ministry of commerce: cross-border e-commerce imports and exports reached 1.22 trillion yuan in the first half of the year, a record high
2024-09-18
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cover news reporter su yu dai rui
on september 18, the state council information office held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of the 3rd global digital trade expo. assistant minister of commerce tang wenhong introduced that in the first half of 2024, china's digitally deliverable service imports and exports reached 1.42 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.7%, a record high. cross-border e-commerce imports and exports reached 1.22 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.5%, also reaching a record high, and its supporting role in the high-quality development of trade has been continuously strengthened.
tang wenhong introduced that the development of digital trade in my country is accelerating. digital trade, with data as the key element, digital services as the core, and digital ordering and digital delivery as the main features, has become a new trend in the development of international trade and a new growth point for economic development.
tang wenhong, assistant minister of commerce. image source: guoxin.com
the digital economy maintains steady growth. in 2023, the added value of china's core digital economy industries will account for 10% of gdp. the number of chinese netizens has reached 1.092 billion, and the internet penetration rate has reached 77.5%. the scale of china's cloud computing market has reached 616.5 billion yuan, an increase of 35.5%. the data factor market is becoming increasingly active. in 2023, the total data production reached 32.85 zettabytes, an increase of 22.4%. all these have laid a solid foundation for the reform, innovation and development of digital trade.
competitive strength has been significantly improved. the "cloud economy" ecosystem has gradually taken shape, giving rise to new forms and models of service outsourcing such as crowdsourcing, cloud outsourcing, and platform subcontracting. in 2023, china's offshore service outsourcing execution amount reached us$151.36 billion, and the overseas sales revenue of self-developed games reached us$16.67 billion. many top games have been widely recognized overseas and have long been at the top of the download list. the scale of the overseas market for online literature has exceeded 4 billion yuan, with about 230 million overseas users, and the overseas ecological pattern of online literature has taken shape.
tang wenhong said that the government will increase policy support, improve laws and regulations related to digital trade, and speed up the formulation of standards in the field of digital trade. it will cultivate leading digital trade enterprises with strong innovation capabilities and international competitiveness, actively cultivate small and medium-sized digital trade enterprises with high outward orientation and unique competitive advantages in subdivided fields, actively participate in wto e-commerce negotiations, promote the process of joining depa and cptpp, deepen multilateral and regional digital trade dialogues and cooperation, and contribute chinese wisdom and solutions to the development of digital trade.
