Current location:health >>
Seafood trade flourishes in lively border city
health73156People have gathered around
Introduction(Xinhua) 09:07, February 07, 2024Trucks wait to pass the highway port in Hunchun City, northeast Chi ...
Trucks wait to pass the highway port in Hunchun City, northeast China's Jilin Province, June 26, 2023. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
CHANGCHUN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- With Chinese New Year fast approaching, the seafood trade in the northeastern border city of Hunchun is booming, earning it the nickname "capital of king crabs" among netizens -- even though it's landlocked.
Before 2017, the city's seafood traders would route imports through ports in South Korea or Japan. But everything changed in 2017 with the opening of a new sea-land freight route that connected the inland city to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Zarubino Port, drastically reduced the costs associated with importing seafood, making it a more viable and affordable option.
Every day, trucks fully loaded with fresh imports enter the city via a land checkpoint bordering Russia. Seafood shops flank the central business street in downtown Hunchun, northeast China's Jilin Province.
The Russian king crab, also known as the Kamchatka crab, is the star product.
"In addition to in-store purchases, the crabs are ordered via the shop's account on livestreaming platforms. We sell hundreds of crabs a day," said Wang Kaichao, a local seafood shop owner.
He said through railway or aviation logistics networks, wholesalers in Hunchun can promise a same-day delivery of the fresh crabs to buyers in Beijing, which is about 1,500 km away.
Photographs showing tourists holding a colossal king crab or savoring seafood has helped catapult Hunchun to online viral fame.
While promoting its new celebrity status as the "capital of king crabs," Hunchun has vigorously stimulated cross-border e-commerce and the seafood processing industry.
In 2023, the output value of the city's seafood processing industry surged by 20.4 percent year on year to reach 1.4 billion yuan (about 195 million U.S. dollars).
The city has planned to build a fresh seafood industrial park with its business radiation to the Northeast Asian countries. Once completed, it is expected to boast a temporary live-storage capacity of 500 tonnes of fresh products and a cold storage capacity up to 30,000 tonnes of seafood.
Zhu Xiaodan, the person in charge of the Yanbian Hasang Fishery Import & Export Co., Ltd., said the company's business has benefitted from the city's development of the seafood trade. The company needs to optimize its seafood logistic service to cope with the rising demand for the fresh seafood products across the country.
Tags:
Reprint:Friends are welcome to share on the Internet, but please indicate the source of the article when reprinting it.“World Watchers news portal”。http://iraq.cassettedesign.com/html-8a399903.html
Related articles
US defender John Brooks to leave German club Hoffenheim
healthSINSHEIM, Germany (AP) — United States defender John Brooks is set to leave German Bundesliga club H ...
【health】
Read moreCelebratory Atmosphere Ahead of 25th Anniv. of Hong Kong's Return to Motherland
healthContact Us HomeNewsHighlightACWF NewsSocietyWom ...
【health】
Read moreChina to Establish National Park at Qinghai Lake
healthContact Us HomeNewsHighlightACWF NewsSocietyWom ...
【health】
Read more
Popular articles
- Turkish Airlines resumes flights to Afghanistan nearly 3 years after the Taliban captured Kabul
- 14th Straits Forum Kicks off in Xiamen, E China
- Over 25 Mln Foreigners Learning Chinese by End of 2021: Education Ministry
- China Tops World in Number of World Natural Heritage Sites
- Kansas takes control in the ninth and beats Kansas State in the opener of the Big 12 Tournament
- China Beats Turkey in Women's Volleyball Nations League
Latest articles
Russia begins nuclear drills in an apparent warning to West over Ukraine
China to Make All
Chinese Lawmakers Deliberate Report on Boosting Children's Health
School in Hangzhou Greets International Tea Day
New Zealand Black Caps fans look to Twenty20 World Cup with hope, trepidation
Maritime Day of China Marked in NE China's Liaoning
LINKS
- Harbin war museum sees soaring visits
- 75 years on, a stronger PLA Navy to contribute more to world peace
- China's Shenzhou
- Deforestation in Indonesia spiked last year, but resources analyst sees better overall trend
- China's new high
- Brunei welcomes 1st Chinese tourist group in 3 years
- Mainland urges Taiwan to resume direct cross
- Hong Kong transgender activist gets ID card reflecting gender change after yearslong legal battle
- Seasonal 'rocket chasers' ignite aerospace tourism boom in China
- Europe, China could be partners for boosting electrification in auto industry