According to the latest data from the General Administration of Customs, the Ordos Comprehensive Bonded Zone recorded a total import and export value of 61.97 billion yuan ($8.96 billion) in 2025, marking a significant year-on-year increase of 32.8%. This accounted for 51.3% of the city's total foreign trade, underscoring its growing role as a primary engine of growth. Imports were particularly strong, soaring to 1.517 billion yuan ($219.4 million)—an extraordinary surge of 2,793.9% year-on-year. The zone was honored as one of the "Top Ten Parks for High-Quality Development of Export-Oriented Economy in 2025."
Throughout the year, the zone implemented the Three-Year Action Plan for Quality Improvement and Ranking Advancement of Ordos Comprehensive Bonded Zone (2025–2027). Supporting this initiative, municipal and banner-level authorities allocated 250 million yuan in special funds and established a dedicated working group led by senior local officials to oversee the zone's upgrading efforts. Key cadres were deployed to frontline positions to strengthen investment promotion and operational capabilities, creating an efficient and coordinated task-force system.
Infrastructure development was accelerated, with orderly progress on factory construction to meet enterprise production and storage needs. Six standardized factory and warehouse projects were completed, including facilities for electronics processing, new-energy power battery storage, and automobile and parts manufacturing, involving a total investment of 190 million yuan—laying a solid foundation for industrial clustering and upgrading.
To address logistics cost challenges, the zone innovatively launched a "Multi-Source Consolidation – Shipment from the Bonded Zone" model, enabling regular operation of the "Bonded + China-Europe Railway Express" service. Over the year, 23 trainloads of goods were handled through bonded storage and shipment, driving export value exceeding 400 million yuan—a 55-fold increase from the previous year—and establishing an efficient export corridor radiating to Central Asia and Russia.
In terms of industrial upgrading, the zone facilitated the city's first bonded processing project for precious metals, promoting the shift of processing trade toward higher value-added activities. This formed a complete trade cycle of "raw material import – domestic value addition – finished product export," achieving 1.8 billion yuan in processing trade import and export value, a 59-fold increase.
Meanwhile, the "bonded plus" model expanded into diversified fields. Cross-border e-commerce achieved integrated online-offline development with comprehensive sales surpassing 20 million yuan. "Bonded + Leasing" helped big-data enterprises reduce initial investment costs. The "Bonded + Sharing" model improved utilization efficiency of imported research equipment. "Bonded + Training" deepened industry-education integration, enabling the bonded sharing of high-end equipment and corporate resources while lowering societal learning costs.
On the service front, smart upgrades enabled efficient same-warehouse management of bonded and non-bonded goods, greatly improving customs clearance efficiency. A 24/7 service mechanism featuring "appointment-based clearance and dedicated personnel support" was established, ensuring smooth and efficient supply chain operations throughout the year and continuously optimizing the business environment.
Through persistent institutional innovation and functional expansion, the Ordos Comprehensive Bonded Zone has successfully transformed from a traditional logistics hub into a high-level open platform integrating trade services, industrial empowerment, and innovation incubation. It has injected strong momentum into the region's high-quality economic development and blazed a distinctive path for opening up in inland areas.
