Cross-border e-commerce pilot zones to be expanded

SHANGHAI: China is expanding cross-border e-commerce pilot zones as part of the efforts to provide new impetus to imports and consumption, according to experts.

All cities and regions that host free trade zones, comprehensive areas of cross-border e-commerce, comprehensive bonded-areas, and select bonded-logistics centres are now eligible to start pilot programmrs of cross-border retail imports, according to a notice published on Monday by a group of government departments including the Ministry of Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission.