Cross-border e-commerce is accelerating the transformation and development of foreign trade exports of old industrial bases. Data show that in the first five months of this year, the cross-border e-commerce transaction volume of Jilin Province reached 1.36 billion yuan, an increase of 28% year-on-year; of which, the cross-border e-commerce retail import and export volume increased by 15.3 times year-on-year.
"Cross-border e-commerce has opened up new space for the development of Jilin's foreign trade exports, and has become a breakthrough and a new growth point for the revitalization of Jilin's old industrial base." Wang Zhiwei, director of the Jilin Provincial Department of Commerce, said in an interview with a reporter from the Economic Daily. Since the beginning of this year, in the face of the impact of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, Jilin Province has taken the construction of the "Digital Jilin" as its lead and relied on the construction of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zone to accelerate the promotion of cross-border e-commerce to improve quality and efficiency, innovate the form of foreign trade exports, and expand Foreign trade export development space.
Zhejiang is the counterpart support province for the revitalization of the old industrial base in Jilin. With the help of Zhejiang Province, the new format of cross-border e-commerce has grown rapidly in Jilin Province. At the end of April, the project of cross-border e-commerce operation center in Jizhe started operation in the Science and Technology Innovation Plaza of Changchun Economic and Technological Development Zone. The project focuses on the four major businesses of cross-border e-commerce trade, operations, supply chain and R&D. It provides employment training for college students and comprehensive services such as supply chain finance for enterprises and individuals. At the same time, it connects with the rich cross-border e-commerce resources in Zhejiang Province, attracts a group of enterprises to settle down, and gradually cultivates the cross-border e-commerce ecosystem.
Jilin Mantianxin Technology Co., Ltd. is the first channel distributor in China licensed by Alibaba Group’s International Division. The company’s chairman Wei Xin told reporters that the Changchun Jingkai Comprehensive Test Zone provided more than 200 square meters of office space to support the development of the enterprise. . According to statistics, in the first five months of this year, enterprises in Jilin Province completed online cross-border e-commerce transactions at Alibaba International Station, an increase of 41.3%.
Set up a comprehensive test platform and build an international channel. On April 27, Jilin City’s cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zone was approved by the State Council. This is the third national-level cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zone in Jilin Province after Changchun and Hunchun. On April 29, Jilin issued the "Implementation Plan for the Construction of China (Hunchun) Cross-border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone"; on May 21, cross-border e-commerce goods with a value of 700,000 yuan entered the Hunchun Comprehensive Protection Zone through the Hunchun Railway Port The successful declaration also marked the official opening of the "1210" business of Hunchun Comprehensive Test Zone's cross-border e-commerce import bonded stocks; June 4th, the "e Xinglong" bonded O2O experience center of the Changchun Xinglong Comprehensive Protection Zone Import and Export Commodity Exhibition and Trading Center, The completion of the province’s first cross-border e-commerce O2O bonded display business test marked the initial success of the “sinking” of cross-border e-commerce channels.
The construction of logistics channels is an important support for cross-border e-commerce. In March of this year, the Changchun-Seoul cross-border freight charter flight carrying about 10 tons of cross-border e-commerce parcels and general trade cargo was successfully inaugurated at Changchun Longjia International Airport, filling the gap of the Changchun-South Korea freighter channel. The three China-Europe trains covering Manchuria-Europe, Changhui-Europe, Changchun-Hamburg, etc. have also broadened the development of cross-border e-commerce in Jilin Province. Liu Xiaodi, deputy director of the Foreign Trade Administration Department of the Department of Commerce of Jilin Province, said that in the next step, it will actively promote the linkage between the three cities of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area in Changchun, Hunchun and Jilin, and import and export will be carried out in both directions to accelerate the transformation and development of foreign trade exports. Revitalization of the old industrial base.
