Guiyang takes measures to promote cross-border e-commerce

Guiyang – capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – is taking further measures to promote its cross-border e-commerce, in the wake of its approval as a national cross-border e-commerce pilot city in August 2018.

The city has reportedly been focused on cultivating the sector, in order to build a development system and create a sounding business environment for cross-border e-commerce.

To date, Guiyang has built 70,000 square meters of bonded warehouses and 8,000 sq m of supervised cross-border e-commerce warehouses in the Guiyang Free Trade Zone. It has constructed 5,000 sq m of cold chain logistics warehouses for air transportation, as well as opened a direct logistics railway to Hong Kong.

Guiyang has boosted the popularity of its cross-border e-commerce and stimulated spending with exhibition centers, cross-border e-commerce warehouses, shopping centers and shopping festivals.

It is understood that the city is also supporting local enterprises to expand into international markets, rely on overseas warehouses and sell more products to the world.

Guiyang is reportedly exploring an operation mode for cross-border e-commerce, supporting enterprises to open online and offline shops.

During the first five months of this year, the city's cross-border e-commerce achieved $30.98 million in trading volume. By June, Guiyang's customs had 45 registered cross-border e-commerce enterprises.

Guiyang's goods imported by cross-border e-commerce are mainly mother and baby products, health care products, cosmetics and daily care products. The exported goods are mainly home textiles, digital products, daily necessities, tires, machinery and phosphorus products.

Currently, Guiyang's top three national business partners in the sector are the United States, Southeast Asia and Central Asia.

In the future, plans are for Guiyang to establish gathering and distribution centers for imports and exports. Other plans are to boost the construction of trading systems, optimize its trading structure, as well as to attract more domestic and international resources to expand the overall scale of trading.