In an effort to upgrade its industrial structure, the Hangzhou government is to accelerate development of the digital economy, switching from traditional trade markets to global online retailing and the self-owned brand market.To get more hangzhou news, you can visit shine news official website.
At the 4th Cross-Border E-commerce Summit at the Baima Lake Expo Center last week, the city government announced the creation of a “Silk Road” in cyberspace and expanding digital business via invisible Internet routes to realize that upgrading plan.
Since President Xi Jinping proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiatives in 2013, China and countries along the ancient routes have launched a series of cooperative e-commerce projects.
The summit attracted industrial insiders and enterprises from home and abroad, hoping to serve cooperative projects more effectively.
Smart Africa, an organization sharing technology and expertise established under the initiative of African countries, is seeking investment from Hangzhou.The digital economy is upgrading the industrial structure in Africa. Alibaba Group has already reached cooperation with Rwanda,” said Didier Nkurikiyimfura, department director of Smart Africa. “I invite more Hangzhou companies to invest there and cooperate with Belt and Road countries, solving economic problems for Africa.”
Last year, Alibaba’s Jack Ma announced the construction an electronic world trade platform (eWTP) in Rwanda. The multilateral international collaboration platform aims to formulate new rules for international e-commerce, to benefit developing countries and to make easy “global sell” and “global buy” with the platform.
In addition, eWTP is also trying to promote best practices of Hangzhou’s cross-border e-commerce industry to other parts of the world, especially in Belt and Road countries, in the hope of re-connecting the ancient Silk Road with electronic businesses.
During the summit, the China (Hangzhou) Cross-Border E-commerce Pilot Zone signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shopee, a leading Southeast Asian e-commerce platform.
In the future, Shopee will set up an operational center and a logistics center in Xiaoshan District.
Both sides are looking forward to cementing cooperation in regional infrastructure, talent development and industrial clusters.
The partnership will serve as a gateway for Hangzhou enterprises to tap into the Southeast Asian market, as well as countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, aiming to promoting Hangzhou brands overseas.
In recent years, the focus of the cross-border e-commerce industry has switched from policy innovations and infrastructure development to building own brands for small and medium sized companies.
