On July 18th, 2026 Linyi-Nigeria Online Selection Fair and 1688nigeria One-stop Forum were successfully held in Linyi. The event was jointly sponsored by Linyi Import and Export Trade Association, Linyi cross-border electronic commerce Association, Orange Cloud Offshore Ecological Service Platform and 1688nigeria Platform, undertaken by Suzhou Jiatang Culture Communication Co., Ltd. and Hangzhou Orange Cloud Offshore Technology Co., Ltd., and assisted by Linyi Tax Butler Foreign Trade Integrated Service Co., Ltd.
Based on the advantages of Linyi's industrial chain and commercial resources, the activity focused on the largest market in West Africa, Nigeria, and created an "offline+online" integrated docking event for Linyi factory through various forms such as policy interpretation, industry sharing, resource docking and strategic cooperation, which attracted more than 100 manufacturing enterprises from various industries in Linyi to participate in the event, and the site achieved fruitful results.
At the beginning of the meeting, we watched a video of congratulations from Evarist Upa, special consultant of market trade in Anambra, Nigeria, to the local conference. In the video, Evarist invited China enterprises to visit Nigeria, hoping that more high-quality enterprises from China would take root in Nigeria and more local products from Nigeria would be exported to China.
Gou Chengfu, former member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the Research Office of the Shandong Provincial People's Government; external MPA supervisor at the Party School of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (Shandong Institute of Administration); external master's supervisor for Regional Economics at Shandong University of Finance and Economics; and chief expert and professor at the Cultural Industry Research Institute (Rural Revitalization Research Institute) of Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), attended the event and delivered the opening speech.From the strategic perspective of high-quality development in provincial foreign trade, he emphasized that emerging markets along the Belt and Road, such as Nigeria, represent the core growth drivers for stabilizing and expanding Shandong's foreign trade. He fully recognized the practical value of the 1688nigeria platform in empowering small and medium-sized enterprises to engage in credible and collaborative international expansion. He encouraged Linyi-based enterprises to seize the growth opportunities in the West African market and establish a new benchmark for Shandong businesses' global presence through superior quality and compliant operations.
Hanli, International Trade Service Section of Linyi Mall Management Committee, deeply interpreted the "Linyi Mall Going to Sea Policy" on the spot, systematically sorted out the current support measures and reporting paths for Linyi Mall to support cross-border expansion of enterprises, and made clear the policy dividend direction and compliance guidelines for local enterprises. It boosted confidence for enterprises to "go out and bring in".
Fu Haibin, deputy general manager of Linyi Mall Group and president of Linyi Import and Export Trade Association, explained the overall planning of the global development of Linyi Mall with the theme of "Strategic Deployment of the Mall to the Sea in Nigeria", pointed out the high adaptability of the Nigerian market to Linyi's advantageous industries such as hardware, building materials and light industry department stores, and proposed the localization platform as the starting point to promote the landing path for mall merchants to form a group to explore the West African market.
Lin Tianyi, Secretary-General of Linyi cross-border electronic commerce Association, shared the book "Strategic Significance of Linyi Manufacturing Brand Going to Sea", pointing out that Linyi manufacturing is at the key node of upgrading from "product export" to "brand export". The vertical localized B2B platform is the core springboard for manufacturing enterprises to land in overseas markets with light weight and low cost, and the best way for industrial belts to achieve high-quality going to sea.
尼日利亚籍行业专家1688nigeria平台国际事业部总监 Greg（Li Ming）以《我来自非洲：快速崛起的新大陆》为主题，从本土视角拆解了尼日利亚的消费生态、商业规则与采购偏好，为在场企业呈现了真实鲜活的西非市场图景，破除了企业对非洲市场的信息差与认知误区。
The captain, the founder of the Orange Cloud Sea Ecological Service Platform and the founder of the 1688nigeria Platform, brought the "New Nigerian Foreign Trade Model 4.0 Localization B2B+1688nigeria New Opportunities" to share. He said that the traditional foreign trade model has pain points such as high customer acquisition cost, inaccurate traffic and no guaranteed effect. 1688nigeria relies on the three core capabilities of private domain traffic barrier, local social media matrix acquisition and intelligent algorithm matching to create a "guaranteed inquiry+full link service" deterministic sea-going scheme, which directly hits the pain points of the whole process of 0-1 factory going to Nigeria, so that small and medium-sized enterprises can develop at low cost without self-built teams and high investment. 1688niegria platform is dedicated to becoming a one-stop service platform for China factories to go to sea in Nigeria, and it is also the source factory procurement platform for Nigerian wholesalers.
In the heavy link of this forum, the 1688nigeria platform signed strategic cooperation agreements with Sudafei and Shandong Tax Manager Finance Group respectively, and the activities were strongly supported by Chouzhou Bank, marking the formal formation of the closed loop of the platform's full-link sea service of "customer acquisition+logistics+finance+taxation".
Among them, the strategic cooperation with Sudafei will focus on cross-border logistics between China and Africa and local customs clearance and distribution in Nigeria. Relying on Sudafei's local network and customs clearance advantages for ten years, it will provide cooperative factories with door-to-door logistics solutions with stable timeliness and traceability throughout the process, and solve the industry pain points of difficult customs clearance, many lost parts and uncontrollable timeliness in the African market.
The strategic cooperation with tax stewards will focus on foreign trade export tax rebate, fiscal and tax compliance and risk avoidance. The professional team of tax stewards will provide the whole process of fiscal and tax services for offshore enterprises, help enterprises reduce costs in compliance, fully enjoy tax rebate dividends, and avoid fiscal and tax business risks from the source.
Chouzhou Bank provides exclusive financial support such as cross-border collection and account opening for this activity and cooperative enterprises, and opens up a safe and compliant capital link to solve the worries of enterprises' slow return to sea and high capital risk.
In the afternoon event, Sun Meilian, the founder of Shandong Tax Manager Finance Group and the consultant of import and export tax rebate invited by Linyi Cross-border E-commerce Association, shared the topic of "Interpretation of Export Tax Refund Policy and Risk Avoidance for Enterprises in 2026", and explained the core points, declaration process and risk prevention and control methods of export tax rebate for enterprises in combination with the latest policy requirements and practical cases.
Liu Jiang, general manager of Sudafei Yiwu Branch, gave a detailed introduction to the logistics product system, local customs clearance capacity and the whole distribution network of China-Africa special line with the title of "Sudafei Africa One-stop Door-to-Door Solution", which provided enterprises with a reference for logistics selection suitable for the Nigerian market.
Subsequently, in the roadshow selection and on-site Q&A session of the participating enterprises, a number of Linyi advantageous industrial belt enterprises took the stage to show their core products and production capacity, and accurately meet Nigeria's procurement needs; The guest team answered the questions raised by the company on market expansion, platform entry and compliance management one by one, and the atmosphere of on-site docking and exchange was warm. On the evening of the event, a dinner exchange session was also set up for the participants to communicate with business representatives in depth and deepen their cooperation intentions.
Based on the core advantages of Linyi industrial belt, this forum accurately anchored the blue ocean market in Nigeria, and built a low-cost, low-risk and fully closed-loop access to the sea in West Africa for Linyi factory through multi-party linkage between government and enterprises and deep integration of ecological resources. In the future, the 1688nigeria platform will continue to deepen its local operation capability, and link high-quality ecological partners such as logistics, finance, taxation, etc. to help more Linyi manufacturing go abroad and dig for West Africa, and push Linyi Mall to a higher-quality development stage. "If you go to sea in Nigeria, you will find 1688nigeria". In the future, you will expect 1688nigeria to lead 10,000 factories to sea in Nigeria.