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On the morning of December 4, the 5th Global Cross-border E-commerce Conference opened in Jinyi City New District. The conference was co-hosted by China International Electronic Commerce Center, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce and Jinhua Municipal People’s Government, and jointly organized by the Administrative Committee of Jinyi City New Area, Jinhua Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Jinhua Customs and Jindong District People’s Government. Zhang Zhigang, former Vice Minister of Commerce and President of the China Chamber of Commerce, Sheng Qiuping, Director of the Provincial Department of Commerce, Buckley Aliyu Usima, Ambassador of the Nigerian Embassy in China, Yao Guanghai, Secretary of the Party Committee of China International Electronic Commerce Center, Maharey, Economic Consul of the Consulate General of the Republic of South Africa in Shanghai, and relevant leaders of Jinhua City attended the meeting.
With the theme of “Cross-border E-commerce Inclusive Worldwide”, the conference focused on the hot issues of global cross-border e-commerce development, and discussed and shared the valuable experience of the government, academia and business circles in accelerating the cultivation of new formats and models of foreign trade and enhancing the new momentum and advantages of foreign trade under the digital economy transformation strategy from multiple perspectives, industrial transformation, platform development, and standardized governance, and more than 500 representatives of domestic government departments and enterprises attended the conference.
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Sheng Qiuping delivered a speech at the conference. He pointed out that with the continuous popularization of information technology such as big data, cloud computing, and mobile Internet, e-commerce has developed in a larger scope, wider fields and higher levels in the world, and has shown great advantages in reducing trade links, reducing trade costs, improving resource allocation efficiency, and promoting global trade facilitation, with strong vitality and broad development prospects, providing a rare opportunity for China to promote the high-quality development of trade.
He said that the provincial party committee and government fully focused on high-quality modern competitiveness, vigorously promoted the implementation of the “No. 1 Project” of the digital economy, and made it clear that it is necessary to build a new trade center marked by digital trade one step ahead of others, accelerate the construction of a new highland of comprehensive opening up, and achieve remarkable results: in the first half of this year, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy in the province reached 269.6 billion yuan, an increase of 14.8% year-on-year, and the added value of the core industries of the digital economy accounted for 9.5% of GDP, an increase of 0.4 percentage points over the same period last year. From January to October, the province achieved online retail sales of 1.45631 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%. The role of new foreign trade formats represented by market procurement, cross-border e-commerce and foreign comprehensive services in the steady growth of foreign trade and the improvement of quality and efficiency has been increasing, and the proportion of new format exports in the province from January to October reached 17.5%, driving the province’s exports to increase by 3.3 percentage points.
He hoped that taking the opportunity of implementing the Guiding Opinions of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on Promoting the High-quality Development of Trade, and in accordance with the work requirements of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, we will actively strive for innovative trade demonstration zones, rely on the advantages of Jinhua City’s large foreign trade market and e-commerce strong city, support and be willing to jointly promote and build a pilot zone for new trade linkage development, a pilot zone for the innovation of new trade systems and mechanisms, and a model area for the cooperation and development of “Silk Road E-commerce” with Jinhua City.
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The conference released the “China Cross-border E-commerce Development Report (2018-2019)”, which systematically analyzes the current situation and characteristics of China’s cross-border e-commerce development, rationally predicts the future development trend, and provides direction guidance for the development of cross-border e-commerce.
At the same time, the conference set up the 2019 cross-border e-commerce exhibition for the first time. The exhibition area is about 5,000 square meters, covering cross-border comprehensive bonded zone, cross-border well-known enterprise exhibition, cross-border import and export exhibition, cross-border service, cross-border digital marketing, cross-border talent training and other fields. At the exhibition site, more than 2,000 kinds of goods from the United States, Australia, Spain and other countries and regions were gathered.
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(Contributed by Electronic Commerce Division)