Recently, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Commerce Department and six other departments issued the "Several Measures on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Cross-Border E-Commerce in Guangxi" (hereinafter referred to as the "The Measures"), proposing policy measures across thirteen aspects to accelerate the cultivation of new drivers for foreign trade.

To support the growth and development of cross-border e-commerce entities, “The Measures” propose supporting qualified enterprises in building industry-specific vertical cross-border e-commerce platforms or independent stations, cultivating a number of comprehensive service enterprises, and supporting the construction, upgrading, operation, and maintenance of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive service platforms.

Regarding strengthening the construction of Cross-Border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zones, “The Measures” propose promoting their differentiated development. It supports pilot zones in Nanning, Chongzuo, Liuzhou, Hezhou, Beihai, Wuzhou, Fangchenggang, and others in exploring differentiated development paths based on their local industrial foundations, locational conditions, and resource endowments.

Since Liuzhou was approved as a national-level Cross-Border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone in the seventh batch in 2022, we have actively explored the "cross-border e-commerce + leading industries" development model. Using cross-border e-commerce to help "Liuzhou products go global", we have promoted related enterprises in industries such as engineering machinery, automobiles and parts, wood-based panels and furniture, and Liuzhou Luosifen to engage in cross-border e-commerce business. “The Measures” focus on cultivating the "cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt" model. They propose rewarding and supporting counties (county-level cities, districts) where cross-border e-commerce industrial belts -- concentrating supplier enterprises producing and selling similar products and cross-border e-commerce enterprises -- are located, based on their production, operation status, and the scale of the industrial belt.

A reporter learned from the Foreign Trade Section of Liuzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau that Liuzhou will explore a new export model of "cross-border e-commerce + overseas display center + public overseas warehouse". In terms of supporting the construction of cross-border e-commerce overseas warehouses and similar facilities, “The Measures” propose encouraging and guiding diverse entities including cross-border e-commerce enterprises, traditional foreign trade enterprises, and logistics enterprises to participate in overseas warehouse construction through the comprehensive use of various investment and financing methods; Support enterprises in deploying overseas warehouses in key channels and nodes of ASEAN countries, along the Belt and Road, and in key markets within the RCEP region; and encouraging and guiding the integration of overseas warehouse resources, enhancing functions such as storage and distribution, marketing display, and goods consolidation, upgrading them into public overseas warehouses.

Data from Liuzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau shows that from January to May this year, Liuzhou achieved a cross-border e-commerce import and export volume of 77.45 million yuan, up by 5.3% year on year. Cross-border e-commerce has injected vitality into Liuzhou's foreign trade development. Currently, the number of sellers in Liuzhou engaged in cross-border e-commerce business exceeds 260, of which over 120 are operational on Alibaba International Station. “The Measures” provide policy benefits for the development of cross-border e-commerce in Liuzhou.