North Korea Opens Up and Brings in Chinese Vaping Products
North Korea accelerates entry into reform and opening up. In 2018, CCTV News cited Xinhua on April 21 that the Third Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea held on April 20 decided that starting April 21, 2018, Nor
North Korea accelerates reform and opening up
In 2018, CCTV News quoted KCNA News on April 21 that the third plenary meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers 'Party of Korea held on April 20 decided that starting from April 21, 2018, North Korea would suspend nuclear testing and intercontinental ballistic missile testing, and abandoned the northern nuclear test site.
At the same time, Kim Jong Un announced a new strategic line: North Korea will concentrate all its efforts on developing the economy, which triggered market expectations that North Korea will open up to the outside world and expectations for the economic development of northeastern China.
This is indeed the case. Economically, in recent years, North Korea has gradually implemented some reform measures and adjusted its domestic and external economic policies. For example, foreign exchange vouchers have been cancelled, the prices of grain and daily necessities have been greatly increased, economic and trade zones, tourist and sightseeing zones have been established, and the Korea National Development Bank and Dafong International Investment Group have been established to carry out large-scale investment promotion. At the same time, we began to develop Weihua Island and Huangjinping Island, which are adjacent to Dandong City, China. Therefore, our country's ties with North Korea have also become closer in recent years.
North Korea's procurement team has strong interest in China's e-cigarettes
Recently, the China-North Korea Cross-Border Trade Resources Docking and Exchange Conference jointly organized by Win-Win Holding Group and Dandong Guomen Bay Mutual Trade Zone came to a perfect conclusion at the Shenyang New World Expo Hall. The Deputy Minister of Commerce of North Korea led relevant representatives from the Ministry of Commerce of North Korea, the Association of International Exchange Associations, and the Korean Trading Society to attend the meeting. The meeting held on-site exchanges on hot issues such as China-North Korea trade, procurement, and product selection. The "big steam master" was invited to attend this meeting.
During the meeting, the North Korean procurement delegation visited the Dandong exhibition hall of Guomen Cloud Shopping Mall. Facing the dazzling array of daily necessities, electrical appliances, and small commodities in the exhibition hall, the North Korean delegation frequently stopped to watch and inquire, showing novel expressions from time to time. For North Korea, which has just reformed and opened up, many goods are unfamiliar, fresh, and full of curiosity to the Korean people. Especially for those new products made in China and launched on the market in recent years, the North Korean people have shown extreme interest and affection.
During the visit, the Vice Minister of Commerce of North Korea became very interested in e-cigarette products. He also picked up the bink e-cigarette products and asked the staff of Dazhengjia. The staff of Dazhengjia introduced the brand concept, functions and effects of bink e-cigarettes to the Vice Minister of Commerce of North Korea in detail, and explained to him the current situation and prospects of e-cigarettes in China. The other party agreed and gave high praise.
Bink takes the lead in seizing the North Korean market
The product that bink unveiled at the exchange meeting this time was the bink mini disposable steam wand, which is also a disposable cigarette. There are eight flavors and eight colors, and the shape is fashionable and beautiful, which has attracted the interest and praise of the North Korean purchasing group.
It is understood that in the first half of the year, Zhong Yunzhao, CEO of bink Ice Shell Technology, has been busy traveling to many overseas countries, focusing on in-depth market research. Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Dubai are all involved. He not only participated in the e-cigarette exhibition to learn about new products and new technologies, but also went deep into the local Chinese community to contact relevant cooperation matters. This time, ice shell technology responded to the national strategy and made bink ice shell products appear at the Dandong China-North Korea Cross-Border Trade Resources Matchmaking and Exchange Conference, taking the lead in seizing the North Korean market. It can be seen that bink ice shell wants to speed up its pace and use both methods in domestic and foreign markets. The deployment of bink ice shells in overseas markets is not achieved overnight. If you want to fulfill its brand mission and become a new choice for the world's 1 billion smokers to improve their health, in addition to firmly occupying a place in the domestic market, you are sure to go abroad.
In the early days of my country's reform and opening up
Forty years ago, China experienced the same era of reform and opening up. In more than 40 years, the GDP has increased more than 30 times. The people of China have witnessed a miracle of moving from a closed planned economic system to opening up and realizing the world's second largest economy. Nowadays, many of the commodities we take for granted come from overseas countries with mature market economies. These products have strong cultural attributes, so when they first entered China 40 years ago, their novel and fashionable characteristics quickly attracted many China consumers.# p#pagination title #e#
The first is the change in clothing. Changes in clothing are the foundation of people's spiritual outlook. In the 1980s, young women who were still wearing dacron shirts began to wear bright red skirts and shiny leather shoes. The boys studied McHarris wearing exaggerated gecko glasses in the American science fiction movie "People from the Atlantic", and their hearts seemed to have become the personable protagonist on the screen. In addition, bell-bottom pants and break dancing were popular standards in the city at that time.
On November 20, 1987, China's first KFC opened on Qianmen Street, Beijing. On that day, customers who go to eat (visit) need to wait at least two hours. On weekends, there are more than 400 meters of queues outside the restaurant, and police are even needed to maintain law and order. This sounds incredible. Compared with today's era when children can order food at any time on their mobile phones, Qianmen KFC 40 years ago was a veritable Internet celebrity restaurant, and Colonel Sanders at the door was the holy place to check in. This is the first invasion of foreign fast food into China, and it is also a commemoration of the official landing of Western food culture in the mainland of China.
Current situation of smokers in North Korea
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released in the "2015 World Report on Smoking Reality" that as of December 2014, the smoking rate among North Korean men was surveyed to be 43.9%, although it was 8.4 percentage points lower than the 52.3% in December 2012., but it ranks 10th among 18 Asian countries.
Therefore, North Korea has been actively carrying out anti-smoking activities over the years. North Korea enacted the Tobacco Control Law in 2005, which incorporated items such as prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors, prohibiting students from smoking, and establishing non-smoking areas into the law to encourage smoking bans. They even used North Korean women's shouts to promote anti-smoking, but with little effect.
In 2016, a number of new anti-smoking research and universal education bases were built in various provincial capitals across the country. North Korean government officials at all levels have taken the lead in banning smoking in public places. As of May 19, 2016, no North Korean government personnel have been seen smoking in photos and videos broadcast by North Korean media for more than two months.
Therefore, when North Korea's top leader Kim Jong Un picked up a cigarette during a foreign affairs event, everyone, including the media, was surprised because North Korea's anti-smoking campaign was in full swing.
North Korean media said that there are no female smokers in North Korea, but men in North Korea particularly like to smoke. The reason is that North Korean men believe that smoking is a symbol of male charm, and for young people, smoking is also a way to pursue trendy coolness. If you enter North Korea, you will find that many North Korean men smoke in their hands, whether in the city or in the countryside. Cigarettes are an indispensable stress relief product for them.
Women in North Korea have expressed strong disgust at men's smoking. North Korea's Central Television once aired a promotional video titled "Unnecessary Threats in Life" aimed at promoting the spirit of smoking cessation in the media. In the film, North Korean women regard men who smoke incendiary cigarettes as people who endanger others 'health in public.
The World Health Organization has pointed out that in North Korea, measures such as fines will not be imposed when smoking is exposed in non-smoking areas such as health facilities, schools and mass transportation. As a result, there is a very strong relationship between North Korean men and cigarettes. It is precisely because of this atmosphere that although the North Korean authorities vigorously promote smoking bans, the effect is limited.
In line with reform and opening up, e-cigarettes will have a broad market in North Korea #p#paginated title #e#
Anyone who knows North Korea knows that the wages of North Korean people are not high. A China boss once hired North Korean workers in Dandong, and it was said that the daily salary was less than ten yuan. Although food, clothing, housing and transportation are distributed in many countries in North Korea, the country that North Korean men love most will not distribute cigarettes. Not only that, cigarette prices in North Korea are not cheap.
Miaoxiang Mountain is a famous brand cigarette in North Korea. The price exceeds 100 RMB. The wages of many ordinary people in North Korea are only enough to buy one Miaoxiang Mountain a month. For people with high wages, they can only buy two or three Miaoxiang Hills for a month's salary.
The price of e-cigarettes is relatively low. When you buy a cigarette stick, you only need to purchase a cigarette cartridge. The average price of a cigarette cartridge is twenty to thirty yuan, which is equivalent to one to two packs of cigarettes (depending on personal circumstances). Therefore, the introduction of e-cigarettes into North Korea can greatly reduce the expenses of North Korean smokers. At the same time, e-cigarettes are healthier than traditional cigarettes, which can also help the government reduce the pressure in this regard.
Dandong is China's largest import and export city for trade with North Korea, accounting for 75% of the country's trade with North Korea. Based on the Dandong Guomen Bay Mutual Market Trade Zone, it integrates Dandong's local characteristic products and famous commodity resources of direct sales stores at home and abroad, introduces Korean characteristic agricultural and sideline products, develops online and offline sales channels through the Guomen Cloud Shopping Comprehensive E-commerce Platform, and enjoys the support of special preferential policies from the government. Build the Guomen Bay Mutual Market Trade Zone into a one-place exchange market, full-network marketing, based in Dandong, and radiates domestic and even Northeast Asia mutual market trade platform. If North Korea develops its economy in an all-round way, North Korea's consumer demand will be released, and a large number of high-quality, low-cost labor will likely seek employment opportunities in Northeast China. This is not only a huge opportunity for China's manufacturing industry to target the North Korean consumer market, but also an important opportunity for the Guomen Bay China-North Korea Border Trade Zone to establish an export processing zone.
For North Korea, China, a neighboring country that ended its planned economy 40 years ago, is of great reference significance in reforming the economic system. The leap China has experienced may happen to North Korea in the foreseeable future. This requires North Korea to go global and introduce more local products to an economically globalized world, while at the same time introducing high-quality foreign products to enrich the domestic market and jointly benefit the people in terms of material and culture.
Can China's e-cigarettes become the first batch of products to participate in North Korea's economic revolution? Perhaps with Dandong as the entrance, there are still more possibilities waiting for this country to develop.
In 2018, CCTV News quoted KCNA News on April 21 that the third plenary meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers 'Party of Korea held on April 20 decided that starting from April 21, 2018, North Korea would suspend nuclear testing and intercontinental ballistic missile testing, and abandoned the northern nuclear test site.
At the same time, Kim Jong Un announced a new strategic line: North Korea will concentrate all its efforts on developing the economy, which triggered market expectations that North Korea will open up to the outside world and expectations for the economic development of northeastern China.
This is indeed the case. Economically, in recent years, North Korea has gradually implemented some reform measures and adjusted its domestic and external economic policies. For example, foreign exchange vouchers have been cancelled, the prices of grain and daily necessities have been greatly increased, economic and trade zones, tourist and sightseeing zones have been established, and the Korea National Development Bank and Dafong International Investment Group have been established to carry out large-scale investment promotion. At the same time, we began to develop Weihua Island and Huangjinping Island, which are adjacent to Dandong City, China. Therefore, our country's ties with North Korea have also become closer in recent years.
North Korea's procurement team has strong interest in China's e-cigarettes
Recently, the China-North Korea Cross-Border Trade Resources Docking and Exchange Conference jointly organized by Win-Win Holding Group and Dandong Guomen Bay Mutual Trade Zone came to a perfect conclusion at the Shenyang New World Expo Hall. The Deputy Minister of Commerce of North Korea led relevant representatives from the Ministry of Commerce of North Korea, the Association of International Exchange Associations, and the Korean Trading Society to attend the meeting. The meeting held on-site exchanges on hot issues such as China-North Korea trade, procurement, and product selection. The "big steam master" was invited to attend this meeting.
During the meeting, the North Korean procurement delegation visited the Dandong exhibition hall of Guomen Cloud Shopping Mall. Facing the dazzling array of daily necessities, electrical appliances, and small commodities in the exhibition hall, the North Korean delegation frequently stopped to watch and inquire, showing novel expressions from time to time. For North Korea, which has just reformed and opened up, many goods are unfamiliar, fresh, and full of curiosity to the Korean people. Especially for those new products made in China and launched on the market in recent years, the North Korean people have shown extreme interest and affection.
During the visit, the Vice Minister of Commerce of North Korea became very interested in e-cigarette products. He also picked up the bink e-cigarette products and asked the staff of Dazhengjia. The staff of Dazhengjia introduced the brand concept, functions and effects of bink e-cigarettes to the Vice Minister of Commerce of North Korea in detail, and explained to him the current situation and prospects of e-cigarettes in China. The other party agreed and gave high praise.
Bink takes the lead in seizing the North Korean market
The product that bink unveiled at the exchange meeting this time was the bink mini disposable steam wand, which is also a disposable cigarette. There are eight flavors and eight colors, and the shape is fashionable and beautiful, which has attracted the interest and praise of the North Korean purchasing group.
It is understood that in the first half of the year, Zhong Yunzhao, CEO of bink Ice Shell Technology, has been busy traveling to many overseas countries, focusing on in-depth market research. Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Dubai are all involved. He not only participated in the e-cigarette exhibition to learn about new products and new technologies, but also went deep into the local Chinese community to contact relevant cooperation matters. This time, ice shell technology responded to the national strategy and made bink ice shell products appear at the Dandong China-North Korea Cross-Border Trade Resources Matchmaking and Exchange Conference, taking the lead in seizing the North Korean market. It can be seen that bink ice shell wants to speed up its pace and use both methods in domestic and foreign markets. The deployment of bink ice shells in overseas markets is not achieved overnight. If you want to fulfill its brand mission and become a new choice for the world's 1 billion smokers to improve their health, in addition to firmly occupying a place in the domestic market, you are sure to go abroad.
In the early days of my country's reform and opening up
Forty years ago, China experienced the same era of reform and opening up. In more than 40 years, the GDP has increased more than 30 times. The people of China have witnessed a miracle of moving from a closed planned economic system to opening up and realizing the world's second largest economy. Nowadays, many of the commodities we take for granted come from overseas countries with mature market economies. These products have strong cultural attributes, so when they first entered China 40 years ago, their novel and fashionable characteristics quickly attracted many China consumers.# p#pagination title #e#
The first is the change in clothing. Changes in clothing are the foundation of people's spiritual outlook. In the 1980s, young women who were still wearing dacron shirts began to wear bright red skirts and shiny leather shoes. The boys studied McHarris wearing exaggerated gecko glasses in the American science fiction movie "People from the Atlantic", and their hearts seemed to have become the personable protagonist on the screen. In addition, bell-bottom pants and break dancing were popular standards in the city at that time.
On November 20, 1987, China's first KFC opened on Qianmen Street, Beijing. On that day, customers who go to eat (visit) need to wait at least two hours. On weekends, there are more than 400 meters of queues outside the restaurant, and police are even needed to maintain law and order. This sounds incredible. Compared with today's era when children can order food at any time on their mobile phones, Qianmen KFC 40 years ago was a veritable Internet celebrity restaurant, and Colonel Sanders at the door was the holy place to check in. This is the first invasion of foreign fast food into China, and it is also a commemoration of the official landing of Western food culture in the mainland of China.
Current situation of smokers in North Korea
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released in the "2015 World Report on Smoking Reality" that as of December 2014, the smoking rate among North Korean men was surveyed to be 43.9%, although it was 8.4 percentage points lower than the 52.3% in December 2012., but it ranks 10th among 18 Asian countries.
Therefore, North Korea has been actively carrying out anti-smoking activities over the years. North Korea enacted the Tobacco Control Law in 2005, which incorporated items such as prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors, prohibiting students from smoking, and establishing non-smoking areas into the law to encourage smoking bans. They even used North Korean women's shouts to promote anti-smoking, but with little effect.
In 2016, a number of new anti-smoking research and universal education bases were built in various provincial capitals across the country. North Korean government officials at all levels have taken the lead in banning smoking in public places. As of May 19, 2016, no North Korean government personnel have been seen smoking in photos and videos broadcast by North Korean media for more than two months.
Therefore, when North Korea's top leader Kim Jong Un picked up a cigarette during a foreign affairs event, everyone, including the media, was surprised because North Korea's anti-smoking campaign was in full swing.
North Korean media said that there are no female smokers in North Korea, but men in North Korea particularly like to smoke. The reason is that North Korean men believe that smoking is a symbol of male charm, and for young people, smoking is also a way to pursue trendy coolness. If you enter North Korea, you will find that many North Korean men smoke in their hands, whether in the city or in the countryside. Cigarettes are an indispensable stress relief product for them.
Women in North Korea have expressed strong disgust at men's smoking. North Korea's Central Television once aired a promotional video titled "Unnecessary Threats in Life" aimed at promoting the spirit of smoking cessation in the media. In the film, North Korean women regard men who smoke incendiary cigarettes as people who endanger others 'health in public.
The World Health Organization has pointed out that in North Korea, measures such as fines will not be imposed when smoking is exposed in non-smoking areas such as health facilities, schools and mass transportation. As a result, there is a very strong relationship between North Korean men and cigarettes. It is precisely because of this atmosphere that although the North Korean authorities vigorously promote smoking bans, the effect is limited.
In line with reform and opening up, e-cigarettes will have a broad market in North Korea #p#paginated title #e#
Anyone who knows North Korea knows that the wages of North Korean people are not high. A China boss once hired North Korean workers in Dandong, and it was said that the daily salary was less than ten yuan. Although food, clothing, housing and transportation are distributed in many countries in North Korea, the country that North Korean men love most will not distribute cigarettes. Not only that, cigarette prices in North Korea are not cheap.
Miaoxiang Mountain is a famous brand cigarette in North Korea. The price exceeds 100 RMB. The wages of many ordinary people in North Korea are only enough to buy one Miaoxiang Mountain a month. For people with high wages, they can only buy two or three Miaoxiang Hills for a month's salary.
The price of e-cigarettes is relatively low. When you buy a cigarette stick, you only need to purchase a cigarette cartridge. The average price of a cigarette cartridge is twenty to thirty yuan, which is equivalent to one to two packs of cigarettes (depending on personal circumstances). Therefore, the introduction of e-cigarettes into North Korea can greatly reduce the expenses of North Korean smokers. At the same time, e-cigarettes are healthier than traditional cigarettes, which can also help the government reduce the pressure in this regard.
Dandong is China's largest import and export city for trade with North Korea, accounting for 75% of the country's trade with North Korea. Based on the Dandong Guomen Bay Mutual Market Trade Zone, it integrates Dandong's local characteristic products and famous commodity resources of direct sales stores at home and abroad, introduces Korean characteristic agricultural and sideline products, develops online and offline sales channels through the Guomen Cloud Shopping Comprehensive E-commerce Platform, and enjoys the support of special preferential policies from the government. Build the Guomen Bay Mutual Market Trade Zone into a one-place exchange market, full-network marketing, based in Dandong, and radiates domestic and even Northeast Asia mutual market trade platform. If North Korea develops its economy in an all-round way, North Korea's consumer demand will be released, and a large number of high-quality, low-cost labor will likely seek employment opportunities in Northeast China. This is not only a huge opportunity for China's manufacturing industry to target the North Korean consumer market, but also an important opportunity for the Guomen Bay China-North Korea Border Trade Zone to establish an export processing zone.
For North Korea, China, a neighboring country that ended its planned economy 40 years ago, is of great reference significance in reforming the economic system. The leap China has experienced may happen to North Korea in the foreseeable future. This requires North Korea to go global and introduce more local products to an economically globalized world, while at the same time introducing high-quality foreign products to enrich the domestic market and jointly benefit the people in terms of material and culture.
Can China's e-cigarettes become the first batch of products to participate in North Korea's economic revolution? Perhaps with Dandong as the entrance, there are still more possibilities waiting for this country to develop.
