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"In previous years, we didn't resume normal operations until after the Lantern Festival. On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year this year, many customers placed orders on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. Soon, we 'exploded' positions, and now we can't put down the things shipped over." Standing at the door of a busy warehouse, Dou Jianlei, general manager of Shenzhen Lianyuan Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., told reporters that since the beginning of the New Year, his warehouse has been running almost 24 hours a day. "Most of the goods are imported from abroad, and there are also small cross-border e-commerce packages that will be shipped overseas by rail, air transportation, etc."

Since the beginning of the year, cross-border e-commerce has been developing rapidly. Statistics show that in the first two months of this year, China's cross-border e-commerce imports and exports increased by nearly 10% year-on-year. While meeting the diverse personalized needs of domestic consumers and helping Chinese manufactured products "go global" and reach the world, it has also become an important driving force for foreign trade development and consumption upgrading.

Behind the "spring breeze" of new business models, the facilitation of cross-border parcel clearance, the empowerment of "digital" and "intelligent" technology, the steady development of overseas warehousing business, and the optimization of financial insurance and other pro-enterprise services...all have contributed to the efforts of cross-border e-commerce enterprises to "sell globally".

Electronic tax guarantee for corporate facilitation

On April 2nd, the General Administration of Customs implemented cross-border e-commerce retail import tax guarantee electronic reform in 15 direct subordinate customs including Qingdao Customs and Xiamen Customs to start the pilot work.

Under the new mode, cross-border e-commerce enterprises apply to banks, and banks complete the credit approval process after receiving the instructions, and the electronic letter of guarantee is sent to the customs for record. The simplified process for applying for guarantee business effectively solves the problem of enterprises "running between" banks and customs and "running multiple times", saving time and administrative costs, and further improving the efficiency of cross-border e-commerce customs clearance.

On that day, staff at Huangdao Customs, subordinate to Qingdao Customs, received an electronic tax guarantee for Hangzhou Cainiao Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. issued by Hangzhou Branch of China Minsheng Bank via customs cross-border e-commerce management system. The tax guarantee was filed immediately. It was the first time for the customs to realize the electronic cross-border e-commerce tax guarantee. Up to now, Qingdao Customs has filed a total of 29 cross-border e-commerce retail import tax guarantee letters, with a total guarantee amount of RMB 220 million yuan.

"The biggest impression is convenience!" General Manager Li Wulong of Xiamen Lugangtong Supply Chain Co., Ltd. also enjoys the benefits of this policy. He said that it takes at least a week to mail the letter of guarantee and submit the materials. "With the electronic letter of guarantee, the customs can receive the filing information as soon as the bank successfully processes the letter of guarantee, which greatly improves the efficiency and convenience of handling matters."

Digital Intelligence enables smoother customs clearance

Since the beginning of this year, Shenzhen's cross-border e-commerce industry has maintained a good momentum of steady and rapid development. According to statistics, in the first quarter, the import and export value of cross-border e-commerce in Guangdong Province exceeded 200 billion yuan. Among them, the import and export value of cross-border e-commerce in Shenzhen exceeded 110 billion yuan, with an increase of over 95%. While reaching a record high in scale, it also accounted for half of Guangdong Province's cross-border e-commerce import and export value in the first quarter.

The Shenzhen Airport International Express Operation Center sees such busy scenes every day:Trucks full of cross-border e-commerce parcels have just entered the station channel, and the vehicle's structured data is immediately extracted by the system. Under the monitoring of the panoramic camera, the vehicle arrives at the unloading area of the station after being "precisely captured" by multiple intelligent early warning systems, and the "overseas shopping" parcels are quickly and orderly cleared and rushed to consumers all over the country.

Thanks to posting channel reforms such as "intensive single checking", "centralized image reviewing" and "express delivery express release", over 90% of parcels have been automatically checked and released by the system in Shenzhen Customs. Nine postal operation sites in the region have realized intensive and information-based management.

In order to further expand the scale of cross-border e-commerce imports, Shenzhen Customs has promoted the "digital clearance" project, which automatically generates customs declaration manifest data by embedding a comparison mechanism of "order, payment slip, and waybill" in the enterprise platform, and realizes the digitalization of the whole process from placing an order to customs declaration. While implementing differentiated customs clearance management of parcels, the project jointly purifies the customs clearance environment of parcel channels via customs-enterprise cooperation. According to the estimation, the time required for goods to be cleared and delivered to consumers has been reduced by about 30% compared with the previous, saving enterprises' time and labor costs and improving the customs clearance efficiency.

"Our e-commerce operation demands are fully satisfied by convenient customs clearance, smart supervision, and standardized declaration," said Chen Lingzhi, Head of Customs Affairs Department of YunTu Logistics Products Operation, indicating that enterprises are increasingly optimistic about the prospects of cross-border e-commerce industry. In the future, enterprises plan to increase their investment in various aspects from facilities to transport capacity.

Overseas warehouse business thrives

As a crucial overseas node in cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouses provide convenience for Chinese merchants to "go global". Through the "overseas warehouse" model, cross-border e-commerce companies in China can export goods to their own overseas warehouses for prior storage and then distribute and deliver them promptly once orders are placed, which becomes one of the key ways to alleviate the problem of global logistics blockage and greatly enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.

Up to now, the number of overseas warehouses in China has exceeded 2,500. Among them, Shenzhen enterprises have built and operated more than 350 overseas warehouses globally, covering a construction area of over 3.8 million square meters. Shenzhen enterprises have not only focused on layout in developed countries and regions such as North America, Europe, and Australia, but also constructed and operated overseas warehouses in countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, with a total area of over 630,000 square meters.

Gu Cang International Depot is currently the enterprise with the largest overseas depot area in China. Li Yu, the public relations director of Gu Cang International Depot's parent company Zonten Group, told reporters that in Shenzhen, international depot enterprises can undergo point-to-point docking, one-time registration and one-stop online registration. Enter the business registration through the "one enterprise, one policy" measure. The enterprise completes the record registration more smoothly, reducing the time and human cost and promoting the standardization and efficient handling of overseas depot registration business.

According to these targeted instructions, record efficiency has been improved, enterprise operation costs have been reduced, and our overseas warehouse end-to-end service capability have been strongly supported, which will bring new opportunities to the enterprise's future development. Li Yu said.