Since the beginning of this year, our city has been based on the Yangtze River Delta, firmly grasped the major opportunities of trade digital transformation, focused on the “123” target task, vigorously promoted new models such as “cross-border e-commerce + market procurement”, and tried first to stabilize the fundamentals of foreign trade. From January to November, the city’s foreign trade exports increased by 24.5%, ranking first in the province, and 6 cross-border online retail exports.300 million yuan, exceeding the target tasks issued by the province, a year-on-year increase of 89.4%, ranking first in the province for two consecutive months, and the cross-border e-commerce transaction volume increased by 93% year-on-year.9%, driving the growth of foreign trade imports and exports7.7 percentage points, and the contribution rate of cross-border e-commerce to foreign trade imports and exports increased by 5 compared with the end of 2019.04 percentage points, cross-border e-commerce is developing rapidly. The main practices are as follows:
The first is to focus on top-level design and realize the promotion of special classes. The Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attach great importance to the development of cross-border e-commerce, and Secretary Ma and Mayor Wang respectively gave instructions on cross-border e-commerce, requiring it to be used as an important starting point to maintain the steady growth of foreign trade and promote industrial transformation and upgrading, and accelerate development. In particular, after the approval of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone, we immediately set up a leading group for the construction of the Huzhou cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone headed by the main leaders of the municipal government; held a special meeting of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and the Standing Committee of the Municipal Government at the first time to study the work of cross-border e-commerce; immediately set up a special work class, at least once a week, held a regular work meeting every half month, and held a city-wide work promotion meeting every quarter; Huzhou Customs Clearance Service Center” public institutions, municipal and district and county commerce departments are equipped with a cross-border e-commerce work team of no less than 5 people to fully serve the construction of the city’s cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone. At present, the 9710 and 9810 businesses of cross-border e-commerce have achieved full coverage of the “first order” business in the districts and counties under their jurisdiction, and by the end of November, the two business volumes ranked third in Hangzhou Customs District.
The second is to focus on the construction of the platform and consolidate the main team. At present, a total of 74 e-commerce parks have been built, with 2,582 enterprises settled, including 14 cross-border e-commerce industrial park bases and 647 settled enterprises. Anji SIPG Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park was selected as a provincial-level cross-border e-commerce industrial park, and Changxing cross-border e-commerce industrial park was selected as a provincial 4A-level e-commerce industrial park base. More than 1,200 cross-border e-commerce business entities have been cultivated. Intensify efforts to attract cross-border e-commerce platforms and headquarters. At present, the provincial cross-border e-commerce comprehensive service platform “Kirin Plan” has landed in South Taihu New Area, Nanxun District, Changxing County and Deqing County. At the same time, a number of cross-border e-commerce platforms, park operations and service support projects have been introduced, such as Pangu Group, Dalong.com, and Global Trade.
The third is to focus on industrial clusters and clarify the main direction of attack. Vigorously promote the “regional industrial cluster + cross-border e-commerce” model, Wuxing textile and garment (children’s clothing), Anji green home, Nanxun wood, Deqing leisure culture, Changxing textile, etc. have been shortlisted for the provincial cross-border e-commerce industry cluster development pilot, taking the lead in the province to achieve full coverage of districts and counties. This year, 4 districts and counties in our city were selected into the annual provincial cross-border e-commerce industry cluster special incentive list, and received a special incentive fund of 12 million yuan. At the same time, a number of municipal-level pilot industrial clusters such as Nanxun Electromechanical, Deqing Mechanical and Electronics, Changxing New Energy, and South Taihu New Energy Vehicles have been cultivated and formed.
Fourth, focus on model innovation and cultivate competitive advantages. It was the first in the country to create the “underwriting cross-border e-commerce + overseas warehouse” model, and the first ticket in March.Since the trial order, it has provided 358 votes and 16.07 million US dollars of credit insurance services for 26 companies. In the province, the first commercial, agricultural and postal cooperation model was launched, and the commercial, agricultural and rural affairs, and postal management departments jointly signed the “Framework Agreement on Strengthening Commercial, Agricultural and Postal Cooperation to Promote Coordinated Development” to strengthen support for cross-border e-commerce logistics and warehousing comprehensive services. At the same time, we will strengthen the cultivation of talents, carry out cooperation between local schools and schools, jointly build the “Huzhou Digital Trade College”, and accelerate the cooperation between government, industry, academia and research and the training of professional talents in cross-border e-commerce.
Fifth, focus on service guarantee and create a good environment. Strengthen policy guarantees, make full use of existing foreign trade, e-commerce and other policies, and achieve “one redemption in one quarter”, and since the beginning of this year, nearly 7 billion yuan of various policy funds have been paid for the city’s foreign trade and cross-border e-commerce enterprises; The “Several Opinions on Promoting the Development of New Trade Formats and New Models in Huzhou City” was studied and promulgated, focusing on increasing support for the development of new models such as cross-border e-commerce. Accelerate the construction of infrastructure, speed up the construction of the online comprehensive service platform of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone, the cross-border e-commerce collaborative support platform, and speed up the construction of customs supervision stations, Huzhou Bonded Logistics Center (Type B) has a business volume of more than 100 million US dollars since the closure and operation in February, the main construction of Deqing Bonded Logistics Center (Type B) has been completed, and the cross-border e-commerce 9610 and market procurement (1039) station in Zhili Town, Wuxing District is stepping up construction. Improve comprehensive conversions. Vigorously attract digital business services, Deqing and Anji have been selected into the pilot list of provincial-level foreign trade and economic cooperation overseas comprehensive service system construction; the city has cultivated and formed a number of provincial-level cross-border e-commerce service providers such as Nisu Technology and Deyang Technology, and built 10 comprehensive foreign trade service platforms such as Deqing China-Africa Economic and Trade Port and Anji Guohao; carried out the pilot work of municipal public overseas warehouses, released the Huzhou overseas warehouse directory, and 41 enterprises have laid out 57 overseas warehouses in the United States, Germany and other places.
(Contributed by Huzhou Municipal Trade and Food Bureau)