In 2016, the total trade volume between China and countries along the route was 953.6 billion US dollars.
Source of data: National Information Center "Belt and Road" Big Data Center, Hanwen Information, and Ali Research Institute. Coordinator of this issue: Wu Yan Cartography: Zhang Fangman
The photo shows the COSCO Netherlands, a subsidiary of China Ocean Shipping Group, passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Dingzhen photo
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Chairman of the Supreme Leader pointed out, "‘ Belt and Road ’ What we are pursuing is the great profits of a hundred flowers, not the small profits that stand out from the crowd. " Over the past three years, China and countries along the route have exchanged needed goods, complemented each other’s advantages, shared opportunities and met challenges together. The mutually beneficial cooperative ties have become tighter and tighter, and a win-win partnership network is being woven. Against the background of insufficient momentum of world economic growth, the progress of economic cooperation under the "Belt and Road Initiative" is undoubtedly a rare bright color.
Through the long yellow sand and the rolling blue waves, the blueprint nodes are turning into prosperous business centers, criss-crossing the ancient Eurasia. In the construction of the "Belt and Road", trade cooperation has achieved fruitful results. In 2016, the total trade volume between China and countries along the route was 953.6 billion US dollars, accounting for 25.7% of China’s trade volume with the world.
It is worth mentioning that the new format economy represented by Internet companies is also actively laying out and going to sea side by side. Cross-border e-commerce has ushered in explosive growth and has become a new kinetic energy that cannot be ignored in driving trade development.
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Moscow, Russia
90% of foreign postal parcels come from China.
Behind the "Communist Youth League Station" of Moscow subway and between the two major passenger stations, there is a conspicuous orange board house. This is the first physical exhibition hall of Alibaba AliExpress Russia.
Entering the exhibition hall, there are many products made in China, such as "free soldier" outdoor products and Xiaomi mobile phones, in the small space. Alena, a shop assistant, told the reporter that there are endless customers every day. After the manufacturer has reached an agreement with AliExpress, the products can be displayed here, and customers can log in to the online shop of AliExpress by scanning the QR code next to it. "The arrival time of the order has been controlled within 15 days. If it is from a local warehouse ‘ Mall ’ Delivery, then it takes up to 5 days. "
According to the survey report of Russian Electronic Commerce Association and Russian Post Office, in 2016, the sales of online stores in China accounted for 52% of the total cross-border online trade in Russia, and 90% of foreign postal parcels in Russia came from China. According to the data of Therns Market Research Company in January 2017, the AliExpress platform has 22.2 million users.
In addition to the increase in figures, AliExpress’s business has also undergone qualitative changes in two years. Today’s AliExpress website is exquisite and atmospheric, and the product name of the machine that makes consumers laugh and cry is no longer seen. It has become history to wait 60 days after placing an order to receive the goods. The "shopping mall" model with guaranteed quality, delivery speed and after-sales service has also become more and more perfect.
In the spring of 2015, when the reporter interviewed Mark Zavadski, the business development director of AliExpress Russia and CIS, he was still a "army of one". One person was responsible for conducting business in Russia, and other personnel responsible for maintaining AliExpress Russian website were all in Hangzhou. Two years later, AliExpress has a large-scale company and two physical exhibition halls in Moscow.
This spring, AliExpress is even more active in Russia. Alipay is about to land in China, appearing in duty-free shops and other places where tourists from are crowded. The goods of domestic sellers in 20 Russian big cities will soon be delivered the next day. There are also articles on the internet that teach people to use Taobao to rebate. Zavadski said: "E-commerce has the opportunity to replicate the glory of China in Russia, and may even achieve more achievements."
At Zavadski’s insistence, Russian local manufacturers and sellers have joined AliExpress. At present, the transaction volume of local merchants has accounted for 5%, and this year, they will jointly launch fans’ clothing with Spartak Football Club.
AliExpress has set up the "AliExpress Silk Road" group on VK, Russia’s largest social networking site, with the slogan "Bring the best goods like thousands of years ago". The rapid development of AliExpress has impacted and changed the local postal, financial and e-commerce systems.
According to statistics, in 2016, the scale of cross-border e-commerce transactions in China reached 6.3 trillion yuan. In addition to traditional hot countries, goods from countries along the "Belt and Road" are gradually becoming popular targets of Chinese consumers. Among the users of AliExpress, the proportion of users in countries along the "Belt and Road" exceeded 45%.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Build a bridge for SMEs’ exports
In Dubai, the local office of Dalong. com is a bit crowded. More and more local retail store owners come to the door to buy Chinese-made mobile power supplies. "The shape is small and light, the capacitance is not small, and the price is not high. It is very good to sell." A local shopkeeper gave a favorable comment on these mobile power supplies.
"China’s mobile power supply is delivered directly to our store, eliminating the middleman and reducing the price. Moreover, we can get the goods directly, not look at the picture and place an order. " Another shopkeeper said that China products directly enter the store, which makes people feel "safe".
Small enterprises that make mobile power supplies can export and deliver them to your door. Why? To talk about this, we have to talk about Chongqing Dalong. com, which specializes in matchmaking for small and medium-sized enterprises and helps them go abroad. Now, many products of small and medium-sized enterprises have been exported to many countries, making local people fall in love with China goods.
"Let China make a step across the border. This is our goal." Zhu Fuxing, vice president of Dalong.com, said that Dalong.com integrates the global resources of the Belt and Road Initiative. First, Dalong. com integrates overseas retail space to provide domestic enterprises with overseas trial sales opportunities; On the other hand, Dalong. com integrates and organizes the supply of domestic small and medium-sized enterprises to build a bridge for their exports.
Because most small and medium-sized enterprises do not have the right to export, Dalong. com has built a "channel connection" to provide them with one-stop services such as payment recovery and export tax rebate. The financial person in charge of Dalong.com said: "Now the export orders of small and medium-sized enterprises have surged, and it is definitely impossible to use the traditional export tax rebate declaration method. Now we use the cross-border e-commerce online tax refund system of Chongqing State Taxation Bureau. We fill in the report online and automatically complete the comparison with the customs electronic port information. The whole process can be compressed to less than 7 days, and the cost is further reduced. "
"In this way, we have solved the obstacles such as high cross-border procurement costs and excessive capital consumption of four types of overseas small and medium-sized offline retailers, online Internet providers, small and medium-sized wholesalers and professional buyers, and can realize the effective docking of China’s high-quality production capacity and overseas demand." Zhu Fuxing said.
"Just give it a try for the first time, I didn’t expect the effect to be quite good. In the future, we will also serve the Dubai market in a targeted manner. " The relevant person in charge of Chongqing Yunzhong Technology Co., Ltd., which produces mobile power, introduced.
At present, more than 30,000 small and medium-sized enterprises have begun to "go global" like Yunzhong Technology, among which more than 5,000 enterprises’ products have entered overseas markets. The LED lamps of an enterprise in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province have been sold in batches in Vietnam and other countries, and the sales volume has been rising. Inflators, wire brushes and adjustable wrenches produced in Qingdao, Shandong Province are well received in the UAE. Wedding products from Suzhou, Jiangsu, such as wedding gloves, embroidered skirts and flower baskets, are very popular in Canada, and some categories are sold out … …
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sir robert giffen
The "New Silk Road" was connected by the "net"
Zhili Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, this "China International Children’s Wear Capital" has nearly 10,000 children’s wear enterprises, and children’s wear sales have accounted for nearly half of the country.
On the morning of May 8, when the reporter came to a children’s wear enterprise named Buyi Caoren in the town, I saw that the workers were rushing to produce a batch of new children’s wear, and the target customer was Italy thousands of miles away.
"Through cross-border electronic commerce, we put children’s clothes along ‘ Belt and Road ’ Sold to Europe and Southeast Asia. " Ma Weizhong, the person in charge of the company, told the reporter that the cross-border e-commerce sales of Buyi Caoren are currently 1,500 US dollars per day, and the products are exported to more than 10 countries and regions.
In 2015, Ma Weizhong began to think about how to open up international sales channels through the "cloud market" of e-commerce. However, he can speak less than 10 sentences of English, and he wants to understand that the international market is not only "speechless" but also "road-blind". "Later, I found that I don’t have to worry. The city has built a series of cross-border e-commerce service platforms, which provide a lot of valuable information and carry out relevant training according to the needs of enterprises." In October 2015, Buyi Caoren was launched on Amazon, and 200 sets of children’s clothes were exported in less than a week.
"I referred to the supply and demand information of major platforms and analyzed ‘ Belt and Road ’ Designing products based on market conditions in different countries has achieved good results. " Ma Weizhong told reporters that the government departments also helped to take the lead in coordinating and solving the problem of cross-border settlement of enterprises. "Originally, the handling fee was higher through third-party enterprises, but now the channels of professional financial institutions have been opened, and the single settlement only charges 40 dollars regardless of the amount."
In recent years, Wuxing District of Huzhou City has built the first county-level international e-commerce application platform in China — — Xing Wu international e-commerce application platform, and set up all the way import and export Co., Ltd., specializing in serving the export of small and medium-sized children’s wear enterprises. Jiao Chenkang, a staff member of the Wuxing District Bureau of Commerce, said that at present, there are more than 100 cross-border e-commerce enterprises cultivated through various platforms in the district, 80% of which are children’s wear enterprises, and the monthly export volume exceeds 10 million yuan.
“‘ Belt and Road ’ Construction has opened up new ideas for enterprises in our traditional industries. " Ma Weizhong said that he hoped that in the future, the service platform could build a large database of cross-border e-commerce and launch more accurate support policies based on data analysis.