Understand local samples of foreign trade transformation from the AI track

The General Administration of Customs released the latest statistics today. In the first 10 months of this year, my country's import and export of goods trade increased by 20% year-on-year, maintaining a strong growth trend. Shanghai is an important foreign trade port in my country. With the help of the CIIE, we can see what national foreign trade characteristics are reflected in Shanghai's foreign trade pattern?

The popularity of the AI ​​exhibition area at the CIIE is a fresh sample of the national foreign trade data for the first 10 months released today.

For the first time, this CIIE has set up artificial intelligence as an independent display section, and the world's first new products are also gathered together: an AI face translation live broadcast platform that can synchronize mouth movements and expressions, an AI cultural relic restoration 3D generation platform, non-invasive brain-computer interface, etc. The most intuitive feeling is that AI is no longer just a concept demonstration - computing hardware, intelligent terminals, and industry solutions appear on the same stage, pointing to industrial scenes and daily life.

Data confirms: Shanghai’s AI product import and export are experiencing high growth in both directions

The excitement on the booth will eventually fall into the trade account. The weight can be seen in one sentence: Shanghai's imports of seven categories of AI-related products increased by 58.1% in the first three quarters, and exports increased by 70.3%. The growth in imports shows that domestic demand for high-end computing hardware is real; the faster growth in exports shows that domestic AI equipment has begun to be sold overseas on a large scale.

Shanghai samples reflect the whole country: AI is reshaping the foreign trade structure

Looking at this set of growth rates in the industrial chain, the conclusion is clearer. Behind the Shanghai port is the AI ​​division of labor in the Yangtze River Delta. High-end chips and storage components come in from overseas, complete machine integration and solution development locally and in surrounding areas, and then go out in the form of smart terminals, robots, and industry equipment. When this logic is extended to the whole country, the principle is the same: if parts and components can come in and complete machines can go out, the increase in foreign trade will naturally follow.

Such an efficient import and export path is also supported by policies. Starting from January 1 this year, the customs has set up an exclusive import and export tax number for this type of intelligent bionic robots, solving the problem of confusing classification in the past and making overseas customs clearance smoother.