Cross-border trade and gradually into the "E era"

From the Russian city of Irkutsk, Kirilov was a frequent visitor Beijing Xiushui Street clothing wholesale market, but in recent years he has ceased to play the "fly" to ply the two city, but "curtilage" in the home through Taobao buy Chinese clothing. He says to the reporter, online shopping that he saves a lot of money for the ticket, also let him feel the progress of the times.
In the early 90 century, Russia once a scarcity of goods, China and one of the biggest neighboring countries "profiteers" trade "charter" trade "barter trade", be in fashion in one's time. But now, with the development of electronic commerce in the global popularization and standardization development of Sino-Russian trade, cross-border trade between the two countries has entered the "E era", created a new order, from the reform of logistics to the means of payment.
In 15 days of held 2013 haqiahui Sino-Russian cross-border trade electronic business forum, vice governor of Heilongjiang province Sun Yao said, with the rapid development of the Internet, the electronic business model has become the important way of economic and trade globalization of economy and information trend of cross-border electronic commerce, the band has become a new "blow-up" fields in the world electronic commerce, cross-border trade between China and Russia by the traditional way to the digital forward time.
In China's largest e-commerce trading platform, taobao.com, Russians shopping amount of explosive growth, become a microcosm of the development of electronic commerce. According to the data provided by the taobao.com, $1500000 to $2000000 of goods sent to Russia in February of this year the net every day, to May shipments have doubled, now every day to Russia of goods reached US $4000000.
The latest data released by the Russian Federal post office, about 80000000000 rubles to buy foreign website goods spending in 2012 Russian consumers (about 15800000000 yuan), average spending of 2700 rubles. The same year, the Russian postal express mail, parcel and the number of inbound packets of 30000000, growth of 50%, from the China inbound mail volume grew rapidly, accounting for the Russian post international mail ratio from 8% to 17%.
Analytic personage points out, with Russia's economic development, continue to strengthen efforts to rectify market order, especially to crack down on the "gray customs clearance", the form of trade between the two countries is not standardized shrinking, at the same time the two countries have strong trade cooperation demand continues to hasten the birth of a new form of trade, electronic commerce form of online shopping platform to emerge as the times require, e-mail and other Internet communication tool based on bilateral cross-border trade, and rapidly flourish.
Ling Yun, President of Hangzhou Electronic Commerce Research Institute said, the electronic commerce has many advantages compared with traditional methods, including both convenient communication, save transaction cost, can provide more choices for consumers and personalized service.
Hangzhou currently has more than 20 stores and more than 1300 electronic commerce website cluster, the e-commerce transaction volume accounted for nearly 2/3 of the whole China, including Taobao represented by a large number of sites began to promote the trade to Russia to provide cross-border, types of goods including clothing, electronic products, daily necessities and so on, some enterprises also opened a Russian website, Search Engine Submission Web site to Russia, to provide more convenient service for the Russian enterprises.
As a new thing in recent years fast development, Sino-Russian cross-border electronic commerce is also facing the cargo clearance, inspection and quarantine, logistics and payment bottleneck. Some enterprises have begun to break the bottleneck. China well-known business platform Alibaba in 2012 June with the electronic payment company Qiwi Wallet signed a strategic cooperation agreement, the Russian buyers can recharge to your Qiwi Wallet account, then to Alibaba's aliexpress platform to purchase goods, pay a success after selling the home to be able to deliver.
Chinese government departments also actively action. In 2012, the city of Harbin economic and Technological Development Zone was approved as the first batch of 34 national e-commerce demonstration base of the Ministry of Commerce, launched the "Heilongjiang international e-commerce application platform", to the international market for enterprises to provide timely and accurate information.
At the 15 forum of experts and business representatives of enterprises are discussed on the development status of the electronic commerce form of cross-border trade between China and Russia, the existing problems and future development prospects.
The participants believe that, with the continuous development of China-Russia electronic commerce, application field and the region continues to expand, as well as the Sino-Russian trade ties, as electronic commerce will twenty-first Century trade activity basic economy has become a new power to promote the development of trade between the two countries.
MYEX min Asia International Express
2013-06-25