Cross-border e-commerce welcomes good news! The second expansion to 33 locations this year was approved! Four provinces have achieved full coverage

The Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone ushered in its second expansion this year!

On November 24, the State Council issued an approval to establish cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones in 33 cities and regions including Langfang. So far, there are 165 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones nationwide.

The last expansion was in February. This is the second expansion of the pilot this year. The reporter noted that after this expansion, Shandong Province has achieved full coverage of the province’s districts and cities, becoming the fourth province in China to achieve full coverage of the provincial, district and city cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones.

In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, cross-border e-commerce has become an important starting point for stabilizing foreign trade and promoting consumption with policy support. From a national perspective, after the scale of cross-border e-commerce last year approached 2 trillion yuan, my country's cross-border e-commerce has maintained steady and rapid growth this year. Cross-border e-commerce B2B direct exports and cross-border e-commerce exports to overseas warehouses have grown rapidly. At the local level, import and export volumes in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places grew rapidly in the first three quarters through the customs cross-border e-commerce management platform.

Covering 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, with full coverage in four provinces

Cross-border e-commerce refers to the electronic transaction model across borders. Traditional cross-border trade, which involves transactions and payments through e-commerce platforms, is an international commercial activity.

Approval has been approved in Langfang City, Cangzhou City, Yuncheng City, Baotou City, Anshan City, Yanji City, Tongjiang City, Bengbu City, Nanping City, Ningde City, Pingxiang City, Xinyu City, Yichun City, Ji'an City, Zaozhuang City, Jining City, Tai'an City, Dezhou City, Liaocheng City, Binzhou City, Heze City, Jiaozuo City, Xuchang City, Hengyang City, Zhuzhou City, Liuzhou City, Hezhou City, Yibin City, Dazhou City, Tongren City 33 cities and regions including Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Lhasa City, and Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture have established cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones, named China (city or region name) cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones. The specific implementation plans are determined by the local provinces. People's governments at all levels are responsible for printing and issuing.

Hong Yong, associate researcher at the Institute of E-Commerce of the Ministry of Commerce Research Institute, told reporters that this expansion is the seventh batch of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones since the establishment of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone, and it is also the first time In the same year, two batches of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones were established. At the same time, this expansion includes Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, filling the gap that there is no cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone in Tibet.

After this expansion, Shandong Province has achieved full coverage of all districts and cities in the province. Previously, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong also achieved full coverage.

“The cities where the 33 newly established cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones are located have a good foreign trade foundation, and more attention is paid to the central and western regions and border areas in terms of geographical distribution.” Hong Yong said that the newly established cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones have The pilot zone reflects the government's continued emphasis on new cross-border e-commerce formats, and also demonstrates the government's confidence and determination to further expand reform and opening up. It hopes to use cross-border e-commerce to help the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and promote the optimized development of foreign trade.

Copy and promote the mature experiences and practices of the first six batches of comprehensive pilot zones to protect personal information rights

The approval requires that the construction of comprehensive pilot zones must replicate and promote the mature experiences and practices of the first six batches of comprehensive pilot zones. , give full play to the positive role of cross-border e-commerce in assisting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, promoting the development of industrial digitalization, promoting the optimization and upgrading of foreign trade, and accelerating the construction of a powerful trading country.

At the same time, we must unswervingly implement the overall national security concept, do a good job in risk prevention, and persist in regulating development and developing in regulation. It is necessary to protect the rights and interests of personal information and create a good business environment for all types of market entities to participate in market competition fairly.

The "Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China" will come into effect on November 1, 2021, and it will be exactly one year at the beginning of this month.

According to the latest data released by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, since 2018, procuratorial organs across the country have arrested 16,459 people and prosecuted 33,417 people for infringing on citizens’ personal information. Among them, 1,199 people were arrested and 6,223 people were prosecuted from January to September 2022, a decrease of 47.2% and an increase of 87.9% respectively compared with the same period in 2018. This shows that since the implementation of the Personal Information Protection Law one year ago, problems such as the misuse of personal information by relevant companies have been greatly improved.

Hong Yong believes that in the field of cross-border e-commerce, the construction of "e-commerce integrity" and "risk prevention" systems need to be further strengthened.

It is necessary to refine the standard rules for data security and personal information protection, improve the formulation and regulatory framework for intellectual property protection in new business formats, and strengthen the national security system and capacity building. We should make full use of open platforms such as free trade pilot zones, service trade innovative development pilots, cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones, economic and technological development zones, and high-tech zones, and actively strive for competitive neutrality, cross-border data flow, cross-border payments, and personal We will conduct pilot trials in areas such as privacy protection and artificial intelligence, conduct stress tests, and propose Chinese solutions for global e-commerce governance.

The approval also requires that the people's governments of relevant provinces (autonomous regions) should further refine the pilot tasks, highlight key points, be driven by innovation, give full play to the decisive role of the market in allocating resources, better play the role of the government, and effectively guide Social resources, rational allocation of public resources, and solid advancement of the construction of comprehensive experimental zones. It is necessary to establish and improve the cross-border e-commerce information management mechanism and provide relevant electronic information in a timely manner according to the management needs of relevant departments. It is necessary to regularly submit work plans, pilot experiences and results to the Ministry of Commerce and other departments, and strive to achieve new progress and breakthroughs in improving the institutional mechanisms for promoting the development of cross-border e-commerce and promoting the construction of supporting support systems.

Cross-border e-commerce has become an important starting point for stabilizing foreign trade and promoting consumption

Chinese e-commerce platforms help global small and medium-sized enterprises to explore the Chinese market. According to statistics, my country’s cross-border e-commerce will enter the market in 2021. The export scale is nearly 2 trillion yuan. Entering 2022, my country's cross-border e-commerce will maintain steady and rapid growth. The latest data shows that the cross-border e-commerce import and export transaction volume in the first half of the year increased by 28.6% year-on-year.

Customs data also shows that cross-border e-commerce B2B direct exports and cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse trade are growing rapidly. At the local level, in the first three quarters, exports by enterprises in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places through the customs cross-border e-commerce management platform increased by 1.5 times and 2.4 times respectively. Guangdong’s cross-border e-commerce import and export volume exceeded 300 billion yuan, achieving cross-border e-commerce. The overseas e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone covers all provinces, ranking first in the country in terms of number.

The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Research Institute recently released the "2022 China E-Commerce Development Trend Report: The Important Role of E-Commerce in High-Quality Economic Development." The report points out that, with policy support, cross-border e-commerce has become an important means of stabilizing foreign trade and promoting consumption. Cross-border e-commerce has become an important channel for consumers to purchase globally. In the process of upgrading Chinese residents’ consumption, personalization and diversification have gradually become mainstream. The decentralized and global characteristics of cross-border e-commerce can meet the needs of consumers in pursuit of personalization. .

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