Recently, officials with the foreign trade department of the Ministry of Commerce talked about the setup of cross-border e-commerce platforms in 22 cities.
Developing cross-border e-commerce platform is a major measure to promote the foreign trade development. E-commerce is still a new form in foreign trade, which is at a rapid development phase. The trade volume of pilot zones have doubled during the past two years, a new growth engine of foreign trade development, reads the Ministry’s press release.
Special efforts should be paid to the technological standard, business procedure, regulation mode and information construction regarding the Business to Business process.
Relevant government agencies should take cross-border e-commerce as a new opportunity, applying innovative regulation to promote the foreign trade liberation, facilitation and innovation.
Risks at the pilot zones should also be controlled well. (Source: Ministry of Commerce)