At present, the demand of Chinese consumers has undergone tremendous changes, from "able to buy" to "buying good quality", which also marks an epoch of whole industrial chain competition for the importing cross-border e-commerce, transfers from creating top-selling single product to providing a full range of excellent service, and puts forward higher requirements on all parts of goods procurement, customs clearance, logistics, sales service, etc. The China International Import Expo is a valuable opportunity to strengthen economic and trade exchange and cooperation, drive consumption growth and promote cross-border e-commerce development, both for Shanghai and Yangpu.
On July 19th, the 2019 Shanghai Cross-Border E-Commerce Association CEO Closed Conference & China International Import Expo (Shanghai Trading Group) Cross-border E-commerce Summit Conference was convened. More than 500 association member company representatives and cross-border e-commerce industrial elites gathered in Yangpu, to discuss the future development of cross-border e-commerce. At the conference, "The Belt and Road" Cross-border E-commerce Trade Alliance was unveiled.
It is reported that as one of the earliest Chinese cities launching cross-border e-commerce pilot, Shanghai's cross-border e-commerce industry has witnessed steady growth, positive, compliant and sound development trend as a whole. According to statistics of the public service platform, in 2018, Shanghai handled 23.56 million transaction orders, with the transaction amount of nearly RMB 4.9 billion, a YOY increase of 38% and 16% respectively. In 2019, despite the impact of global trade frictions, the overall scenario tends to be stable and optimistic, and Shanghai's port cross-border e-commerce import and export business continuously maintains double-digit growth. From January to June this year, the number of retail import and export declarations of cross-border e-commerce with public service platform as the channel stood at 14,887,000, and the transaction amount reached RMB 2.88 billion, a YOY increase of 53.1% and 34% respectively.
During the keynote speeches, relevant leaders from government departments, experts from financial, logistics and other institutions, as well as cross-border e-commerce entrepreneurs delivered speeches regarding China International Import Expo, operator environment optimization, trade and customs clearance facilitation, cross-border e-commerce compliance development, etc. During the round table forum, discussions were held around six topics, such as "Empower SMEs to Participate in Cross-border E-Commerce", "How Brands Enter the Cross-border Trade Market" and "Core Logic for Unbounded Retail of Cross-border E-Commerce", while elaborating on the hot spots, difficulties, pain points and other problems confronted by the cross-border e-commerce industry.