China's Dongguan streamlines transportation, customs procedures to ensure timely delivery of fresh lychees

Dongguan City in south China's Guangdong Province, a well-known lychee producer, has streamlined transportation and customs clearance procedures to ensure the timely delivery of these sweet fruits to international clients.

At a local lychee orchard, workers quickly sort freshly picked lychees. After sorting, the fruits are immediately packed and loaded onto a logistics vehicle that is on standby.

The vehicle then heads directly to the airport, where the lychees are loaded onto a cargo plane and delivered to clients in Singapore the following day.

As the shelf life of freshly harvested lychees is only about two days, in order to achieve “next-day delivery,” express delivery companies deploy personnel directly to orchards to handle on-site customs declarations, with dedicated staff overseeing the process from customs clearance to final delivery.

"Previously, we used a customs transfer process, which took about two to three days for delivery. Now that the procedure has been streamlined, the lychees can be flown directly from the Shenzhen port to Singapore. Lychees picked today can be delivered the next morning, matching the delivery speed for domestic destinations," said Zhao Xiaochuan, head of the international business department at a delivery company.

Guangdong is one of the world’s largest lychee producers, with one out of every three lychees globally coming from the province.

In recent years, Guangdong’s annual lychee exports have exceeded 8,000 tons, accounting for more than 55 percent of China’s total exports.

China's Dongguan streamlines transportation, customs procedures to ensure timely delivery of fresh lychees

At the invitation of the government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Jiang Xinzhi, Chinese President Xi Jinping's special envoy and vice chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the inauguration ceremony of Myanmar's President Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyidaw on Friday.

Min Aung Hlaing met with Jiang on the same day.

Noting that the pauk-phaw (fraternal) friendship between China and Myanmar has a long history, Jiang said the two countries have long enjoyed a harmonious relationship and mutual assistance, which fully demonstrates the profound significance of the China-Myanmar community with a shared future. China supports Myanmar in pursuing a development path that suits its own national conditions, Jiang said, adding that the country is willing to work with Myanmar to deepen high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, maintain stability along the China-Myanmar border, and ensure the safety of Chinese personnel and projects in Myanmar.

For his part, Min Aung Hlaing expressed gratitude for China's long-term and valuable assistance to Myanmar's economic and social development.

Myanmar firmly adheres to the one-China principle and supports the four global initiatives proposed by China, Min Aung Hlaing said.

The president pledged that Myanmar would make every effort to ensure China's security interests in the country, and expressed Myanmar's willingness to deepen practical cooperation with China across various fields.

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