Nanning, China News Service, July 22 nd Title: The Growth of ASEAN Fruits in China: From "Luxury Goods" to "Explosive Prices"

　　Author Zhong Jianshan Huang Cong

　　In the hot midsummer night, in the night market food street in Pingxiang, a border town between China and Vietnam, a small shop named "Hu Xishi Fruit Fishing" is the most lively scene. Diners from all over China queue up to buy a bowl of authentic Southeast Asian fruit fishing.

　　The clerk quickly diced fresh tropical fruits and put them in a transparent glass bowl, covered with corn kernels, red beans and shredded coconut, poured two spoonfuls of thick and fragrant condensed milk, and a bowl of refreshing and sweet fruit fishing can be served.

　　"Fruit fishing is a hot item in Pingxiang. The fruit is fresh and varied, and it tastes delicious and fragrant." Luo Zi, a frequent visitor to Hu Xishi’s fruit fishing shop, said that a bowl of fruit fishing brought together fruits from many countries in Southeast Asia was only sold in 10 yuan RMB, which was "too cost-effective".

　　Pingxiang is the most convenient land route from China to Viet Nam and even ASEAN countries, and has maintained the status of "China’s largest fruit import and export city" for five consecutive years. Every year, more than 1 million tons of fruits are imported and exported from Pingxiang Friendship Pass and Puzhai Port, with more than 500,000 tons of imported fruits. Every 500 grams of ASEAN fruits entering China are imported through Pingxiang.

　　"In the past, the cost of importing fruits from Southeast Asia to China was high, the cold chain logistics network was not perfect, and the border clearance time was long, which led to the high price of fruits in Southeast Asia in China." Chen Renqi, general manager of Guangxi Hongguihua Import and Export Trading Co., Ltd., said in an interview with a reporter from China News Service that his company has been engaged in the import trade of Vietnamese dragon fruit for 22 years, during which he witnessed the change of fruits in Southeast Asia from "luxury goods" to "explosive prices".

　　Chen Renqi said that because the pitaya with white fruit pulp has the advantage of low sugar, the early import of pitaya from Vietnam was mainly aimed at domestic diabetic patients and high-end consumers. With China — With the establishment of ASEAN Free Trade Area, China and ASEAN countries have strengthened cooperation in customs clearance and transportation interconnection, and a large number of fruits from Southeast Asia, such as pitaya, began to enter China. As the import cost is gradually decreasing, the sales price of pitaya in China is increasingly "close to the people", and it has entered the family recipes of ordinary people.

　　"In the past, Vietnamese dragon fruit had to enter China Port, and it took one day to go through various customs clearance procedures such as inspection and quarantine, and it took two or three days to go through, which was very costly. Now the customs clearance time has been reduced to one hour, which is too convenient. " Chen Renqi said that there is a great demand for fruits from Southeast Asia in the China market. Apart from traditional sales channels such as farmers’ markets and supermarkets, emerging industries such as chain juice shops, theme restaurants and fruit experience halls with tropical fruits from ASEAN as their main products have also developed rapidly, enriching the dietary choices of China consumers.

　　In Pingxiang City, new dishes of Chinese food mixed with ASEAN fruits such as stewed pork ribs with peaches, steamed pear, stewed chicken soup with grapes and fried beef with dragon fruit have become the "new favorites" of local people in recent years. Recently, the fruit specialty restaurant and fruit experience center in China Pingxiang, the first fruit city in ASEAN, officially opened its doors for guests. The local official plans to deeply integrate the fruit trade industry with the tourism industry, and make the one-stop shopping and special fruit meals of ASEAN special fruits a new highlight on the tourist route of Friendship Pass.

　　In order to meet the domestic market demand, Chen Renqi’s company has set up several directly affiliated factories and several agent factories in Vietnam. Among them, the factory directly under Panche City, Vietnam is the largest, which can produce 15 containers of pitaya every day. Every year, the company imports pitaya from Vietnam with a total value of 1.5 billion yuan, and fresh fruit is in short supply in China.

　　"We are exploring more kinds of fruit products and sales channels in Southeast Asia." Chen Renqi said that in addition to pitaya, Vietnamese red meat jackfruit has been welcomed by consumers in China in recent years, and the company has also started import business. In Cambodia, the price of local mango fresh fruit has a great advantage over that of China. The company invested 40 million yuan to set up a dried mango processing factory in Cambodia. The dried mango products were transported through Sihanoukville Port, passed through Ho Chi Minh Port in Vietnam to Qinzhou Port in China, and then distributed to all parts of China. At present, the annual output value of dried mangoes exceeds 50 million yuan.

　　Chen Renqi said that more and more China enterprises are joining the fruit industry in ASEAN, which means that the amount of ASEAN fruits entering the China market will continue to expand in the future. In the increasingly perfect environment of international agricultural cooperation and market competition, ASEAN fruit in China "will not increase its quantity, but its quality will be continuously optimized". (End)

On March 29th, Beijing time, let’s take a look at the latest situation of the international competition day.

Spain 0-2 away to Scotland

In the second round of Group A of the European Cup qualifiers, McTominay made two consecutive double rings. Spain lost to Scotland 0-2 away, and gave up the top position in the group after swallowing the first defeat. This 0-2 game ended Spain’s five unbeaten games against Scotland. The last time they lost to Scotland was in the preliminaries in November 1984. It has been 39 years since then, when they lost 1-2 away.

Argentina home 7-0 Cura? ao

In the international friendly match, 35-year-old Messi wore a hat at half time, Gonzalez, Enzo, Di Maria and Montiel successively made contributions, and Argentina beat Cura? ao, a weak team in Central and North America, 7-0 at home. Messi reached the milestone of the national team’s 100 goals, and the total number of goals rose to 102. Cristiano Ronaldo, the world football national team goal record holder, still has a gap of 20 goals.

Germany home 2-3 Billytime

In the international friendly match, carrasco, Lu Kaku and De Braune each scored a goal, and Belgium beat Germany 3-2. Four days ago, Belgium just beat Sweden 3-0 in the European preliminaries. On this international competition day, Belgium won two consecutive victories and scored three goals in both games.

Japan 1-2 Colombia, South Korea 1-2 Uruguay

Japan and South Korea, the two top teams in Asia, both lost 1-2. Japan was reversed by Colombia, and South Korea was beaten by Uruguay with two goals. On this international competition day, Japan, South Korea and China were all 1 draw and 1 loss. China’s opponents in the two men’s soccer matches were both New Zealand, while Japan and South Korea were Colombian and Uruguayan.

At 20 o’clock on the evening of October 29th, Beijing time, in the 10th round of Ligue 1 in the 2023-24 season, Paris Saint-Germain challenged brest away. In the first half, 17-year-old Zaire emeri broke the deadlock with a long-range shot, and then Li Gangren assisted Mbappé to expand the score and Mounie pulled back a goal; In the second half, brest equalized the score with a corner kick, and Mbappé finished the winner with a penalty in the 89th minute. In the end, Paris Saint-Germain beat brest 3-2 and rose to the second place in the standings.

In the 3rd minute, Paris broke into the opponent’s restricted area. Li Gangren’s shot was blocked by goalkeeper Bizot, and then his teammate’s supplementary shot was confiscated by Bizot. In the 6th minute, emeri received a return volley from his right foot at the top of the arc, and Bizot saved the ball with his fists. In the 13th minute, Donaruma passed the ball from the backcourt directly to the opponent, but the cross from the brest player directly crossed the bottom line.

In the 16th minute, emeri received a cross from his teammates in front of the penalty area. He passed a defender and came to the penalty area and slammed the door with his right foot. The ball was like a shell, and Bizot could do nothing. Paris was 1-0 brest.

In the 22nd minute, Li Gangren volleyed vigorously from the right side of the restricted area, and Bizot held the ball out of the crossbar.In the 28th minute, taking advantage of brest’s massive pressure, Paris fought back. Li Gangren picked up the ball in the backcourt and passed it to Mbappé. The latter caught the ball and formed a single-handed trend. He entered the left side of the penalty area and missed the defender. His right foot shot low and scored near the corner. Paris scored 2-0 in brest.

In the 41st minute, Mbappé received a cross shot from his right foot at the top of the arc, and Bizot saved the ball again.In the 44th minute, brest pulled back a goal, and the high ball on the right side of the frontcourt passed to the middle. Mounie in the restricted area pressed the Parisian defender to head the ball, and the ball bounced to the net, but Donaruma couldn’t save it. Brest 1-2 Paris.At the end of the first half, Paris temporarily took the lead.

In the second half, change sides and fight again.In the 52nd minute, brest’s right corner kicked into the restricted area, and Ledoualon, who was in front of him, headed the ball back, and the ball flew into the far corner. Donaruma’s whip was not as long as brest’s 2-2 Paris.

In the 57th minute, Mba took the ball to the left side of the restricted area, and shot wide from the far corner with his right foot. In the 62nd minute, Fabian Ruiz stopped the ball in front of the restricted area and buckled the defender, and the long corner was slightly missed. In the 64th minute, Paris stepped up its attack, and Enrique changed into Dembele and Muani.

In the 68th minute, brest got the chance, and the right side of the frontcourt shot the ball into the restricted area, but Ledoualon, who was in the back, outflanked the shot and kicked it. In the 70th minute, brest’s two shots in the restricted area were quite threatening, both of which were resolved by Donaruma. In the 74th minute, the Parisian frontcourt got a chance, but Dembele didn’t stop the ball in the restricted area and was cleared by the opponent’s defender.

In the 75th minute, Vitinia got the ball on the left side of the penalty area, which was quite threatening. Bizot got the ball sideways. In the 83rd minute, Muani in the restricted area tripped after passing the ball on the left side of the Paris frontcourt. The referee watched VAR on the sidelines and awarded a penalty. Because of the conflict caused by this penalty, many players from two teams got yellow cards.

Mbappé took the penalty. His first shot was saved by the goalkeeper, but Mbappé immediately made up the shot and scored the ball. Paris led brest 3-2, which was the 89th minute of the game.

In the end, the whole game ended and Paris Saint-Germain beat brest 3-2.