Shandong: Strive to create 20 cross-border e-commerce characteristic industrial belts in the province by 2025

Reporter Fan JiaOn July 24th, the Shandong Provincial Government website released the "Action Plan for the Leap Development of Cross border E-commerce in Shandong Province (2023-2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"), aiming to create 20 cross-border e-commerce characteristic industrial belts, cultivate 100 well-known cross-border e-commerce brands with strong international competitiveness, incubate 1000 emerging cross-border e-commerce enterprises, achieve cross-border e-commerce industry clustering, brand clustering, and efficient service by 2025 Ecological prosperity, promoting stable scale and optimized structure of foreign trade.The Action Plan lists eleven key work tasks:Innovate and enhance the "cross-border e-commerce+industrial belt" model

Reporter Fan Jia

On July 24th, the Shandong Provincial Government website released the "Action Plan for the Leap Development of Cross border E-commerce in Shandong Province (2023-2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"), aiming to create 20 cross-border e-commerce characteristic industrial belts, cultivate 100 well-known cross-border e-commerce brands with strong international competitiveness, incubate 1000 emerging cross-border e-commerce enterprises, achieve cross-border e-commerce industry clustering, brand clustering, and efficient service by 2025 Ecological prosperity, promoting stable scale and optimized structure of foreign trade.

The Action Plan lists eleven key work tasks:

Innovate and enhance the "cross-border e-commerce+industrial belt" model.Focusing on characteristic industries such as modern light industry and textiles, new energy and new materials, smart home appliances, and automotive equipment, we will carry out the "Cross border E-commerce+Industrial Belt" cultivation project, strengthen guidance and support in the cultivation of leading enterprises in the industrial belt, the construction of cross-border e-commerce parks, the improvement of supply chain systems, enterprise incubation, and talent cultivation, enhance the agglomeration of cross-border e-commerce industries and public service capabilities, and accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of traditional industries. Encourage cities with conditions to build cross-border e-commerce supply chain collaboration platforms for characteristic industries, achieve business collaboration in all aspects of the entire industry chain, such as raw material procurement, research and development design, production and manufacturing, and marketing promotion, and drive traditional manufacturing enterprises to "go overseas".

Support cross-border e-commerce enterprises to grow and strengthen.Promote well-known cross-border e-commerce platforms, sellers, independent stations, service providers, MCN institutions (live streaming brokerage companies) and other entities to establish headquarters, regional headquarters, operation centers, and collection centers in Shandong. Strengthen the cultivation of provincial-level cross-border e-commerce entities, and provide policy support to entities with obvious development results and strong demonstration and driving effects. Guide "specialized, refined, and innovative" enterprises to use cross-border e-commerce to "go global", and support eligible cross-border e-commerce enterprises to apply for national high-tech enterprises or technologically advanced service enterprises. Support cross-border e-commerce enterprises, research institutions, and industry associations to participate in the formulation of international, national, industry, local, and group standards for cross-border e-commerce industrial parks, incubators, public overseas warehouses, and other fields. Increase the incubation efforts of cross-border e-commerce enterprises, and support enterprises to conduct training through pilot units of cross-border e-commerce incubation institutions.

Cultivate well-known cross-border e-commerce brands.Support cross-border e-commerce enterprises to carry out overseas trademark registration and international certification, and encourage eligible enterprises to acquire well-known foreign brands. Support enterprises to comprehensively utilize multiple channels such as platform drainage, search engines, social media, and cross-border live streaming for global brand promotion, vigorously carry out cross-border e-commerce export live streaming and digital marketing business, and enhance brand exposure and awareness. Support traditional production enterprises, foreign trade enterprises, and commercial enterprises to build independent overseas stations, accelerate the gathering of independent station resources throughout the industry chain, provide one-stop station building, marketing, logistics, warehousing, and other services for enterprises, and seize private domain traffic resources to explore the international market. Encourage "Shinise" and other special commodities to explore sea access by using cross-border e-commerce model.

Innovative cross-border e-commerce financial support.Encourage various financial institutions to use blockchain, Big data and other information technology innovation products to explore and develop "Sinosure+Guarantee" and new financing services such as freight, inventory, warehouse receipt and order. Give full play to export credit insurance policies such as overseas investment insurance and export buyer credit insurance, and strengthen support for overseas warehouse construction and cross-border logistics enterprises. Support banks to provide one-stop foreign exchange settlement and related fund receipt and payment services for cross-border e-commerce enterprises based on transaction electronic information, while meeting conditions such as customer identification, transaction electronic information collection, and authenticity verification. Encourage the use of RMB for pricing and settlement within the permitted scope of policies.

Improve the construction and operation level of overseas warehouses. Encourage enterprises to build public overseas warehouses in countries and regions along the "the Belt and Road", RCEP member countries, "SCO" countries and emerging market countries through self construction or leasing, and integrate and improve the service level of public overseas warehouses in European and American countries. Support overseas warehouse enterprises in developing intelligent warehousing software and technology, and improve their level of informatization and intelligence. Make good use of the comprehensive service platform for overseas warehouses in Shandong Province, and encourage overseas warehouses to focus on characteristic industrial clusters and provide precise services. Encourage public overseas warehouse enterprises to establish overseas operation centers and brand product display centers, and support the development of new marketing models such as remote proxy exhibitions, "pre exhibition and post warehouse", and "exhibition warehouse broadcasting integration".

Build a professional and efficient cross-border logistics system.Vigorously cultivate maritime route groups of countries and regions along the "the Belt and Road" and RCEP member countries, and continue to support domestic and foreign liner companies to arrange direct ocean routes to Europe and the United States. Support enterprises to open cross-border e-commerce full freight charter business. Make good use of the "four port linkage" international multimodal transportation model between China and South Korea, and create a global aviation "3C" electrified goods export channel through Incheon in Shandong. Expand the pilot scope of exploring the "one unit system" for international multimodal transportation. Regularly operate cross-border e-commerce characteristic trains and provide customized train services to meet customers' diverse transportation needs.

Optimize the cultivation of cross-border e-commerce talents.Focusing on Digital transformation, artificial intelligence, cross-border live broadcast, independent station construction, etc., we organized online and offline integrated training. Accelerate the introduction of high-level cross-border e-commerce talents and provide policy support in areas such as housing, medical treatment, and children's enrollment. Hold a cross-border e-commerce competition in Shandong Province to cultivate cross-border e-commerce operation teams and practical talents. Encourage universities within the province to offer cross-border e-commerce related majors. Support universities, cross-border e-commerce industry belts, and industrial parks to jointly establish the "Cross border E-commerce Industry College" and carry out order based talent cultivation. Support social training institutions to conduct cross-border e-commerce skills training.

Expand cross-border e-commerce retail imports.Taking advantage of its proximity to Japan and South Korea, encouraging enterprises to build domestic logistics infrastructure such as cross-border e-commerce import mother warehouses and global central warehouses in customs special supervision areas, and expanding cross-border e-commerce imports of characteristic products from Japan and South Korea. Explore innovation in cross-border e-commerce retail import formats, support the construction of cross-border e-commerce live streaming bases, and develop new retail models such as "bonded warehouses+live streaming" and "experience stores+live streaming". Strive to pilot cross-border e-commerce retail of imported drugs and medical devices.

Improve the level of trade facilitation.By organically integrating with the "single window" of international trade, we aim to enhance the intelligent level of comprehensive cross-border e-commerce services. Under the requirements of customs data security management, we have a cross-border e-commerce full business model customs declaration channel, achieving automatic processing of enterprise electronic documents throughout the entire process. Support the development of cross-border e-commerce export customs transfer business, and achieve the full process supervision operation of local customs clearance, customs transfer transportation, and port exit. Optimize the customs clearance mode of "list verification and release, simplified declaration, and summary statistics". Facilitate cross-border e-commerce returns and support the "packaging" transportation of exported goods and returned re exported goods overseas.

Implement cross-border e-commerce tax policies.Compile and print a compilation of tax policy guidelines for cross-border e-commerce exports, guide enterprises to make good use of value-added tax and consumption tax exemption policies for cross-border e-commerce retail exports, and conduct a trial implementation of enterprise income tax collection for cross-border e-commerce retail export enterprises in the comprehensive pilot zone in accordance with policy provisions. Continuously implement the value-added tax policy for cross-border e-commerce B2B exports, and improve the convenience level of cross-border e-commerce B2B exports and cross-border e-commerce overseas warehouse model tax refunds. Implement tax policies for export returned goods, and exempt eligible returned goods from import tariffs, import value-added tax, and consumption tax.

Strengthen cross-border e-commerce domestic and international exchanges.Hold Shandong Cross border E-commerce Ecological Conference, China (Shandong) Cross border E-commerce Trading Expo, Yellow River Basin Cross border E-commerce Expo, etc., and build a cross-border e-commerce investment cooperation and exchange platform. Support cross-border e-commerce enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions and special docking activities. Carry out cross-border e-commerce foreign aid training activities for the "the Belt and Road" countries. Encourage provincial and foreign universities to jointly establish cross-border e-commerce joint laboratories or research centers, and strengthen coordination and interaction with relevant organizations from other countries in rulemaking, standard construction, and other aspects.

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