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According to the website of the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference. Press spokesperson Shu Jueting attended and answered reporters' questions.
The following is the transcript of the press conference:
Reporter: In the recent holiday shopping season in Europe and the United States, some cross-border e-commerce platforms performed well. How does the Ministry of Commerce evaluate the development of new business formats such as cross-border e-commerce this year? What other work will be carried out in the future?
Spokesperson Shu Jueting: Since the fourth quarter, many cross-border e-commerce platforms have further won the favor of consumers from many countries, including Europe and the United States, by holding promotional activities, increasing traffic investment, and improving service levels. During the holiday shopping season, performed well. Industry data shows that the transaction value of some platforms in the European and American markets more than tripled in November. Since the beginning of this year, China’s cross-border e-commerce has continued to grow rapidly. In the first three quarters, cross-border e-commerce imports and exports reached 1.7 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.4%, driving the growth rate of imports and exports of goods trade in the same period by more than 1 percentage point.
This year, we requested the State Council to issue the "Opinions on Promoting a Stable Scale and Optimized Structure of Foreign Trade" to encourage localities to develop "cross-border e-commerce + industrial belts." Together with relevant departments, the "Relevant Measures to Support the Development of Cross-border E-commerce Overseas Warehouses" was issued. Optimize export return measures for cross-border e-commerce companies. Organize on-site meetings on cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouses, hold special training on new business formats, select outstanding practical cases, copy and promote experience and practices, and take multiple measures to promote the healthy, sustainable and innovative development of cross-border e-commerce.
In the next step, we will continue to adhere to a problem-oriented approach, pay equal attention to regulation and development, and focus on three aspects of work. The first is to strengthen capacity building. Give full play to the role of industry organizations, conduct training focusing on issues of concern to enterprises such as platform compliance and intellectual property protection, and help cross-border e-commerce enterprises explore overseas markets. The second is to promote data sharing. Strengthen the construction of overseas smart logistics platforms, further optimize the functions of the online comprehensive service platform in the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone, and guide more cross-border e-commerce companies, overseas warehouse companies, etc. to connect. The third is to speed up the construction of standards. my country has formed more than 100 national standards, industry standards and other various standards in the field of cross-border e-commerce. We will encourage localities to integrate more practices with mature content and good application effects into standards based on actual conditions.
