China's annual foreign trade value topped 40 trillion yuan (about $5.94 trillion) for the first time in 2022, and the country maintained the world's largest trading nation in goods for six consecutive years.

As the new year has arrived, foreign trade enterprises are going all out to embrace the overseas market.

Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2023 shows a busy scene at a container terminal in Haikou, south China's Hainan province. (People's Daily Online/Yang He)

At the Zhoushan port in Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang province, containers were unloaded from two 200,000-ton vessels by 45 bridge cranes and 122 gantry cranes.

Such a busy scene at the port was a result of the diligent work of foreign trade enterprises, including Bianfeng Machinery Group based in Jiashan county, Zhejiang province.

"Our new orders have been scheduled to March and April. It's a bumper year for foreign trade companies," said Wang Shengshuang, chairman of board of the company.

According to Wang, the company plans to join over 10 international exhibitions this year and will invite its foreign clients to have investigation tours to the company.

"Meeting clients is meeting opportunities," the man said.

This year, multiple provinces, including Jiangsu, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Sichuan, have sent business delegations overseas and invited foreign merchants to China. They have also launched a series of measures to better facilitate the trade sector, which enhanced foreign trade enterprises' confidence in expanding market.

"Before the Chinese New Year, we had already stocked up our overseas warehouses, so that commodities could be immediately shipped to foreign consumers," said Zeng Qiuping, who runs an appliance company in Shunde district, Foshan, south China's Guangdong province.