"Once hesitated, now it's the right way to go!" The head of a foreign trade enterprise in Jiangsu sighed that the average growth rate of enterprise profits and exports in the past two years reached 175% and 282% respectively. The way he said is to continuously increase innovation and promote transformation and upgrading. The reporter of Economic Reference Daily found in the interview that in the past year, many foreign trade enterprises overcame many difficulties, continued to increase their efforts in digital transformation, achieved breakthroughs in product innovation, production process transformation and market development, and became an important driving force for the stability and quality improvement of foreign trade. In 2023, these enterprises said that they would continue to work hard on innovation and strive for a broader world in the international market. ——Optimizing the production process, digitalizing, helping to reduce costs and increase efficiency, intelligent vertical automatic logistics equipment, automatic core lamination unit, and full-automatic sizing silicon steel packaging line... In the intelligent dust-free workshop of Wuxi Putian Iron Core Co., Ltd., only the operator clicks the computer screen, and the silicon steel sheets that are as thin as hair are cut and shaped. After a series of processes, they become the core of an important part of the transformer. From the time of bottleneck and benefit decline to the year of 2022, it won the title of national specialized and new "little giant". In the opinion of Liang Linqiu, vice chairman of Putian Iron Core, actively embracing digitalization is the key move. "We have concentrated on the transformation for three years since 2015, and now we are still continuing to adjust and optimize, with a total investment of about 300 million yuan. Once hesitated, now it is the right way to go!" Liang Linqiu told reporters that the company's products are exported to South America, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions. Now the company's process quality has improved by about 70%, the order delivery rate has increased by 50%, the output value in 2022 will reach 1.6 billion yuan, and the per capita output value will be 10 times higher than the transformation premise, The consumption of materials and energy for the production of unit quantity of iron cores has decreased significantly. In the past two years, the average growth rates of corporate profits and exports reached 175% and 282% respectively. Speaking of plans for the new year, Liang Linqiu said that in 2023, the company will actively go to the United Arab Emirates, Germany and other places to participate in power, new energy and transformer related exhibitions, and continue to enhance its international influence. At the same time, we will continue to optimize equipment and build a cutting-edge laboratory and intelligent production base for energy-efficient power transmission and distribution equipment. "It is believed that with the implementation of more support policies, the company's business will develop more smoothly." Such a situation is not uncommon. As a foreign trade enterprise in the field of home textiles, Wuxi Vance Group has seen steady growth in its foreign trade exports in recent years. In 2022, its foreign trade exports will exceed 180 million dollars. Yan Hongjiao, the general manager, said that the company has been promoting the digital transformation for a long time, and has actively invested more than 100 million yuan to build five intelligent production workshops, and is ready to start another intelligent curtain production workshop to build a household textile digital factory in all categories. "In 2023, we will work hard!" - During the epidemic of laying out a new business model and creating a new growth point for foreign trade, the supply chain is not smooth, which has become a pain point and a blockage in international trade. Known as the "capital of small commodities in the world", Yiwu actively explores, strengthens the layout of cross-border e-commerce and other new forms of business, establishes a supply chain system that adapts to the new changes in the current global trade mode, and becomes Yiwu's foreign trade hub