China News Service, Changchun, January 25 (Reporter Guo Jia) The reporter learned from the ongoing Two Sessions of Jilin Province on the 25th that in 2023, the import and export of cross-border e-commerce in Jilin Province will increase by 88.9% year-on-year, and cross-border e-commerce will also become a driving force. A new growth point for the province's trade with Russia.

　　Jilin is an important window for China's opening to the north. Over the years, while strengthening its highway and railway freight capacity, the province has continuously promoted opening up to the outside world through "borrowing ports to go to sea" and "domestic trade and foreign transportation".

In the past two years, Jilin Province has taken advantage of the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce to bring the scale of trade with Russia to a new level.

At present, Russia has become Jilin Province’s second largest trading partner.

　　Hunchun is the forefront of Jilin's opening up to Russia. It not only has highways and railway ports with Russia, but also has platforms such as a comprehensive bonded zone and a cross-border e-commerce industrial park.

Hunchun Mayor Zhang Linguo said in an interview with the media at the Jilin Province Two Sessions News Channel that in 2023, Hunchun’s total foreign trade import and export exceeded 20 billion yuan, reaching 21.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 42.8%.

　　Hunchun Northeast Asia Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park is located near Hunchun Comprehensive Bonded Zone. It has a comprehensive service platform that integrates product exhibition and sales, business incubation, financial settlement, warehousing and logistics and other functions.

The Hunchun Northeast Asia International Commodity City in the industrial park has nearly 10,000 kinds of products from various countries in the Northeast Asia region, as well as Spain and France, filling the shelves with a dazzling array.

On October 21, 2022, consumers purchased goods at Hunchun Northeast Asia International Commodity City.

(File photo) Photo courtesy of Northeast Asia Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park

　　The reporter learned from the Hunchun Northeast Asia Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park that in 2023, the industrial park will vigorously expand overseas warehouses in places such as Ussuriysk, Russia, and Incheon, South Korea, and add new warehouses in Dongguan, Yiwu, Ningbo and other places in China. 28 front-end cargo collection warehouses have greatly improved cross-border e-commerce warehousing support capabilities.

　　In 2023, the industrial park achieved a cross-border e-commerce trade volume of approximately 5.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 44.3%. The volume of cross-border e-commerce land transportation to Russia has ranked first in China for many consecutive years.

　　At the same time, the Jilin Province Hunchun International Mail Exchange Bureau, established in 2023, has improved the cross-border e-commerce cargo transportation system of rail, land and air, shortening the transportation time from Hunchun to Moscow to 5 days, and has become China's answer to Russia in one fell swoop. One of the most convenient, stable and favorable channels for cross-border e-commerce.

　　Zhang Linguo said that Hunchun City will give full play to its role as a frontier window, continuously optimize the open cooperation platform, strengthen cross-border logistics distribution of bonded goods and other businesses, further enrich the types of imported goods, and create a cross-border e-commerce complex that "buys globally and sells globally" .

　　Zhang Linguo revealed that the city will also strengthen cooperation with neighboring countries and port enterprises in Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shandong and other places on the basis of cultivating and expanding existing routes, and strive to build Hunchun into an international trade and logistics hub with certain influence.

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