Dongxing on the China-Vietnam border: the cross-border industrial chain is extending

China News Service, Fangchenggang, November 13th, Title: Dongxing on the China-Vietnam border: the cross-border industrial chain is extending

Author Zhai Liqiang Tan Haidong

On the Beilun River in Hebei Province on the China-Vietnam border, trucks traveling in and out line up at the Second Beilun River Bridge at Dongxing Port. On the other side of the bridge, the aroma of burnt coffee floats in the Dongxing Border Economic Cooperation Zone (Dongxing Industrial Park), where coffee beans from Vietnam and other production areas are screened, blended, and roasted into roasted beans, hanging coffee, and coffee powder. A few kilometers away, an electric vehicle manufacturer that was only registered in August this year has started trial production and is holding orders from the Vietnamese market.

(File map) In June 2026, Chinese and Vietnamese trucks passed through the Second Beilun River Bridge at Dongxing Port. (Drone photo) Photo courtesy of Dongxing Media Center

Dongxing is across the river from Mong Cai in Vietnam. Coffee, cashew nuts, spices, and seafood from ASEAN enter through Dongxing Port and are processed locally in Dongxing Industrial Park; electronic products, new energy products, etc. leave the country through this port and are sold to ASEAN. As soon as you enter and exit, a cross-border industrial chain for cross-border processing on the China-Vietnam border has grown up in Dongxing.

"As soon as the machine starts up, the garden is filled with the aroma of coffee." Yang Ying, manager of Guangxi Lagasa Coffee Food Co., Ltd., said that the coffee beans currently entering the factory are mainly Vietnamese beans purchased from the Dabian Village Cooperative in Dongxing. The supply is stable and the border residents have a stable income. At the same time, combined with general trade, the procurement model is flexible, and the blending of coffee beans from multi-producing areas is not a problem.

Cashew nuts, spices, and seafood are Dongxing’s core business. In June this year, a new member of the seafood processing team was added. The seafood processing project of Guangxi Haohao Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. was completed, with an estimated total industrial output value of more than 300 million yuan (RMB, the same below).

There are also new faces on the other side. Guangxi Xinwo Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd. was registered and established in Dongxing Industrial Park in August this year and was put into trial production within three months. "We checked in with our bags." Fan Chuanhao, the person in charge of the company, said that the company is interested in Dongxing's border advantages and service efficiency. It has already received orders for 20,000 electric vehicles from the Vietnamese market.

In the Dongxing Industrial Park Enterprise Life Cycle Service Center, such efficiency has become the norm. On September 30, Dongxing City signed a contract with Jilin Chuangxiang Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. for an intelligent processing and automatic truss manipulator production and manufacturing project. The park will set up a special service team to follow up. The project is expected to be put into trial production at the end of November this year. "The park's attentive agency service saves a lot of time and makes us more confident in deploying high-end equipment manufacturing projects in Dongxing." said Li Guoliang, the person in charge of Chuangxiang Cloud (Fangchenggang) Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

It is understood that by twisting investment promotion, construction and services into a chain, Dongxing has compressed the entire process of seven business start-up matters to 0.5 working days and zero cost; Dongxing Industrial Park has also divided enterprises into three service grids, implemented "one enterprise, one specialist", and called for closed-loop processing.

(File map) Dongxing Industrial Park in November 2026. (Drone photo) Photo courtesy of Dongxing Media Center

The efficiency at both ends of the channel is also aligned, and investment is expanding outward. The construction of the Dongxing Smart Port is accelerating. The Second Beilun River Bridge has achieved regular customs clearance on weekends since March 7 this year, with a daily freight traffic capacity of 3,300 vehicles. Dongxing took the lead in promoting "two-country joint delegations and two-way investment promotion at home and abroad" in China's border areas, and teamed up with Vietnam to form a cross-border investment working group for targeted investment promotion; 16 new manufacturing projects have been signed since 2026.

In recent years, Dongxing has guided enterprises to focus on "China's technology research and development, intensive processing + Vietnam's raw material cultivation, preliminary processing and assembly" to promote the coordinated development of cross-border industrial chains. Dongxing Industrial Park focuses on imported processing and export-oriented manufacturing, building an industrial system dominated by electronic information, textile and light industry, new energy, and featuring food and medicine, and simultaneously cultivating the artificial intelligence industry. There are currently 173 enterprises in the park, including 45 industrial enterprises above designated size; from January to September 2026, the industrial output value above designated size was 4.683 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.61%, accounting for 95.9% of the city's total industrial output value above designated size. At present, projects such as Sino-Vietnamese Processing, Huaxin Aquatic Products, and Mailianghui Food Processing have reached full production. The cashew production line of the China-ASEAN (Fangchenggang) Agricultural Products Intelligent Processing and Distribution Center has been put into operation, and new instant coffee powder processing projects are being planned simultaneously.

"Dongxing's industrial output value has increased from 1 billion yuan in 2021 to 5.7 billion yuan in 2025, which has increased several times in a few years, relying on the policy empowerment of border industrial parks." Mai Yaohai, director of the Dongxing Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, said that the industrial chain on the China-Vietnam border is still extending deeper. (over)