"We sincerely hope to work with friends from all walks of life to make Jiangxi's cross-border e-commerce industry bigger and stronger. We welcome companies present here to deploy functional institutions such as regional headquarters bases, display centers, and sales centers to Jiangxi to provide strong momentum for the development of cross-border e-commerce." On the morning of July 26, at the 2024 Jiangxi Cross-Border E-Commerce Development Conference held in Ganzhou, the "Southern Gate of Jiangxi Province", You Wang Ying, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Department of Commerce of Jiangxi Province (joint efforts, read yíng) publicly issued a sincere invitation.

The opening ceremony of the 2024 Jiangxi Cross-Border E-Commerce Development Conference. Pictures/Pictures in this article are provided by the organizer

The above-mentioned conference activities were hosted by the Jiangxi Province Department of Commerce and the Ganzhou City People's Government, and hosted by the Ganzhou City Bureau of Commerce and the Nankang District People's Government. During the event, the organizers arranged theme forums, special forums, roundtable forums and other contents. More than 300 Chinese and foreign political and business people, experts and scholars gathered in Nankang Home Furnishing Town to discuss the new era, new opportunities and new cooperation in the development of the cross-border e-commerce industry.

At the opening ceremony of the conference, Yu Wang Ying promoted the development environment of cross-border e-commerce in Jiangxi under the title of "New Dynamics of Cross-border E-commerce". He introduced that in recent years, Jiangxi has actively transformed its location advantage of "extending in all directions" into an economic development driving force of "having both sides". In the first half of this year, the province's GDP increased by 4.5%, the added value of industries above designated size increased by 8.8%, and the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 4.9%, the province's economy continued to pick up and improve, providing rich soil for the development of cross-border e-commerce.

You Wang Ying, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Department of Commerce of Jiangxi Province, made a recommendation on the development environment of cross-border e-commerce in Jiangxi.

You Wang Ying said that Jiangxi is focusing on the goal of "being the first, being brave, and doing good" and striving to create a new highland for the development of the digital economy in the central region."We will accelerate the construction of the 'two platforms and six systems' in the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zone, Continuously enrich and enhance the connotation of platform construction. Vigorously promote the coordinated development of various cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zones in the province and improve the level of agglomeration and large-scale development of the cross-border e-commerce industry."

"We sincerely hope to work with friends from all walks of life to make Jiangxi's cross-border e-commerce industry bigger and stronger. We welcome companies present here to deploy functional institutions such as regional headquarters bases, display centers, and sales centers to Jiangxi to provide strong momentum for the development of cross-border e-commerce." Yu Wang Ying also said that Jiangxi will combine local advantageous and characteristic industries and resource endowments to promote the coordinated development of "cross-border e-commerce + industrial belts", cultivate regional export brands, and allow more high-quality Jiangxi products and services to enter the world stage.

Li Kejian, Deputy Secretary of the Ganzhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, delivered a speech.

Li Kejian, deputy secretary of the Ganzhou Municipal Party Committee and mayor, said in his speech that cross-border e-commerce is an important engine for promoting high-quality development of foreign trade and promoting new productive forces. Over the years, Ganzhou City has attached great importance to the development of cross-border e-commerce. In December 2019, it was successfully approved as a national cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone. In May 2020, it opened the first cross-border e-commerce business and the first train. In July of the same year, it became the province's first comprehensive pilot zone to open full-format cross-border e-commerce business.

"After years of hard work, Ganzhou's cross-border e-commerce has developed vigorously. In the past four years, the import business volume of 1210 (cross-border e-commerce bonded) has exploded exponentially, exceeding 10 million units in 2023. In particular, the gathering of various platforms is accelerating. The city has 3 national-level economic development zones, 1 national-level High-tech Zone, and 2 customs inspection and quarantine agencies. Ganzhou International Dry Port, Comprehensive Insurance Zone, Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Test Zone, Import Trade Promotion Innovation Demonstration Zone 'The integration of four zones' is accelerating." Li Kejian introduced that cross-border logistics is efficient and smooth. Ganzhou has opened five rail-sea intermodal "Santong" train lines, operating a total of more than 1500 China-Europe-Asia trains, reaching 151 cities in 27 countries.

Li Kejian also mentioned that Ganzhou has seized the development opportunities of cross-border e-commerce and actively explored the "new blue ocean" of foreign trade. In the first half of this year, the city's total import and export volume was 47.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.4%, ranking first in the province in terms of total volume and growth rate.

He Shanjin, member of the Standing Committee of the Ganzhou Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Nankang District Party Committee, promoted the experience of cross-border e-commerce enabling industrial belts.

Nankang is the capital of solid wood furniture in China and the hometown of thousand-year-old carpenters. When promoting the experience of cross-border e-commerce enabling industrial belts, He Shanjin, member of the Standing Committee of the Ganzhou Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Nankang District Party Committee, said that in recent years, Nankang has insisted on cross-border e-commerce as an important breakthrough in the transformation and upgrading of the furniture industry, and has actively embraced cross-border e-commerce. A new blue ocean, layout a new track, and accelerate the integrated development of "cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt". In 2023, the import and export volume of cross-border trade goods will exceed 45 million, driving foreign trade to exceed 10 billion yuan for two consecutive years and promoting the furniture industry cluster to exceed 270 billion yuan. Nankang is becoming a rapidly rising "e-commerce mall" and an "important choice" for cross-border e-commerce. It has huge development potential and contains unlimited business opportunities.

He Shanjin also revealed that in the next step, Nankang will make every effort to promote cross-border e-commerce to empower the furniture industry, accelerate the construction of the furniture industry into a world-class furniture industry cluster, and accelerate the construction of Nankang into a cross-border e-commerce goods gathering center in South China and a China-Europe freight collection center, import and export cargo distribution center, and international trade service center, so that Nankang furniture can be found wherever the world has a home.

Zhang Dawei, member of the Senior Expert Advisory Committee of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, delivered a keynote speech.

During the guest keynote speech session, Zhang Dawei, a member of the Senior Expert Advisory Committee of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, believed that China's cross-border e-commerce industry is currently facing two major issues: insufficient supply-side innovation motivation and whether the market side can achieve stable integration with international economic and trade rules. The most prominent contradictions and problems. Therefore, he suggested that China's cross-border e-commerce industry should start from several aspects: enhancing endogenous power, building a modern industrial system, enhancing innovation, optimizing the cross-border e-commerce development environment, matching major domestic strategies, and improving the layout of the cross-border e-commerce industry., so that China's cross-border e-commerce industry can get rid of its barbaric growth and truly become one of the representative industries for the development of new productive forces.

Wang Xin, president of the Shenzhen Cross-Border E-Commerce Association, believes that China's cross-border e-commerce industry has become a powerful booster for the high-quality development of China's industries. She said that China's cross-border e-commerce industry has developed from a new foreign trade format to a new normal, becoming a new industry integrating high-tech, Internet, finance and other fields. "The cross-border e-commerce industry is not only an important driving force of economic globalization, but also the only way for China to transform from 'manufacturing' to 'quality (intelligent) manufacturing'."

Corner of the comprehensive image display area of the district-divided city.

In addition, this conference also established a comprehensive image display area for 11 district-based cities in Jiangxi and Ganjiang New Area to promote and display the economic and social development achievements, characteristic advantageous industries, and cross-border e-commerce development advantages of various regions through text, pictures and videos on display boards. A good business environment attracts participating merchants to conduct docking negotiations.