Respondents in the industry believe that cross-border e-commerce will reduce the cost of foreign trade, improve trade efficiency and improve trade facilitation, which will become the trend of future foreign trade development.At the same time, new technological means and new models continue to innovate, accelerating the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade to provide a strong impetus.

Open a new path for foreign trade

According to the report of the 19th national congress of the communist party of China (CPC), "we will expand foreign trade, foster new modes of trade and promote the building of a strong trading nation".Nowadays, in the field of foreign trade, "cross-border e-commerce", "comprehensive service platform for foreign trade", "market procurement" and other hot words are becoming familiar, gradually becoming an important way for foreign trade enterprises to open the international market and promote transformation and upgrading.

What makes foreign trade enterprises more happy is that the government's encouragement policy is still working hard, and the development of cross-border e-commerce is coming to a new positive.

he new business is full of momentum

Since 2014, eight departments, including the ministry of commerce, have successively carried out trials of market procurement trade in eight units, including yiwu in zhejiang province, in three batches.Since 2016, five departments including the ministry of commerce have carried out trials of comprehensive service enterprises.

According to the data, the total retail import and export volume of China through the customs cross-border e-commerce management platform reached 90.24 billion yuan in 2017, an increase of 80.6 percent year-on-year.

Under many new business models of foreign trade development, the development of cross-border e-commerce is getting better.As of July 9, there were nine cross-border e-commerce companies listed, accounting for 18.75 percent of all e-commerce listed companies and a total market value of 59.2 billion yuan, according to the e-commerce research center.