On March 1, 2024, the 32nd East China Fair kicked off in Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC).Jiangsu Provincial Foreign Trade Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "JSFT") participated in the fair for the first time as a cross-border e-commerce. Cross-border e-commerce is a highlight and an important part of this year's East China Fair.The leadership of JSFT attaches great importance to it, and in the morning of the same day, Li Juqiang, Chairman and General Manager, and Sheng Yakun, Deputy General Manager , went to the exhibition hall to guide the work.

JSFT exhibited three main categories of commodities, including metal mineral resources, light industry and textile, and new energy. The exhibits in the metal mineral resources category are mainly titanium ore and titanium dioxide; the exhibits in the light industry and textile category are mainly a wide range of home textile products including pots, comforters, bedding sets, blankets, and pet products; and the exhibits in the new energy category are mainly the sales, technical support and project consulting of photovoltaic modules and other products. As a rare metal, titanium is widely used in traditional fields such as chemical industry, electric power, metallurgy, salt production and new fields such as aerospace, biomedicine, information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, etc., and it is known as "space metal", "ocean metal" and "all-purpose metal". Titanium dioxide, one of the most important downstream products of titanium concentrate, is also widely used in coatings, inks, paper, plastics, rubber, chemical fiber, ceramic and other industries.JSFT in the past two years to cultivate titanium ore series business, has initially formed a preliminary industrial chain from the import of titanium ore, to titanium concentrate commissioned processing, and then to the export of titanium dioxide. Titanium ore imports in 2023 ranked first in the province, the country's forefront.The pot products are one of the key export products of JSFT, which sell well in EU, Canada, Middle East, Japan, India and other countries, and we have established close strategic cooperative relationships with many top supermarkets, distributors, department store chains and pot brands around the world.After nearly two decades of development, the home textile business has formed a multifunctional integrated model integrating research and development, production, sales, import and export trade, etc. All types of products are well-priced with good market competitiveness, and through the cooperation with brand names and overseas importers, the products are sold to major overseas brick-and-mortar superstores, as well as online e-commerce platforms such as Amazon.The photovoltaic business has established good cooperative relationships with a number of well-known photovoltaic companies in Europe, North America and Asia, and has shipped more than 10GW in total.

At present, the global economic and trade pattern has undergone profound changes, and China has entered a new stage of constructing a new pattern of foreign trade development and promoting the high-quality development of foreign trade.In the context of the deep empowerment of digitalization, China's foreign trade shows a new style of transformation and development.JSFT will focus on the implementation of the development goal of Soho Holdings Group to create a world-class enterprise, in the process of solidly promoting the construction of the supply chain system, to seize the new opportunities for the development of cross-border e-commerce, to explore the practice path of the traditional trade model docking digital trade, to take advantage of the integrated e-commerce service platform resources, to cultivate new forms of business, to create a new advantage in the competition, to speed up the promotion of the transformation from a traditional trader to the comprehensive service provider for the whole industry chain.