On February 8, according to the Chinese government website, the State Council issued a reply on agreeing to set up a cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone in 27 cities and regions including Ordos.
According to the reply, the State Council agreed to be in Ordos City in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Yangzhou City, Zhenjiang City, Taizhou City in Jiangsu Province, Jinhua City and Zhoushan City in Zhejiang Province, Ma'anshan City and Xuancheng City in Anhui Province, Jingdezhen City and Shangrao City in Jiangxi Province, Zibo City and Rizhao City in Shandong Province, Xiangyang City in Hubei Province, Shaoguan City, Shanwei City, Heyuan City, Yangjiang City, Qingyuan City, Chaoyang City, Jieyang City, Yunfu City in Guangdong Province, Nanchong City and Meishan City in Sichuan Province, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, 27 cities and regions, including Baoji City in Shaanxi Province, Kashgar District in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Alashankou City, have set up cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones.
Nandu reporter noted that before the mainland has set up 105 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas in 5 batches, plus 27 new ones, the current number has reached 132. The cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area has basically covered the whole country, and a cluster of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas has been formed in the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and other places.
Among the new batch of approved cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas, Guangdong has added the most, reaching 8, plus the previous 13 cities, 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong Province have achieved full coverage of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas, ranking first in the country. In addition, jiangsu provinces (13) and Zhejiang provinces (11, plus 1 county-level city of Yiwu) are currently fully covered. There are 9 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas in Shandong and 6 in Fujian. This is also the most active area for the development of cross-border e-commerce.
The reply pointed out that it is necessary to copy and promote the mature experience and practices of the first five batches of comprehensive pilot zones, give play to the positive role of cross-border e-commerce in helping the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and promoting the digital development of industries, guide the healthy and sustainable innovative development of cross-border e-commerce, and go all out to stabilize the basic plate of foreign trade and foreign investment, and promote the high-quality development of trade.
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Guangdong added 8 new ones, achieving full coverage of 21 cities in the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area, the total number of which ranked first in the country
Nandu reporter noted that among the 27 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas approved this time, Guangdong added the most, reaching 8, Shaoguan City, Shanwei City, Heyuan City, Yangjiang City, Qingyuan City, Chaozhou City, Jieyang City, Yunfu City, mainly located in northern Guangdong, eastern Guangdong and western Guangdong. Previously, 13 prefecture-level cities in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Dongguan, Shantou, Foshan, Meizhou, Huizhou, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Zhanjiang, Maoming and Zhaoqing have been approved to set up cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zones. This also means that at present, 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong Province have achieved full coverage of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas, ranking first in the country.
As a major foreign trade province, Guangdong's import and export epidemic in 2021 has reached a new high against the trend, and imports and exports have broken the 8 trillion yuan mark for the first time. In addition to the growth of general trade imports and exports, in 2021, Guangdong's cross-border e-commerce and market procurement of the two major foreign trade formats will exceed 300 billion yuan, becoming a new driving force for foreign trade growth.
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Distribution: The Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and other places have formed a cluster of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas
Nandu reporter noted that with the addition of new cities, in addition to Guangdong Province, Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province have also achieved full coverage of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area. This is also the most active area for the development of cross-border e-commerce.
In recent years, the mainland's cross-border e-commerce has grown steadily, far exceeding the growth rate of traditional trade, and has become a new engine for the mainland's import and export trade, an important starting point for coping with the impact of the new crown epidemic and promoting the realization of the goal of "stable foreign trade". Customs statistics show that in 2021, the scale of cross-border e-commerce imports and exports on the mainland will expand rapidly, reaching 1.98 trillion yuan, an increase of 15%.
"In the future, the proportion of cross-border e-commerce in foreign trade will be further increased, and the B2B business of cross-border e-commerce will usher in a stage of rapid development." Hong Yong, an associate researcher at the Institute of E-commerce of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, pointed out in an interview with Nandu reporter that as an important carrier for the development of cross-border e-commerce in the mainland, the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone is an important place for the mainland to innovate and carry out cross-border e-commerce business.
Previously, the mainland has set up 105 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas in 5 batches, plus 27 new ones, and the current number has reached 132. At present, the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area has basically covered the whole country, and a cluster of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas has been formed in the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and other places. The cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area has formed development characteristics according to its own industrial base and resource endowments.
Hong Yong previously analyzed that the newly added cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area coordinated the development of the western region, the rise of the central region, the revitalization of the northeast and the eastern region to take the lead in the development strategy. At the same time, it will also consider how the region can actively integrate into the "Belt and Road" initiative through the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area and carry out the Digital Silk Road business.
Nandu reporter noted that the newly added cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area is located in 12 provinces and regions of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong, Jiangxi, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, mainly in the eastern coastal provinces, especially in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and cities in the Yangtze River Delta region. The cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas in the central and western provinces and important nodes of the "Belt and Road" have also been further increased.
27 new cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones were added.
What is the gold content of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area? Multiple corporate tax breaks
According to the approval of the State Council, the approved cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zone will copy and promote the mature experience and practices of the first five batches of comprehensive pilot zones, give play to the positive role of cross-border e-commerce in helping the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and promoting the digital development of the industry, guide the healthy and sustainable innovation and development of cross-border e-commerce, and go all out to stabilize the basic plate of foreign trade and foreign investment and promote the high-quality development of trade.
Nandu reporter noted that for the development of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of Customs, and the tax department have issued a series of support measures, the most gold content is mainly in four aspects: first, cross-border e-commerce retail export "no ticket tax exemption" policy, export exemption from value-added tax and consumption tax; second, cross-border e-commerce retail export enterprise income tax approval collection policy; third, customs clearance facilitation policy; fourth, relaxation of import supervision.
The reply pointed out that the relevant departments of the State Council should strengthen the coordination and guidance and policy support for the comprehensive pilot zone in accordance with the division of functions, and effectively give play to the demonstration and leading role of the comprehensive pilot zone. In accordance with the principle of encouraging innovation, adhere to the problem-oriented, strengthen coordination and cooperation, focus on exploring and innovating in the technical standards, business processes, regulatory models and information construction related to the cross-border e-commerce enterprise-to-business (B2B) approach, and study and introduce more support measures to create a good environment for the development of the comprehensive pilot zone and better promote and standardize the development and growth of the cross-border e-commerce industry.
It is necessary to further improve the cross-border e-commerce statistical system, implement support policies such as exempting cross-border e-commerce retail export goods from value-added tax and consumption tax in accordance with regulations in the comprehensive pilot zone, enterprises can choose to approve the collection of enterprise income tax, and automatically apply the cross-border e-commerce retail import pilot policy to the cities (regions) where the local customs confirms that they meet the regulatory requirements, and support enterprises to jointly build and share overseas warehouses.
Nandu trainee reporter Chen Qiuyuan was sent from Beijing