The 2025 National Foreign Trade Work Conference proposed to expand cross-border e-commerce and other new forms of trade, promote the green development of trade digitalization, and help enterprises explore the international market.
Dalian Pulandian District has more than 400 textile and garment enterprises, known as "China famous suit city" and "China famous garment intelligent manufacturing city". In 2023, Pulandian District will establish a cross-border e-commerce innovation service base relying on the fashion industry innovation service complex. At present, there are 31 cross-border e-commerce enterprises, and 7 new cross-border e-commerce enterprises will be incubated in 2024, covering many industries with characteristics and advantages such as clothing, wood products processing, instrument transformers, and food processing. In 2024, the total import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce in the region is about 1.7 billion yuan, accounting for 10% of the total cross-border e-commerce in Dalian.
This is a vivid practice of "cross-border e-commerce + clothing" as an innovation breakthrough in Pulan Dian District, and it is also a successful epitome of China "cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt" model.
"Buy the world, sell the world", reduce the intermediate links of trade, break through the limitations of time and space... In recent years, cross-border e-commerce has become a new force to promote the high-quality development of China foreign trade. In 2024, China cross-border e-commerce imports and exports reached 2.63 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.8%, more than double the overall growth rate of China foreign trade in the same period.
Based on this, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Henan, Liaoning, Shanxi and many other provinces have proposed to promote the construction of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot areas, promote the export of advantageous characteristics with the integrated development of "cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt", expand new space for the development of foreign trade enterprises, and then promote the steady and quality growth of foreign trade.
"Cross-border e-commerce is an important direction and supporting force for the future development of China foreign trade. With the combined efforts of the stock and incremental policies of governments at all levels, and with the extensive domestic and international experience accumulated by foreign trade enterprises over a long period of time, we believe that new drivers of China foreign trade will continue to emerge." Said Wei Hao, deputy dean of the School of Economics and Business Administration at Beijing Normal University.
In 2024, China export scale exceeded 25 trillion yuan for the first time, an increase of 7.1% year-on-year, of which green trade performance is particularly outstanding, leading the world: The export of wind turbines increased by more than 70%, the export of photovoltaic products exceeded 200 billion yuan for four consecutive years, the export of lithium batteries hit a record high, the export value of electric motorcycles and bicycles exceeded 40 billion yuan for the first time, and the export volume of electric vehicles exceeded 2 million for the first time. China green products have not only enriched the global supply, but also made great contributions to the global response to climate change and green and low-carbon transformation.
As the world leading enterprise in the field of wind power gear transmission, Nanjing high-speed Gear Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has a domestic market share of more than 60% and an international market share of more than 30%. At the beginning of the New Year, entering the company final assembly workshop, I saw rows of "big" gears weighing more than 50 tons ready to go. In February, the company is expected to ship nearly 700 gear products.
In line with the "green" development trend of foreign trade, more and more regions will develop green trade as an important direction this year - Guangdong will introduce special policies to support green trade development; Anhui will cultivate a number of service trade, green trade, digital trade leaders; Tianjin proposed to strengthen international cooperation in green, low-carbon and traditional Chinese medicine, make Luban Workshop better and stronger, and deepen exchanges and cooperation with Singapore in green development and other fields; Jiangxi proposed to cultivate new growth points such as service trade, green trade and digital trade, and accelerate the development of new business forms and models such as cross-border e-commerce and bonded maintenance.
With the vigorous development of new business forms and models such as cross-border e-commerce, digital trade and green trade, a steady stream of new driving forces will continue to inject strong impetus into the high-quality development of foreign trade. (Article source: International Business Daily)
