(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: The penetration rate of key e-commerce enterprises in key industries in China has reached 62.5%
China News Agency, Beijing, April 25 (Li Jingze) Li Ying, a first-level inspector of the Information Technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in Beijing on the 25th that in recent years, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has selected 41 industrial e-commerce pilot demonstration projects. Continue to promote the innovation and development of industrial e-commerce. As of the end of March 2020, the penetration rate of industrial e-commerce of key enterprises in key industries in China reached 62.5%. In the fields of raw materials and equipment, a number of industrial e-commerce platforms with transaction scales of 10 billion and 100 billion have been cultivated.
The State Council's joint defense and joint control mechanism held a press conference on the same day to introduce the e-commerce promotion of consumption and the promotion of economic upgrading and upgrading.
Li Ying introduced that since the outbreak of the epidemic, industrial e-commerce companies have focused on the difficulties, pain points, and blocking points of the epidemic prevention work, and fully played the role of support and empowerment.
One is to promote resumption of production. Relying on the emergency materials information gathered on the platform, the whole industrial chain from raw materials, production equipment to finished products was opened, and the production and marketing links were realized, which promoted the coordinated resumption of work by upstream and downstream enterprises and alleviated the shortage of emergency materials.
The second is to speed up the connection between production and demand. Accelerate the establishment of a platform for the release of information on the needs of emergency assets, and organize upstream and downstream enterprises in the supply chain to match the material needs of key epidemic areas, and help the production and demand sides efficiently match and dock.
The third is to empower SMEs. New models such as direct mining platforms, online live broadcasts, and supply chain finance help companies save on procurement costs, expand order sizes, and meet financing needs. Through the APP based on the industrial Internet platform to guide enterprises to migrate business systems to the cloud, to achieve a more comprehensive digital transformation.
"Next, we will further encourage large enterprises to actively build industrial e-commerce platforms on this basis, and SMEs to better apply industrial e-commerce platforms." Li Ying said.
In terms of promoting online consumption, Cai Yudong, deputy director of the Department of E-commerce of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the Ministry of Commerce and the State Post Bureau have further promoted the coordinated development of e-commerce and express logistics. Professional training. According to the statistics of business big data on 3.5 million merchants on the platform, the resumption rate is now nearly 90%.
"We are actively looking for ways to activate the consumer market and guide localities to carry out a series of online promotional activities according to local conditions." Cai Yudong said that according to the National Bureau of Statistics, the scale of online retailing in the first quarter of 2020 was basically the same as that in 2019, and the online retail sales of physical goods increased by 5.9 %, Which shows that the promotion effect of online retail on consumption has been further improved.
Cai Yudong said that the "Double Product Online Shopping Festival" organized by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Post Bureau, and the China Consumers Association will officially open on April 28 and continue until May 10. More than 109 platforms and companies participated in this event. In addition to comprehensive e-commerce, vertical e-commerce, and service e-commerce, there are also catering and tourism e-commerce actively participating. At the same time, the Ministry of Commerce also included foreign trade production enterprises in this event. Officials from the embassies of the Silk Road E-commerce partner countries in China will also participate in the promotion. (Finish)