The Mohan border market is the first project to have been completed and put into operation since Mohan Town was entrusted to Kunming. With an area of 125.6 acres, the market has been scientifically planned and reasonably laid out, playing an significant role in solving port traffic congestion, improving port functions, and enhancing port trade carrying capacity.
Data shows that from January to June 2023, the total trade volume of Mohan frontier's exchange marketing reached 810,600 tons, with a trade value of 2.76 billion yuan, rising by 5.69 percent and 22.17 percent year-on-year, respectively.
"The new market is very convenient. We can now declare imported goods online at home." said Yi Guangrong, a resident of Mohan. Nowadays, many border residents in Mohan engage in the trade of imported goods from Laos.
Currently, the main imported goods in the border market include bananas, watermelons, fresh edamame, pumpkins, fresh passion fruits, cassava starch, and ginger; the main exported commodities are daily necessities, fresh vegetables, and processed food products.
In the first half of the year, a total of 151,935 individuals have participated in marketing activities.
“The border market is an important measure to benefit the people, neighboring relationships, the development of the border area, and to safeguard border security.” said the relevant person in charge of the market.
With the Internet, a nationwide unified management system for border marketing, and centralized declaration, border residents can declare goods through the Border Pass App online, improving the efficiency of declaration and clearance, and expanding the scope of frontier’s exchange marketing.
In the future, taking the policy advantage of being the 29th national import trade promotion innovation demonstration zone, the Mohan-Boten Economic Cooperation Zone between China and Laos will promote the reform of frontier’s exchange marketing.
By giving full play to the pivotal role of border residents’ cooperative societies, it will actively construct secondary trading markets for frontier’s exchange marketing and achieve a comprehensive service for landing and processing, cold chain warehousing, and logistics supply chain in frontier’s exchange marketing.
The Mohan border market will truly ensure that policy dividends benefit border residents, promote the stable and healthy development of landing and processing, and truly benefit the border area and the people while provide value-added services to the local taxation office.
