Cross-border e-commerce ＂accelerated running＂ opens up a new channel for enterprises to go to sea

　　Home appliances and digital products made in China swept the Korean market; China’s cross-border e-commerce platform has further emerged in Europe and America; Yiwu Christmas products, warm products and other commodities have exploded … … In the just-concluded "Black Friday" shopping week, a Chinese style once again blew up in overseas markets.

　In land port, Ganzhou, Nankang District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, cross-border e-commerce sellers are broadcasting live. People’s Daily Online Zhu Haipeng photo

　　Strong policies and emboldened enterprises make cross-border e-commerce a new force to promote the growth of China’s foreign trade and accelerate enterprises’ going out to sea.

　　Customs data show that in the first three quarters of this year, China’s cross-border e-commerce import and export was 1.7 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.4%; Among them, exports reached 1.3 trillion yuan, up by 17.7%.

　　"Fast" is a distinctive feature of cross-border e-commerce development in China. According to data from the Ministry of Commerce, the scale of cross-border e-commerce in China has increased nearly 10 times in the past five years. National policy support, speeding up logistics customs clearance and accelerating the layout of e-commerce platforms have promoted the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce and become a new bright spot in foreign trade growth.

　　The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce in China is inseparable from policy support. Since the word "cross-border electronic commerce" first appeared in the government work report in 2014, cross-border e-commerce has been written into the government work report for 10 consecutive years. From the central government to the local government, a series of support policies have been introduced, which have continuously injected momentum into the development of cross-border e-commerce.

　　Since the beginning of this year, Shanghai has put forward 18 key tasks such as implementing the action plan of "going to the sea for excellent products" and improving the public service level of cross-border e-commerce; Shandong proposed to strive to build 20 cross-border e-commerce characteristic industrial belts by 2025; Jiangsu proposes that by 2025, more than 120 cross-border e-commerce industrial parks will be built, and more than 600 cross-border e-commerce enterprises with leading industries and strong international competitiveness will be cultivated … …

　　Zhu Keli, the founding dean of the National Research Institute for New Economics, said: "By supporting the development of cross-border e-commerce, all localities have tapped the potential of economic growth, which has provided important support for promoting the stable scale of foreign trade, promoting innovation and increasing kinetic energy."

　　Speeding up logistics customs clearance and continuous improvement of supporting services are major foundations for promoting the release of the advantages and potential of cross-border e-commerce in China.

　　At 8 pm on November 4, the world’s first live broadcast of cross-border logistics came to an end. A commodity sent from China can be delivered to consumers thousands of miles away in just five days. From the original 60-day delivery to the 10-day delivery, and now to the 5-day delivery, the timeliness of cross-border e-commerce logistics has continuously refreshed the "fastest" record.

　　Online shopping bonded import, direct purchase import, special area export and cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse … … In recent years, the relevant departments have introduced nearly 200 innovative measures, accelerated the comprehensive reform of the comprehensive bonded zone, and constantly promoted the all-round acceleration of cross-border e-commerce in China. Up to now, China has signed memorandums of bilateral e-commerce cooperation with 29 countries, with more than 1,500 overseas warehouses of cross-border e-commerce with a total area of over 19 million square meters.

　　According to the World Bank’s logistics performance data, China’s logistics performance index ranked 19th in the world in 2022; International shipping ranks 14th. Specific to the customs clearance time, in 2022, the overall customs clearance time for imported and exported goods nationwide was 32.02 hours and 1.03 hours respectively, which was 67.1% and 91.6% shorter than that in 2017; It is about 16 hours faster than the 48-hour customs clearance time stipulated by CPTPP.

　　The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce platforms is helping enterprises accelerate the overseas market of "Nuggets".

　　The reporter learned that since the beginning of this year, Ali, Pinduoduo, JD.COM, ByteDance and other e-commerce platforms have continuously increased their cross-border e-commerce business. Ali launched the foreign trade AI product "business assistant", Pinduoduo’s Temu launched the "full custody" model, and Jingdong Logistics accelerated its layout in the international supply chain field … … These diversified cross-border businesses have continuously opened up new space for the development of cross-border e-commerce, and at the same time, they have become a "new channel" for many small and medium-sized enterprises to accelerate their going out to sea.

　　"We export more than 400,000 parcels every day, and the average daily cargo weighs about 600 tons." The person in charge of Pinduoduo’s overseas cross-border platform Duoduo Cross-border told reporters that by the end of the third quarter, Duoduo Cross-border had penetrated into more than 100 manufacturing industrial belts in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shandong, Anhui and other places, and promoted high-quality manufacturing products to more than 40 countries and regions in North America, Australia, Europe, Asia and other places, helping more than 10,000 China factories successfully go to sea.

　　Cross-border e-commerce has greatly lowered the threshold of international trade specialization, making a large number of small and micro-subjects become operators of new trade. According to the data of the Ministry of Commerce, at present, the number of cross-border e-commerce entities in China has exceeded 100,000, and the number of independent stations has exceeded 200,000. The proportion of import and export of cross-border e-commerce goods in foreign trade has increased from less than 1% five years ago to about 5% at present.

　　Li Mingtao, chief e-commerce expert of China International E-commerce Center of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the cross-border e-commerce platform has provided a brand-new commercial infrastructure for enterprises going to sea. "The global channel we have built strongly supports the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce in marketing, logistics and other services."