On the one hand, "Chinese brands" are selling overseas; on the other hand, overseas goods are entering the Chinese market. In recent years, "silk road e-commerce" to open a two-way trade channel, become "one belt and one road" an important part of economic and trade cooperation. The Ministry of Commerce recently released information shows that the "silk road e-commerce" international cooperation continues to deepen, the "circle of friends" is expanding bigger and bigger.
Partners increase opportunities
Guangzhou Baiyun Airport export cargo terminal, a number of home appliances, clothes, toys and other "made in China" goods, mainly export cross-border e-commerce parcels "ready to go", will soon take the export flight, shipped to Pakistan, South Africa and other Countries along the "Belt and Road". As one of the important international aviation hubs of the "Belt and Road" initiative and the "Air Silk Road", such a hot scene often appears in Guangzhou Baiyun Airport.
More than 1,000 kilometers away from Shanghai, Qingpu Comprehensive Free Trade Zone warehouses are neatly stacked with countless goods, including the same exhibits of the Fourth Fair. After the 4th Fair, these exhibits from all over the world go online on the cross-border e-commerce platform and are available for consumers to buy online. Once someone places an order, the goods can be shipped directly from the warehouse in Qingpu Comprehensive Free Trade Zone. Now, this "exhibits into goods" model to attract businessmen from around the world to the Fair, become "Silk Road Electricity" participants.
"At the end of 2016, the Ministry of Commerce of China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile signed the first bilateral memorandum of understanding on e-commerce cooperation. In recent years, the "silk road e-commerce" circle of friends has been expanding, showing strong vitality and strong tenacity, ushering in new development opportunities.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce said that China has signed memorandums of understanding with more than 20 countries on e-commerce cooperation and established bilateral e-commerce cooperation mechanisms to jointly carry out policy communication, planning docking, industry promotion, local cooperation, capacity building and other multi-level and multi-disciplinary cooperation. At present, the "Silk Road e-commerce" partners across five continents, becoming a new channel for economic and trade cooperation and new highlights.
Broad channels to enhance communication
"Silk Road Electricity" international cooperation continues to deepen, an important reason is that China's national level cooperation mechanism and local level hub nodes to build are in full speed. In recent years, the State Council has set up six batches of comprehensive pilot zones for cross-border e-commerce, a series of policies to support the development of cross-border e-commerce have taken effect, and the list of cross-border e-commerce retail imports has been enriched.
With the deep integration of the "Belt and Road" construction across the country, especially under the influence of factors such as the epidemic, offline development of the market is hampered, "Silk Road e-commerce" has become an important tool to accelerate the promotion of the "Belt and Road "Many places take the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone as the basis, and make efforts to build themselves into the "Silk Road e-commerce" node cities.
China also held a series of activities, through the sale of special zones, base live, online country pavilion and multi-platform linkage, etc., to promote the "Silk Road e-commerce" partner countries high-quality special products to the Chinese market, to expand new channels of trade and investment. In September this year, 2022 China-ASEAN Silk Road Electricity Business Forum was held in Nanning, Guangxi. As a series of activities of the forum, the online forum special network promotion festival for more than 10 days, with the promotion mode of "Internet + special products", help Guangxi special products "go out". At the same time, the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Guangxi Expo Bureau jointly instructed the ShakeYin platform to hold a special live broadcast with goods recommended by ASEAN goodies, invited diplomats from ASEAN countries to interact and exchange, and recommended Chinese and ASEAN special e-commerce products.
Both to enhance communication, but also to enhance the ability. In recent years, the Department of E-commerce and Informatization of the Ministry of Commerce also co-founded the Silk Road E-commerce "lecture on the cloud" with partner countries, organizing domestic experts to teach government officials and e-commerce practitioners in partner countries live, covering policies and regulations, development trends, innovative practices and practical skills. For the special products of partner countries, we invited experts in the fields of agricultural specialties community e-commerce and live e-commerce to discuss and exchange ideas about expanding the market. Dozens of live lectures have attracted more than 6,000 online participants from more than 20 countries, with more than 100,000 times of playback.
Results show great potential
Rwanda's coffee and chili peppers have entered China through e-commerce platforms, Iceland's online retail has grown significantly, and thousands of enterprises along the "Belt and Road" have optimized their products and services through e-commerce cooperation. ...... Today, the "Silk Road Today, the fruitful results of the construction of "e-commerce" are constantly emerging.
In August this year held the sixth global cross-border e-commerce conference "silk road e-commerce" international cooperation (Zhengzhou) Summit Forum, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce, the first quarter of this year, China's cross-border e-commerce exports to countries along the "Belt and Road" growth rate reached 92.7%. More and more countries are interested in and looking forward to participating in the "Silk Road e-commerce". Uruguay is ready to cooperate with Chinese companies in cross-border e-commerce and is willing to help Chinese e-commerce platforms expand from Uruguay to the Caribbean and Latin America, said Fernando Luglis, Uruguay's ambassador to China. The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates in China, Ali Zahiri, also said that the "Silk Road E-Commerce" cooperation will promote traditional foreign trade enterprises to customize their production, and that cross-border e-commerce contains great potential for development. The UAE is willing to enhance and develop bilateral relations with China through "Silk Road E-Commerce".
Zhang Li, Director of E-commerce Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, pointed out that the positive effect of "Silk Road E-commerce" on the construction of "One Belt and One Road" is reflected in several aspects, including the promotion of "One Belt and One Road" countries along the "Belt and Road", driving the development of logistics, payment, digital, information and other multi-industry innovation in countries along the "Belt and Road", and promoting the "Belt and Road" trade network, digitalization and facilitation.
In the future, the "silk road e-commerce" cooperation level will continue to enrich, cooperation potential will be further explored. Some experts pointed out that it is worth noting that the current global economic recovery is still unbalanced, demand growth is slowing down, logistics time efficiency is declining, the pressure on business operating costs is increasing, and cross-border e-commerce and other new business models, new models of development there are still factors that do not fit. The relevant Chinese departments actively develop silk road e-commerce and more countries to establish bilateral cooperation mechanisms for e-commerce, and strive to develop new channels for international cooperation in e-commerce, adhere to the high standard of international economic and trade rules, and promote the development of cross-border e-commerce at a high level.
