This year’s durian season, Ms Tan, a durian lover, achieved “durian freedom” by buying durians for herself for two weeks in a row. The two durians she bought weigh between 2 and 2.5 kilograms and cost around 100 yuan each. Ms Tan also noticed that on online shopping platforms, durians were priced at less than 26 yuan per kilogram at their cheapest. Ms Tan’s experience is no accident. According to the “Durian Consumption Observation” report jointly released by Jingdong Consumption and Industrial Development Research Institute and Jingdong Supermarket, the average unit price of durian has dropped by 15% in the past five years. In 2023, China imported 1.426 million tons of fresh durian, an increase of more than 70%, of which 929,000 tons came from Thailand, which has always been favored in China.
How is the price of durian in Thailand being “knocked down”?
Back to December 2022, the China-Laos Railway has been open for operation for a year, and with the use of the designated supervision site for imported fruits at the Mohan Railway port in Yunnan, the China-Laos Railway officially has the full railway transport capacity for imported fruits. Fresh durians from Thailand have been transported by cold chain special trains, and more and more tropical fruits from Southeast Asia have arrived in Kunming by international cargo trains of China-Laos Railway on the Lancang-Mekong Express Line.
“It is more convenient for Thai durians to export to China. Chinese consumers enjoy better quality durians, Thai enterprises and farmers share market opportunities, and people’s lives along the route continue to improve.” Thailand time Bida International logistics Co., LTD. Operations director Pan Jiao Ling said.
With the deepening cooperation between China and Thailand, in the future, more good goods from China and Thailand will enter the families of the people of the two countries by taking the express line, bringing the sweetness to the dinner tables of the two countries and enriching the “tip of the tongue” of the two people.
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