Xiamen's cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone leads nationwide

Xiamen's cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone was ranked in the first tier nationwide, according to the assessment of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones in 2021 by the Ministry of Commerce recently.

The assessment mainly focused on over 40 indicators such as the implementation of the establishment of a working mechanism, the implementation of facilitation policies, annual import and export volume, annual export growth rate, and the number of high-tech enterprises and overseas warehouses among 105 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones across the country.

Xiamen's cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone is also the only one of the six comprehensive pilot zones in Fujian province (Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Putian, Zhangzhou, and Longyan) that was rated in the first tier.

After being approved for establishing a cross-border e-commerce comprehensive zone in 2018, Xiamen has been bolstering its efforts to build itself into one with local industrial characteristics, online and offline channels, and sustainable development.

In recent years, Xiamen has attracted e-commerce giant platforms such as Amazon, JD, Alibaba, and Shopee, to serve nearly 10,000 cross-border e-commerce enterprises in the province, which has boosted the trade of traditional industries like shoes and clothes, bags, toys, hardware and electrical to go overseas, and empowered the development of emerging industries like optoelectronics, consumer electronics, kitchen and bathroom equipment, and sports and outdoor products.

By the end of 2021, Xiamen had over 4,000 Xiamen local cross-border e-commerce enterprises.

Statistics show that in 2021, the city reported a total foreign trade of 887.65 billion yuan ($140.64 billion), hitting a record high and accounting for 44.3 percent of Fujian's total amount.