Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 23 (Reporters Pan Jie and Xie Xiyao) Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Shu Jueting said on the 23rd that by the end of 2022, the State Council has established 165 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot areas in seven batches, covering 31 A province, autonomous region, and city has basically formed a development pattern of land, sea, and overseas linkages, and two-way mutual aid between the east and the west.
Shu Jueting said at the regular press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce on the same day that in recent years, the comprehensive test area, as an innovation highland for the development of cross-border e-commerce, has effectively helped foreign trade to stabilize its scale and optimize its structure, and has strongly promoted the innovative development of business formats. It has the characteristics of high proportion of scale, continuous optimization of main body quality, and increasingly complete industrial supporting facilities.
According to customs data, in 2022, my country's cross-border e-commerce import and export volume will reach 2.11 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.8%, of which the import and export volume of each comprehensive test area accounts for more than 90%. There are about 200,000 enterprises, of which more than 9,300 are recognized as high-tech enterprises; the comprehensive test areas are actively building cross-border e-commerce industrial parks, enriching various supporting facilities, and a number of professionals in payment, logistics, marketing and other links have emerged service provider.
Shu Jueting said that the next step will continue to promote the construction of the comprehensive test area, and focus on four aspects of work: first, build a group of excellent pilots to achieve differentiated development; second, cultivate a group of backbone enterprises to enhance comprehensive competitiveness; It is to promote a batch of experience and practice and replicate it to the whole country; the fourth is to accelerate international cooperation in the field of cross-border e-commerce, support various entities to develop overseas markets, and strengthen coordination and interaction with other countries in the formulation of rules and standard construction.