the 1688 Pingtan Cross-Strait Product Selection Center—opened, making it convenient for Taiwanese consumers to purchase mainland goods.
Pingtan has achieved full coverage of direct passenger and cargo shipping with major ports in northern, central and southern Taiwan. It has put into operation Fujian's first cross-border e-commerce general export return center warehouse. The port's trade volume with Taiwan has increased from RMB 9.1 billion in 2020 to approximately RMB 15 billion in 2025, with an average annual growth of 10.5%. The volume of cross-border e-commerce bonded import business has remained the highest in Fujian Province.
The "Pingtan-Taiwan" sea-air intermodal transport corridor has achieved regular operation, establishing a multimodal logistics channel connecting inland China, Pingtan, Taiwan, and the international market. According to Wen Xuelin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Pingtan's total import and export volume reached 81.3 billion yuan (RMB), a 1.2-fold increase compared to the 13th Five-Year Plan period. The categories of goods in the cross-strait small-scale commodity trading market have expanded from 6 major categories and 33 items to 7 major categories and 50 items, further solidifying Pingtan's foundation as an important platform for cross-strait economic and trade cooperation. (End)
