China News Service, Nanning, July 17 (Lin Haolin Jieqi) China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone Construction Headquarters Office (abbreviated as Guangxi Free Trade Office) introduced on the 17th, January-June 2021, Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone Cross-border e-commerce transactions in the areas (Nanning and Chongzuo) were 3.433 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 508.9%.

　　The Guangxi Free Trade Office stated that the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone played a pioneering role, strengthened cooperation with local governments where each area is located, and jointly cultivated new business forms and models of cross-border e-commerce, and achieved fruitful results.

Nanning and Chongzuo were successively approved as national cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot areas, and Qinzhou was approved as a cross-border e-commerce retail import pilot city.

Enterprises launching cross-border e-commerce in the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone have unique advantages such as preferential policies, efficient customs clearance, and convenient logistics.

　　At the beginning of last year, six departments including the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the "Notice on Expanding the Pilot Program of Cross-border E-commerce Retail Imports", which created opportunities for the development of cross-border e-commerce.

The Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone implements policy guidance to support the development of cross-border e-commerce, and provides financial support for the construction of cross-border e-commerce trading platforms registered and operated in the area, enterprises with large export quotas, and overseas warehouses.

The picture shows the cross-border e-commerce public customs clearance center in Chongzuo area of ​​China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Photo courtesy of Guangxi Free Trade Office

　　At the same time, the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone includes "9610" cross-border e-commerce export business, "9710" cross-border e-commerce enterprise-to-company export business, "9810" cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse business, and "1210" bonded e-commerce business. A variety of cross-border e-commerce business models, such as B2B export business, can provide diversified choices for enterprise development.

　　Guangxi Guangdi Business Service Co., Ltd., located in the Chongzuo area, was originally mainly engaged in general trade. After the Chongzuo area was approved as a national cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone on September 1, 2020, the company has also opened up new cross-border e-commerce businesses .

The picture shows the customs clearance of cross-border e-commerce goods.

Photo courtesy of Guangxi Free Trade Office

　　According to Liang Kaiyang, manager of the company’s customs declaration department, on September 1, 2020, the company declared the first batch of “9710” cross-border e-commerce goods in the park. "Cross-border e-commerce export business amounted to 250,000 yuan, and "9710" cross-border e-commerce B2B export business amounted to 11.73 million yuan.

Cross-border e-commerce allows companies to see new development opportunities.

　　Currently, the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone cross-border e-commerce online public service platform, bonded warehouses and cross-border commodity display online and offline experience store infrastructure is improving day by day, and e-commerce companies such as Best Logistics, overseas warehouses, and Super Technology are successively introduced More than 100, the initial formation of industrial clusters.

LAZADA Group, the largest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia, is building and operating a cross-border ecological innovation service center in Nanning, which can provide Chinese companies with services such as cross-border seller incubation, cross-border e-commerce live broadcast, and cross-border e-commerce training.

　　Currently, Guangxi's cross-border e-commerce logistics system facing ASEAN is gradually taking shape.

The Nanning area opened the China-Vietnam cross-border container train and the Nanning-Manila and Nanning-Bangkok cross-border e-commerce special lines to improve the capacity and efficiency of cross-border transportation.

The Qinzhou Port area has good port resources. Taking advantage of the mature transportation advantages of its new land-sea channel hub, it improves the efficiency of cargo clearance, reduces freight time, and reduces the company's operating costs and risks.

The Chongzuo area provides a green channel for cross-border e-commerce goods. Cross-border e-commerce goods cleared in the Pingxiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone can reach Vietnam in 1 day, Thailand in 2 days, and the United States in 3 days.

　　In terms of speeding up customs clearance, the Nanning area innovated to create a "three-in-one" intensive supervision model integrating international mail, cross-border e-commerce, and international express mail supervision. The time for customs clearance was reduced from the past 8 hours to 1 hour, and the efficiency of customs clearance was greatly improved. At present, the average customs clearance capacity of international mail and cross-border e-commerce has reached 1 million pieces per day.

The Chongzuo area declares cross-border e-commerce business in the form of "simplified declaration, list approval, and summary statistics", simplifying the declaration procedures, and realizes that 500,000 orders can be declared one hour after the simplified declaration, which greatly saves time and labor costs.

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