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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, July 21 (Xinhua) — Trucks loaded with king crabs and other seafood line up at the Hunchun port in northeast China's Jilin Province in the height of summer to clear customs before entering China.
Truck driver Chen Chen said he can transport up to four tons of king crabs at a time.
According to the Zhongxinshe news agency, more than 1.5 million units of Kamchatka crabs from Russia are imported into China through the Hunchun checkpoint every year, which accounts for about 80 percent of the country's total market. Hunchun has truly become a key gateway for China to import this seafood delicacy.
With the continuous improvement of cross-border logistics and transportation efficiency in recent years, Russian-produced Kamchatka crabs have become part of the daily life of Chinese people.
Over the past decade, Kamchatka crabs have been sold not only in northeast China, but also served on tables in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
To meet the high market demand, Hunchun City also focused on promoting the Northeast Asia Fresh Seafood Park project with a total investment of over 600 million yuan (about 83.6 million US dollars).
The park will not only be used for temporary storage of imported seafood, but also to stimulate the development of processing trade to build an important hub for processing and distributing fresh seafood in northern China, said Liu Yansong, head of the park.
Now tasting king crabs has become a tourist specialty of Hunchun.
Previously, imported Russian king crabs had to be transported to China via Busan, a city in the southeast of the Republic of Korea. After Hunchun was approved as a specialized checkpoint for importing chilled seafood and edible aquatic animals, this “golden corridor” for importing king crabs into the country was opened. In addition, the Kamchatka-Zarubino-Hunchun route made the transportation of aquatic products between China and Russia more stable and uninterrupted.
To ensure the freshness of imported seafood, Hunchun Customs has opened a "green channel" to provide inspection and release services by appointment all year round and around the clock, speeding up customs clearance.
In recent years, Chinese consumers' interest in Russian Kamchatka crabs has grown rapidly. According to the General Administration of Customs of China, the total value of China's imports of live, fresh and frozen crabs from Russia exceeded US$1.14 billion last year, up 16.7 percent from the previous year. -0-
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