Twenty Years of Foreign Trade: Containers Carry the Years

From 2006 to 2026, I have been engaged in foreign trade for twenty years. From a young graduate who couldn't even tell the difference between FOB and CIF, to a veteran who has been deeply involved in the industry and founded his own company, I have stepped into the pitfalls of fraudulent orders, grabbed the dividends of OEM, and witnessed the iteration of China's foreign trade from offline exhibitions to cross-border digitalization. I once stayed up all night to get my first order of 3,000 US dollars, and I also suffered heavy losses due to lost contact with customers; from pleasing customers to equality and win-win, from working alone to leading a team to inherit. After twenty years, I finally understand: foreign trade is never about selling goods to earn a price difference, it is about exchange of character for trust, it is about perseverance in traveling to distant places, it is containers that carry the years, and they also carry the struggles and glory of ordinary people.