[Explanation] The first China Cross-border E-commerce Fair with the theme of "linking cross-border and whole river basins and building a new e-commerce ecology" kicked off on March 18 at the Fuzhou Strait International Convention and Exhibition Center.

This year's Inter-Expo has attracted 33 mainstream global cross-border e-commerce platforms, more than 200 cross-border e-commerce service companies and more than 2,000 supplier companies.

  [Explanation] In the exhibition hall, a clothing company from Shishi, Fujian displayed many new designs of spring and summer women's clothing. They came to participate in the cross fair this time. They also hope to connect with more exhibitors and further expand the international market.

  [Concurrent] Exhibitor Zhan Pingping

  The epidemic has a considerable impact on export companies, so we start from offline to online, cross-border e-commerce is a good trend, and then there are fewer buyers from abroad, if we are in cross-border e-commerce Doing it will definitely have a pretty good prospect, and doing cross-border in the future will not lose to foreign buyers in the past to purchase.

  [Explanation] The lighting crafts in front of us have different shapes and styles. This exhibitor from Zhejiang is mainly export business, and its products are exported to Europe and the United States and other markets.

Since 2020, due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, foreign trade orders have decreased. This time participating in the inter-trade fair, companies also hope to find more opportunities through this.

  [Concurrent] Exhibitor Hong Yuan

  The cause of the epidemic. Foreigners are now shopping more e-commerce. For holiday lights like ours, they usually sell more in supermarkets in the past years, and then recently Amazon has begun to sell a lot of festivals like ours. light.

If we go to e-commerce, we have a price advantage and we produce it ourselves, so we want to find a new path.

  [Explanation] The reporter noticed that the products displayed at the Inter-Expo covers digital, home furnishing, maternal and infant, footwear, gardening, auto parts and other cross-border e-commerce hot products.

The organizer also hopes to solve the pain points of online product selection through centralized product display and offline negotiation, and to open up overseas incremental markets through the channel of cross-border e-commerce.

  [Explanation] Statistics show that China's cross-border e-commerce exports will reach 1.12 trillion yuan in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 40.1%.

The new crown pneumonia epidemic has brought a huge impact to the foreign trade industry and also brought a new stage for the cross-border e-commerce industry.

According to industry insiders, many traditional foreign trade companies are facing transformation and upgrading. Cross-border e-commerce has become a new format and model of foreign trade due to its favorable policies and broad prospects.

  [Concurrent] Chen Wen, General Manager of Chinese Suppliers on Alibaba International Station

  The cross-exchange is a very good accelerator. It not only accelerates our industrial upgrade, brand upgrade, and brand going overseas from the supply side, but also releases a signal to buyers all over the world, through digital going to the sea, through digital foreign trade. I think this is a very positive signal for buyers and sellers to be more matched, more assured, and more efficient.

  [Concurrent] Chen Gang, Executive Vice President of Newegg Group China

  In the post-epidemic era, we feel that cross-border e-commerce should move toward platform, sunshine, and formalization.

While doing a good job of e-commerce compliance, platformization and sunshine, we develop high-quality sellers in China, and truly achieve quality in China and the world.

  [Explanation] The reporter learned that during the first China Cross-border E-commerce Fair, 2021 "Silk Road E-commerce" International Cooperation Forum, China Cross-border E-commerce Financial Capital Summit Forum, China Cross-border E-commerce Technology Conference, and Cross-border E-commerce Technology Conference will also be held. Dozens of industry events including e-commerce talent training summit forums.

  Reporter Wu Shengwei reports from Fuzhou, Fujian

Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]