Mung bean trade between China and Uzbekistan
On May 15, China's first special train of mung beans imported from Uzbekistan was unpacked and inspected at the only designated grain entry port in China's inland
area - the Xi'an Port Grain Port. After passing the inspection and quarantine, it will be put on the national market.
This batch of imported mung beans was divided into 41 containers weighing 1,066 tons. They were loaded from Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and arrived at
Xi'an Port at 10:00 am on May 11 after passing through the Khorgos Port, with a total distance of 4,667 kilometers. This also marks the first time that Uzbekistan
mung beans have entered China through the Central Asia train.
Uzbekistan has plenty of sunshine and fertile soil, which is suitable for growing mung beans. Mung beans do not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and are
safe and healthy green products. In order to implement the "Belt and Road" initiative and meet the growing consumption needs of ordinary people, on January
8, 2018, my country released the access to Uzbekistan mung beans.
"In the past, China imported mung beans by sea from Myanmar and other countries, and the transportation cycle took about one month. Now it is imported from
Uzbekistan, and it takes 8 days to take the Central Asia special train to reach Xi'an Port, and the customs clearance is very efficient. Under the condition that the
transportation cost is basically the same, Railway transportation is more efficient.” Chen Guanghong, general manager of the importer Wanbangyou, introduced
that the price of imported mung beans is equivalent to 70% of the domestic price. This batch of mung beans is mainly used for food processing, and plans to
expand the import scale. to the whole country.
According to Ma Yue, an on-site staff member of Xi’an Customs, as the original inspection and quarantine functions have been transferred to the customs, now
enterprises only need to go through one electronic declaration window for customs declaration and inspection and quarantine. more than half. In the next step,
the customs will test the batch of mung beans for impurities, fungi, and whether they contain harmful organisms in the laboratory, and release them after they
pass the test.
It is also known that at the end of 2015, Xi'an Port was officially approved as a designated port for imported grain, becoming the only designated port for imported
grain in China's inland areas. Up to now, a total of 6,761 tons of grain have been imported. The import of Uzbekistan mung beans this time not only strengthened
trade with countries along the “Belt and Road”, but also enriched the food consumption market in Shaanxi and even China. This is also an important manifestation
of trade facilitation in the Shaanxi Free Trade Zone.
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