At present, global digital trade is booming and has become a new highlight of international trade. In recent years, China has actively docked high-standard international economic and trade rules, established a sound digital trade governance system, promoted the reform and innovative development of digital trade, and continuously provided new opportunities for the world with China’s new development. Nowadays, the booming digital trade is becoming an important force for China to shape a new advantage in development.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to digital trade, put forward the development of digital trade, accelerate the construction of a strong trade country, create digital trade demonstration zones, and promote the reform and innovative development of digital trade.
The “14th Five-Year Plan” for the development of trade in services for the first time will be “digital trade” included in a series of major policy initiatives to promote the development of China’s digital trade accelerated into the fast lane.
In the e-commerce industrial park, enterprise staff put barcodes on the goods to be sent overseas. No address, no recipient information, a bar code, the goods can be completed from the seller to the buyer’s “travel”.
Behind the barcode is a whole set of digital technology to build up a “fully managed” cross-border e-commerce operation mode. Enterprises are only responsible for timely supply, and operation, logistics, after-sales and other aspects are handed over to the cross-border e-commerce platform.
As an important part of digital trade, China’s cross-border e-commerce development scale and growth rate has ranked among the world’s forefront, cross-border e-commerce accounted for the proportion of China’s import and export of trade in goods grew from 1% in 2015 to 5% in 2022.
The more than 2,000 overseas warehouses distributed in different regions of the world and the cross-border e-commerce trading partners covering the whole world have made China one of the most complete countries in the global cross-border e-commerce ecosystem.
Breaking the time and space attributes of traditional trade, digital trade is becoming a new driving force for China to “link the world”. Digital content, digital technology, digital services and other new business forms are flourishing. The ecology of “cloud economy” such as “cloud exhibition” and “cloud office” is gradually taking shape, and domestic online novels, online games and other digital products are popular overseas.
(Source: CCTV News Client)
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