Cross-Border E-Commerce Accelerates And Opens Up New Channels For Enterprises To Go Global

"Fast" is a distinctive feature of China's cross-border e-commerce development. According to data from the Ministry of Commerce, the scale of my country's cross-border e-commerce has increased nearly 10 times in the past five years. National policy support, accelerated logistics and customs clearance, and accelerated deployment of e-commerce platforms have promoted the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce and become a new highlight of foreign trade growth.
The rapid development of China's cross-border e-commerce is inseparable from policy support. Since the term "cross-border e-commerce" first appeared in the government work report in 2014, cross-border e-commerce has been included in the government work report for 10 consecutive years. From the central to local governments, a series of supporting policies have been introduced to continuously inject momentum into the development of cross-border e-commerce.
Since the beginning of this year, Shanghai has proposed 18 key tasks such as implementing the "Exporting High-Quality Products Overseas" action plan and improving the level of cross-border e-commerce public services; Shandong has proposed to strive to create 20 cross-border e-commerce characteristic industry belts by 2025; Jiangsu It is proposed that by 2025, more than 120 cross-border e-commerce industrial parks will be built and more than 600 cross-border e-commerce companies that are industry-leading and internationally competitive will be cultivated...
Zhu Keli, founding president of the Guoyan New Economic Research Institute, said: "By supporting the development of cross-border e-commerce, various regions tap their economic growth potential, which provides important support for stabilizing the scale of foreign trade, promoting innovation, and increasing momentum."
The acceleration of logistics customs clearance and the continuous improvement of supporting services are an important foundation for promoting the release of the advantages and potential of my country's cross-border e-commerce.
At 8 pm on November 4, the world's first cross-border logistics live broadcast came to an end. A product shipped from China can be delivered to consumers thousands of miles away in just five days. From the original 60-day delivery to 10-day delivery, and now to 5-day delivery, cross-border e-commerce logistics timeliness continues to set the "fastest" record.
"Online shopping bonded import", "direct purchase import", "special area export", "cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse"... In recent years, relevant departments have introduced nearly 200 innovative measures of various types, accelerating the comprehensive reform of the comprehensive bonded zone, and continuously Promote the all-round acceleration of my country's cross-border e-commerce. Up to now, my country has signed bilateral e-commerce cooperation memorandums with 29 countries, and has more than 1,500 cross-border e-commerce overseas warehouses with a total area of ​​more than 19 million square meters.
The World Bank's logistics performance data shows that China's logistics performance index ranks 19th globally in 2022; international shipping ranks 14th. Specific to customs clearance time, in 2022, the overall customs clearance time for national import and export goods will be 32.02 hours and 1.03 hours respectively, which are 67.1% and 91.6% shorter than 2017; 48% shorter than the 48% specified in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The customs clearance time is approximately 16 hours.
The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce platforms is helping companies accelerate their efforts to tap overseas markets.
The reporter learned that since this year, e-commerce platforms such as Alibaba, Pinduoduo, JD.com, and ByteDance have continued to increase their cross-border e-commerce business. Alibaba launched the foreign trade AI product "Business Assistant", Pinduoduo's Temu launched a "fully managed" model, JD Logistics accelerated its layout in the international supply chain field... These diversified cross-border businesses continue to open up new opportunities for the development of cross-border e-commerce. space, and it has also become a "new channel" for many small and medium-sized enterprises to accelerate their overseas expansion.
"We export more than 400,000 packages every day, and the average daily cargo weight is about 600 tons." The person in charge of Duoduo Cross-border, Pinduoduo's overseas cross-border platform, told reporters that as of the end of the third quarter, Duoduo Cross-border has penetrated into Guangdong and Zhejiang More than a hundred manufacturing industry belts in China, Shandong, Anhui and other places have promoted high-quality manufacturing products to enter more than 40 countries and regions in North America, Australia, Europe, Asia and other places, helping more than 10,000 Chinese factories to successfully go overseas.
Cross-border e-commerce has significantly lowered the threshold for international trade specialization, enabling a large number of small and micro entities to become operators of new trade. Data from the Ministry of Commerce show that at present, there are more than 100,000 cross-border e-commerce entities in my country, and more than 200,000 independent stations have been built. The import and export scale of cross-border e-commerce goods has increased from less than 1% of foreign trade five years ago to the current About 5%.
Li Mingtao, chief e-commerce expert at the China International E-Commerce Center of the Ministry of Commerce, said that cross-border e-commerce platforms provide brand-new commercial infrastructure for overseas companies. "The global channels we have built strongly support cross-border services in terms of marketing, logistics and other services. the rapid development of overseas e-commerce."