The number of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas has increased to 165, covering 31 provinces

　　Our reporter Liu Meng

　　According to news from the Chinese government website on November 24, the "Reply of the State Council on Approving the Establishment of Cross-border E-Commerce Comprehensive Experimental Zones in Langfang and other 33 Cities and Regions" (hereinafter referred to as the "Reply") was released, and the State Council agreed to set up cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones in Langfang City and Cangzhou City. 33 cities and regions, including Yuncheng and Yuncheng, have set up cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas, named China (city or region name) cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas.

　　Prior to this, the State Council carried out in six batches in 132 cities including Hangzhou, Ningbo and Tianjin in March 2015, January 2016, July 2018, December 2019, April 2020 and January 2022. The construction of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area.

This time, the State Council approved the establishment of 33 new cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot areas.

So far, there are 165 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot areas across the country.

　　Zhang Yiqun, deputy director of the Performance Management Special Committee of the Chinese Society of Finance and Economics, said in an interview with a reporter from the Securities Daily that this expansion has filled the gap that the Tibet Autonomous Region does not have a cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area. The southern coastal area expands to inland provinces, and extends from central cities and provincial capitals to second- and third-tier cities, covering 31 provinces.

　　Mingming, the chief economist of CITIC Securities, told the reporter of Securities Daily that from the perspective of layout time, based on the accumulation of relevant practical experience, the interval between approval of adjacent batches has been shortened; from the perspective of regional layout, it has basically formed The linkage between inland and coastal, east and west dimensions is conducive to coordinated regional development.

　　The "Reply" requires, "Copy and promote the mature experience and practices of the first six batches of comprehensive pilot zones, give full play to the positive role of cross-border e-commerce in helping the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and promoting the digital development of industries, promote the optimization and upgrading of foreign trade, and accelerate the construction of a trade power."

　　In April of this year, the results of the "2021 Cross-Border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone Evaluation" were released. This is the first time that the Ministry of Commerce has built a total of 105 comprehensive test zones in the first five batches of the country since the establishment of the Cross-Border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone in 2015. Progress assessment.

　　In Mingming’s view, by analyzing the specific measures of the 10 cities in the first tier of comprehensive rankings, some empirical practices with high applicability can be roughly drawn. The first is the basic framework of “six systems and two platforms”, that is, information sharing, The "six systems" of financial services, intelligent logistics, e-commerce integrity, statistical monitoring, and risk prevention and control, and the "two platforms" of online comprehensive services and offline industrial parks; the second is the formulation of an implementation plan for the construction of a cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone , such as the "government investment + market-oriented operation" approach, strengthening the construction of public service platforms, etc.

　　Xiao Benhua, deputy director of the Free Trade Zone Research Institute of Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, believes that in addition to copying mature experience, it is also necessary to copy and promote the concepts of the first six batches, such as adhering to problem-oriented and effectively solving the problems in the development of cross-border e-commerce; insisting on the concept of system , Supporting the development of cross-border e-commerce from customs supervision, finance, taxation and finance.

　　In recent years, cross-border e-commerce has become an important trend in the development of international trade.

Data show that in 2020, China's cross-border e-commerce import and export scale will be 1.62 trillion yuan, an increase of 25.7%.

In 2021, China's cross-border e-commerce import and export scale will reach 1.92 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.6%, achieving continuous growth.

Wang Shouwen, the international trade negotiator and vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce, said at a regular policy briefing of the State Council on September 27 that in the first eight months of this year, China's cross-border e-commerce still showed a very good growth momentum.

　　Talking about the role of the establishment of a cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone for foreign trade optimization and upgrading, Mingming said that first of all, cross-border e-commerce will help drive the transformation of traditional foreign trade enterprises and enhance the competitiveness of my country's foreign trade enterprises.

For foreign trade companies that rely on offline channels to sell and expand overseas markets, some areas are affected by the epidemic and offline activities are inconvenient. However, cross-border e-commerce can enable them to expand their markets and expand their sales scale online.

Superimposing the support of national policies will also help related companies reduce operating costs, which is of great significance to maintaining foreign trade entities and orders; secondly, cross-border e-commerce will help Chinese companies establish their own product image and improve the comprehensive development of my country's foreign trade quality.

(Securities Daily)