This year marks the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China's cross-border e-commerce has developed rapidly and become a new highlight of stable foreign trade. So far, The State Council has set up 105 cross-border e-commerce pilot zones in five batches. The pilot project for cross-border e-commerce retail import was extended to 86 cities and the whole island of Hainan. China continues to improve cross-border e-commerce retail import policies and expand the scope of application; The construction of cross-border e-commerce industrial park has been accelerated in various regions; The Customs carried out cross-border e-commerce enterprise-to-enterprise (B2B) export supervision pilot project...

Cross-border e-commerce retail is growing rapidly

The driving effect of comprehensive test area is prominent

Data from the Ministry of Commerce shows that in 2019, the import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce retail sales reached 186.2 billion yuan, more than five times the scale at the beginning of the comprehensive trial zone for cross-border e-commerce. From January to September this year, it maintained a high growth rate of 52.8 percent.

"In recent years, global trade fragmentation trend began to emerge, promoted the cross-border electricity retail growth in imports and exports, especially overseas customers, small micro enterprises are seeking business opportunities from the Internet and buy products, plus electric business platform, the Internet increasingly mature and convenient, overseas sales channels has been established." Wang Jian, professor at the University of International Business and Economics and director of the Center for International Business Research, told China Trade News that the COVID-19 outbreak this year has also sharply increased the penetration rate of e-commerce worldwide, bringing opportunities for China's cross-border e-commerce.

QuWeiXi, vice President of the China's Ministry of Commerce international trade and economic cooperation research institute, said the frequent trade friction and COVID - 19 crisis brings to the traditional international trade situation under the situation of major challenges, cross-border electrical contractor to maintain rapid growth in China, at the same time to drive a large number of traditional trade and the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing enterprises, and promote the logistics, supply chain finance and foreign trade integrated services such as enterprise development, become a new foreign trade development momentum. Since 2016, China has signed mous on e-commerce cooperation with 22 countries and established bilateral e-commerce cooperation mechanisms with partners on five continents.

The comprehensive pilot zone for cross-border e-commerce plays an increasingly prominent role in the development of foreign trade. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China has continuously set up comprehensive trial zones for cross-border e-commerce in batches. Since January 2016 the State Council executive meeting decided in twelve cities including tianjin, Shanghai, chongqing set up the second batch of cross-border electricity heddle area, in April this year the State Council set up a new batch of 46 fifth cross-border electricity heddle area, at present, the country had 105 cross-border electricity heddle area, have covered 30 provinces, the formation of internal and external linkage on land or sea, two-way each other aid development pattern.

In 2016, the import volume of Tianjin cross-border e-commerce Integrated trial zone was 42.8524 million yuan, and in 2019, it reached 4.61 billion yuan. Nanning Comprehensive Trial Area for Cross-border E-commerce innovates to create the first "three in one" intensive supervision mode for international mail, cross-border e-commerce and international express in China, upgrade and improve the public service system for cross-border e-commerce, and reduce the overall time of export customs clearance from more than 8 hours to about 1 hour. China's first Internet Court for cross-border Trade was established in the Comprehensive Trial Area of cross-border e-commerce in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Shandong Weihai Comprehensive Trial Area for cross-border e-commerce and Incheon, South Korea, explored the "four-port linkage", realizing information exchange, mutual recognition of supervision and mutual assistance in law enforcement between seaports and airports.

According to Li Xinggan, director-general of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, there are now more than 140,000 registered entities in the comprehensive test area for cross-border e-commerce. Among them, some local platforms "go global" to expand into emerging markets such as the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa, and bring thousands of Chinese brands to sea. A group of unicorns innovated flexible supply chain and realized rapid development.

B2B export supervision pilot expansion

Comply with the export demand of enterprises

Since July 1 this year, 10 customs directly affiliated cities including Beijing, Tianjin and Nanjing have carried out trials of cross-border E-COMMERCE B2B export supervision, adding the customs supervision mode codes "9710" (cross-border e-commerce B2B direct export) and "9810" (cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse). On September 1st the pilot was expanded to 22. Under the new mode of supervision, cross-border e-commerce enterprises have many conveniences such as simplifying declaration, facilitating customs clearance, allowing customs transfer and giving priority to inspection for their exports.

Before the implementation of the reform, China's regulatory system and policies focused on cross-border e-commerce retail import and export, said an official with the port supervision Department under the General Administration of Customs. The reform has added special supervision methods and customs clearance facilitation measures for cross-border E-COMMERCE B2B exports, which will help promote the healthy and rapid development of new forms of foreign trade.

"The cross-border E-COMMERCE B2B export regulation pilot meets the needs of business development, and the business continues to expand and increase, showing a steady upward trend." Gao Ruifeng, deputy director of Beijing Customs, said that from the customs clearance data, the average daily business volume continues to increase, the number of enterprises involved, the number of declaration forms, export value and so on are constantly increasing. Data shows that as of August 30, the first batch of 10 cross-border e-commerce B2B export supervision pilot customs inspected and released a total of 6.322 million cross-border e-commerce B2B export shipments.

The relevant person in charge of EpP Solar Energy said that the implementation and implementation of the "9710" pilot program conforms to the demand of cross-border e-commerce B2B enterprises for bulk export, which will enable many cross-border e-commerce enterprises to export overseas in a more convenient and standardized way.

"We are a small, medium and micro enterprise. In the past, we could only declare customs clearance according to traditional trade methods." Jie Yiquan, general manager of Jiangsu Nanjing Lianli E-commerce Services Co., LTD, said that the pilot cross-border E-COMMERCE B2B export regulation aims at the fact that small, medium and micro cross-border e-commerce enterprises have low export invoice value and large export volume, and provides a series of facilitation measures to improve customs clearance efficiency but reduce customs clearance costs.

Hangzhou Quanzan E-commerce Co., Ltd. is an e-commerce company engaged in cross-border trade based on overseas warehouses. Xie Haiming, general manager of the company, said that on the first day of the trial, the company declared a batch of household products to Amazon's overseas warehouses in the form of code "9810". "The customs has incorporated the mode of exporting overseas storage into cross-border e-commerce supervision, providing a series of facilitation measures for enterprises in customs clearance, customs clearance and logistics," he said.

"As a new form of foreign trade, cross-border e-commerce enjoys strong policy support and has introduced supporting measures in finance, taxation and quality supervision. In this regard, communication and cooperation between various departments should be strengthened to promote the sound and rapid sustainable development of cross-border e-commerce." Zhang Shuibo, a professor of management and economics at Tianjin University, told reporters that in order to ensure the sustainable development of cross-border e-commerce, the credit system construction of cross-border e-commerce platforms must be improved. Especially during the epidemic, the customs should strictly control the quality of export epidemic prevention materials.

Wang jian said that during the 14th five-year Plan period, China needs to make full use of the new generation of information technology and strengthen the concept of new forms of business, new models and new business practices on the Internet. Due to the obvious trend of cross-border e-commerce fragmentation and the increasing number of small, medium and micro cross-border e-commerce enterprises, it is necessary to provide them with a good business environment, including ideas, laws and regulations. Sound laws and regulations and strong regulatory measures are important conditions for the development of cross-border e-commerce enterprises.