BRICS gets more byte
- By Zhou Xiaoyan
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The seventh meeting of the BRICS trade ministers kicks off in Shanghai on August 1. [Photo/Xinhua] |
As more and more consumers choose to make purchases online, e-commerce is enjoying mushrooming growth around the world.
In China, cross-border e-commerce imports reached 1.2 trillion yuan ($179.3 billion) in 2016, up 33.3 percent from 2015, and the figure is expected to reach 1.85 trillion yuan ($276.4 billion) this year. The number of cross-border online shoppers surged 82.6 percent to 42 million in 2016, and is anticipated to hit 59 million this year, according to data from 100EC.cn, an e-commerce research institute.
"E-commerce offers small and medium-sized enterprises an opportunity to directly participate in global trade with more diverse customers and tailored products," Bai said.
"Presently, China's cross-border e-commerce platforms are growing by building warehouses as well as collection and distribution centers in foreign countries. But that's far from enough in terms of BRICS e-commerce cooperation," Bai said. "The domestic cross-border e-commerce network should be linked with the networks of other BRICS nations to create a larger cross-border network. China could use its experience to help them build their own cross-border e-commerce networks and then realize network linkage."
Zhong Shan, China's Minister of Commerce, said Chinese people will soon see more food on their dining tables from Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa, following the e-commerce cooperation initiative adopted at the Seventh Meeting of the BRICS Trade Ministers.
"BRICS ministers all think strengthening cooperation on e-commerce will boost trade, promote industrial upgrading, create jobs and help developing countries as well as small and medium-sized companies integrate into the global value chain," Zhong said at a press conference following the meeting. "Therefore, we decided to establish the BRICS e-commerce work group to start comprehensive cooperation and strengthen pragmatic cooperation in policy sharing and capacity building. It's expected that e-commerce will become the new momentum for BRICS trade and economic cooperation."
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