cross border e-commerce has become an important driver for the transformation of new and old drivers of foreign trade and the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. At present, traditional foreign trade has been greatly impacted by the epidemic. Relying on the unique advantages of new trade formats such as cross-border e-commerce to help foreign trade overcome difficulties, more expectations are placed on it. On April 7, the executive meeting of the State Council decided to stabilize the basic market of foreign trade by adding 46 comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zones and other measures. This means that the number of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas will increase to 105, forming a development pattern of land and domestic linkage and east-west mutual assistance
a new engine for high-quality trade development
"Cross border e-commerce is the most rapidly developing trade mode in the Internet era. It can break through time and space constraints, reduce intermediate links, solve the problem of information asymmetry between supply and demand, and provide new development opportunities for more countries, more enterprises and more groups." Ren Hongbin, Assistant Minister of Commerce, said at the press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council on April 10 that since 2015, the State Council has established 59 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zones in four batches, and issued a series of policies and measures in terms of Taxation, supervision and facilitation to continuously optimize the market environment for the development of cross-border e-commerce
over the past five years, the Ministry of Commerce, together with various departments and localities, has explored and established a policy system with "six systems and two platforms" as the core, copied and promoted 36 mature experiences and innovative practices in 12 aspects across the country, and cross-border e-commerce has gradually become a new bright spot in the development of China's foreign trade. According to the data, in 2019, China's cross-border e-commerce retail import and export volume reached 186.21 billion yuan, five times that of 2015, with an average annual growth rate of 49.5%. The role of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zone in foreign trade development has become increasingly prominent
Ren Hongbin pointed out that cross-border e-commerce has developed into a new engine for the high-quality development of China's trade. Private enterprises have become the main force of export, accounting for 89.9%, and the construction of online brands has been actively promoted. There are more than 3000 enterprise brands in the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zone; cross-border e-commerce has developed into a new platform for innovation and entrepreneurship, and each comprehensive test zone has created" mass entrepreneurship and innovation"through incubation platforms and bases such as maker towns and maker spaces Atmosphere; Cross border e-commerce has developed into a new channel for opening to the outside world. Enterprises in the comprehensive test area have built more than 1200 overseas warehouses, covering the world
policy overweight to deal with the impact and promote development
the new cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area is an important measure for the country to continuously promote the construction and development of cross-border e-commerce from the top-level design. The development of cross-border e-commerce conforms to the tide of economic globalization and will inevitably be impacted by the rupture of global supply chain. At present, the trend of the global epidemic is still uncertain, and the uncertain factors faced by foreign trade enterprises are increasing. "Increasing support for new formats and models such as cross-border e-commerce will help alleviate the impact of the epidemic on foreign trade, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade, increase employment and entrepreneurship opportunities, and promote consumption replenishment and potential release." Pan He Lin, executive dean of the Digital Economy Research Institute of Central South University of economics and law, said
among the first four batches of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas, the first two batches of 13 pilot areas are mainly located in large and medium-sized cities in the East, and the establishment of the third batch of 22 comprehensive test areas and the fourth batch of 24 comprehensive test areas began to tilt towards the central and western regions and the northeast. Zhang Zhouping, director and senior analyst of B2B and cross-border e-commerce Department of ecosoc.com e-commerce research center, said that from the approval of the fourth batch of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas to the addition of the fifth batch, there was only an interval of more than three months, which shows that the state attaches importance to the development of cross-border e-commerce. The continuous increase of policies will not only drive the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce, but also enhance the innovation vitality of pilot cities as a whole and effectively stimulate local economic development
in order to further promote the development of cross-border e-commerce, Ren Hongbin said that the Ministry of Commerce will work with relevant departments from five aspects: first, promote the online access of traditional enterprises and continue to guide the comprehensive test zone to build cross-border e-commerce offline parks to realize industrial agglomeration, main clusters and function integration. Second, give full play to the role of international platforms and continue to support all kinds of foreign trade enterprises and production enterprises to cooperate with international e-commerce platforms to achieve common development. Third, support the "going out" of cross-border e-commerce platforms, guide the comprehensive test area to improve public services, and cultivate and develop independent cross-border e-commerce platforms. Fourth, promote the construction of overseas warehouses with high quality, and support and encourage enterprises to improve the supporting services of overseas warehouses. Fifth, improve the cross-border e-commerce industry chain and ecosystem, continue to guide the comprehensive test area to gather manufacturing and production, e-commerce platform, warehousing and logistics, financial risk control and other enterprises, develop logistics, payment, express and other service industries, and drive the local surrounding and upstream and downstream enterprises of the industry chain to go online