With the breaking of various "barriers" in the coal trading process, the online "face-to-face" trading model between supply and demand sides has become popular, and the "coal traffickers" who have been active in Shanxi for many years are disappearing.
"You see, if we want to buy coal, we just need this' order '. After accepting the order, the purchase of 100000 tons of raw coal is considered successful!" On January 5th, Niu Wei, the owner of Lingshi Shengwang Coal Washing Plant, sat in his office and logged into the electronic trading platform of the China (Taiyuan) Coal Trading Center through his computer, completing a purchase task of 100000 tons of raw coal in his factory. Next, he only needs to transfer the payment to the supplier Shanxi Coking Coal Group through an online account, and this batch of coal can be quickly transported to his factory.
The reporter learned that in recent times, Shanxi Coal, which has always been portrayed as "heavy, thick, black, and coarse", is rapidly transforming towards the direction of "one click start", electronic trading, simple and efficient, and modern logistics, with the help of the new market environment. At the just concluded 2015 Taiyuan Coal Trade Fair, restructuring the industrial supply chain with Internet thinking and creating a standard e-commerce platform from online to offline has become the unanimous judgment of participants on the development of the coal industry. In short, it is to use e-commerce platforms to promote coal trading, reduce losses and markup in the circulation process, and achieve direct supply from coal producers to consumers without intermediate links. Experts believe that with the online "face-to-face transactions" between supply and demand sides, intermediary traders who have been active for many years will lose their operational space.
Buying coal, my heart is stuffed
As one of the many coal industry practitioners in Shanxi Province, Niuwei has been operating a coal washing plant for fifteen or sixteen years, with an annual production capacity of 800000 tons. In the past, his ways of buying coal were diverse, including establishing his own business relationships and referrals through acquaintances. However, the human factor was often unreliable, and the relationships he had worked hard to maintain were often lost due to reasons such as transfers or resignations. He had to look for them again. Coal traders, commonly known as "coal traders", are also essential to find. In the past, having a coal contract alone was not enough. It was necessary to obtain coal sales tickets, road coal sales permits, and other documents. These procedures were difficult for a small factory to handle, so it had to rely on "related" intermediaries to handle them. The expenses incurred in the middle have already been significantly higher than the contract price. To catch up with the booming coal market, he will have to pay a higher price to get everything done.
The centralized management of railway transportation capacity was also a major gap between the supply and demand sides of the coal market in the past. For a long time, the transportation capacity of coal railways has been continuously tight. Therefore, in order to ensure the key contracts of key coal enterprises, all railway transportation capacity in Shanxi Province is under centralized management. Enterprises need to apply to relevant departments in advance and obtain approval before loading coal onto the train. That is to say, it is not enough for the buyer to sign a contract with the coal company, and it is useless without a car. However, small enterprises and users are unable to compete with large enterprises and users in terms of transportation capacity applications. As a result, the term "sports car leather" has become a popular catchphrase in the coal industry in Shanxi for decades, and the process of "sports car leather" has also enriched a large group of middle predators known as "coal traders". In such a market environment, it is even more difficult to achieve face-to-face transactions between supply and demand, and to set prices in a realistic manner.
Buy coal and go online
The long-standing industry problem was quietly resolved by the end of 2014. In the second half of last year, under the premise of leveraging the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, the centralized management of national railway transportation capacity was first abolished. All enterprises can submit capacity applications to the 12306 railway freight platform on an equal basis, and the system allocates capacity through computers, breaking through the barrier of "freight cars" without breaking through. Subsequently, Shanxi Province issued a reform of the highway coal transportation and sales system, canceling nine major coal related bills, and at the same time, canceling the large and small checkpoints spanning the highway coal transportation channels, making "spending money to clear customs" a thing of the past. As a result, various obstacles to independent and rapid transactions between supply and demand sides have been cleared, making it possible to "solve it with one click".
Niuwei's way of buying coal has since changed. His proactive, urgent, and rapid consumption choice was to shift from being overwhelmed with worries and worries offline to being clearly visible online. As a third-party electronic trading platform for bulk commodities that Shanxi Province is striving to build, the China (Taiyuan) Coal Trading Center's electronic trading platform has welcomed several coal users like Niuwei. "Here, the five major coal enterprises in the province are selling coal in the form of hanging orders to the outside world. As long as you become a registered trader on the platform, you can respond to orders and complete transactions through the platform!" Niu Wei showed reporters the operation process of "online trading". ". Users can view relevant information such as coal type, calorific value, origin, and price for each order placed on the platform. If it meets expectations, click on "Order" and follow the instructions provided on the transaction interface to complete the transaction.
Changes in trading patterns in the coal market
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