the comprehensive pilot area of cross-border e-commerce will be further expanded. The executive meeting of the State Council recently made it clear that the next step is to add a number of pilot cities on the basis of the existing 35 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones and according to local wishes. The reporter learned that some cities began to prepare for declaration, and provinces with blank cross-border comprehensive test areas such as Shanxi, Xinjiang, Qinghai and Tibet should consider key support
since 2015, the state has approved the establishment of three batches of 35 comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zones, of which the first two batches of 13 pilot sites are mainly located in large and medium-sized cities in the East, and the third batch of 22 cross-border e-commerce pilot sites are inclined to the central and western regions and northeast regions. While the number of pilot sites is accelerating, the regional development is more balanced. It is worth noting that the first three pilot projects have formed a series of experience and practices in customs clearance and logistics facilitation, which have been popularized throughout the country, driving entrepreneurship and innovation and industrial upgrading
Zhang Zhouping, senior analyst of cross-border e-commerce of e-commerce research center, said that the comprehensive test zone has realized the innovation of system and mechanism, broken through departmental boundaries, and formed the information sharing platform and supervision coordination mechanism of commodities, logistics, merchants, e-commerce platform and port management department
Zhang Zhouping believes that the policy dividend of the comprehensive test area has also brought good development to enterprises and saved enterprise costs. At the same time, the pilot cities have improved the innovation vitality of the whole city, increased the capital of the government to attract investment, and also led to the improvement of the overall environment of China's cross-border trade. According to the latest assessment of the world bank, China's state-owned business environment ranked 46th and cross-border trade ranked 65th, both 32 places higher than the previous year
Taking Hangzhou as an example, as one of the first five pilot cities in China and the first approved "cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone" in China, there were only 3500 cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Hangzhou at the beginning of its establishment in 2015, reaching 12000 after more than four years of development
the industry believes that based on the results of the early pilot, the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone is accelerating the promotion to cities with mature conditions and urgent needs in the country
for the selection of a new batch of pilot cities, Li Mingtao, President of the Research Institute of China international e-commerce center, told the reporter of Economic Information Daily that it should consider supporting provinces with blank cross-border comprehensive test zones such as Shanxi, Xinjiang, Qinghai and Tibet. On the whole, we still hope to vigorously develop cross-border e-commerce exports and create a new channel for import and export trade by supporting the development of cross-border e-commerce under the background of complex and changeable international economic and trade forms, while meeting the upgrading needs of domestic consumption