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# China’s cross-border e-commerce trade sees 80% growth in 2017
- URL: https://www.alwihdainfo.com/china-s-cross-border-e-commerce-trade-sees-80-growth-in-2017-a62288/
- Published: 2018-03-18T19:23:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-02T14:34:12.000Z
- Description: Figures from local customs show the city, located at a key point on the Silk Road Economic Belt, exported 562,400 items purchased through cross-border e-commerce in 2017, with a commodity value of nearly $3.88 million.
- Author: peoplesdaily
- Tags: English News, #Import 2026-04-02 14:32

By Liu Lingling from People’s Daily

![Staff prepares freight destined for offshore customers at a warehouse of Shanghai Customs Supervision Center. (Photo from the official website of the first Global Cross-Border E-Commerce Conference)](https://www.alwihdainfo.com/photo/art/grande/20943180-24191956.jpg?v=1521398310 "Staff prepares freight destined for offshore customers at a warehouse of Shanghai Customs Supervision Center. (Photo from the official website of the first Global Cross-Border E-Commerce Conference)")

Cross-border e-commerce is booming in China as trade figures show it surged 80.6% in 2017 from a year earlier to 90.24 billion yuan ($14.32 billion).  
  
The growth rate has been over 50% for three consecutive years, show statistics from China Customs.  
  
With China's online retail market growing at breakneck speed, a new group of shopping platforms, represented by Xiaohongshu and Kaola, are gaining more followers with innovative business models, Japan’s business-oriented newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun said in a recent article.  
  
Statistics show that the annual value of China’s e-commerce market stood at 5.5 trillion yuan ($868.5 billion) in 2017, up 28% over the previous year. About 10% of the volume came from offshore products.  
  
Experts say the Belt and Road Initiative has injected strong momentum in cross-border e-commerce.  
  
Urumqi, capital city of northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, expanded its export by seizing opportunities brought by China-Europe freight trains.  
  
Figures from local customs show the city, located at a key point on the Silk Road Economic Belt, exported 562,400 items purchased through cross-border e-commerce in 2017, with a commodity value of nearly $3.88 million.  
  
As a new business model, cross-border e-commerce has also brought huge challenges to customs supervision. To cope with the increased volume of trade, China has explored innovative ways to help the industry develop in a well-regulated manner.  
  
China’s General Administration of Customs, in 2014, introduced a new customs supervision code to standardize management of cross-border e-commerce, following a pilot program initiated in some cities in 2012.  
  
In 2016, the country implemented the supervision and service systems to more places and the whole industry was brought on to a fast track.  
  
A framework of standards was formulated by global customs organizations at the first Global Cross-Border E-Commerce Conference in Beijing this February.  
  
The framework, initiated by China’s General Administration of Customs, serves as a guide for the world to regulate and serve the cross-border e-commerce, sharing Chinese experience to help the sustainable development of the industry.