Description
China (Fujian) Foreign Trade Centre ( Holdings) is a multi-function foreign trade enterprise subordinated to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation P.R.C. The holdings has, altogether, 23 subsidaries and business representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shantou. There are also solely-owned enterprises, joint -ventures and representative offices in Japan, the U.S.A., U.K., Germany, Australia, Togo, Liberia, Gambia, Ghana, Benin, Mali, Hong Kong and Macao. It is engaged in the export and import of various commodities, including : textiles, minerals and metals, light industrial products, native produce and animal by-products, cereals, oil and foodstuffs, chemicals, machine and electrical appliances, arts and crafts, medicine and health products. It also transacts barter trade, carrying trade, bonded goods, compensation trade and engages in processing supplied materials, assembling of parts and manufacturing from samples. At the same time, the holdings provides services like warehousing, vessel's agency, international transportation, real estate, import and export of vessels, the export of labour service, exhibition, hotel, advertising, professional resources and technical exchange. It also invests in the fields of telecommunication and of computer. For the 4 successive years, the holdings ranks as one of the 500 biggest service enterprises and one of the 100 biggest foreign trade enterprises in China. In 1996, the holdings ranked the first of the foreign trade line within Fujian Province, with a gross import & export value of US$ 336.92 million (a gross import value of US$ 177.15 million, a gross export value of US$ 159.77 million )