Zhengzhou Cross-border E-commerce Event Kicks Off, Jointly Drawing a New Blueprint for Global Trade

On December 28, 2025, the “Zhengzhou in Cross-Border E-commerce, Henan Meets the World” Cross-Border E-commerce Ecosystem Implementation Industry Exchange Activity was grandly launched in Zhengzhou. Zhang Yongjun, Secretary-General of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, and elite guests from all walks of life gathered together to discuss the development blueprint of new cross-border e-commerce business models. Currently, Zhengzhou is working closely with the Shenzhen Cross-Border E-commerce Association (hereinafter referred to as “SZCA”). SZCA not only accurately empowers inland cities with the mature cross-border e-commerce experience of Shenzhen and the southeastern coastal areas, but also leads the gathering of high-quality global enterprise resources in Zhengzhou, injecting strong momentum into the upgrading of the cross-border e-commerce industry in Henan and even the inland regions of China. In 2025, China’s foreign trade faced a complex and challenging external environment. The Trump administration’s re-election imposed high tariffs on Chinese imports, putting immense pressure on foreign trade development. Even so, my country’s foreign trade withstood the pressure and maintained a steady upward trend. In the first 11 months, the total value of imports and exports reached 41.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.6%, of which exports reached 24.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.2%. In his speech at the event, Zhang Yongjun emphasized that cross-border e-commerce played a crucial supporting role behind this impressive achievement, becoming an important force for my country’s foreign trade to resist risks and achieve steady growth. As a new driving force for foreign trade growth, cross-border e-commerce maintained a rapid development trend. In the first three quarters of this year, my country’s cross-border e-commerce trade increased by 6.4% year-on-year, 2.4 percentage points higher than the total growth rate of goods trade during the same period. As of 2024, there were over 120,000 cross-border e-commerce entities nationwide, with the scale of overseas warehouse construction exceeding 2,500, covering a total area of over 30 million square meters, and related data for 2025 are still rising significantly. Deep cross-border cooperation serves as a core hub for the industry, continuously promoting the integration and efficient circulation of cross-border e-commerce resources, and providing important support for my country’s cross-border e-commerce entities to expand markets and reduce costs and increase efficiency. Zhang Yongjun pointed out that cross-border e-commerce is not only an “accelerator” for foreign trade growth, but also an important carrier for facilitating the smooth flow of domestic and international dual circulation. Platform enterprises rely on advanced technologies to build an efficient digital supply chain system, strengthening the linkage effect between the two markets and two resources, both domestic and international. By accurately connecting the needs of international customers with the supply of domestic enterprises, cross-border e-commerce has significantly improved the quality and efficiency of domestic and international circulation, allowing “Made in China” products to accurately reach global consumers, and enabling distinctive products from around the world to smoothly enter the Chinese market. In terms of industrial integration, cross-border e-commerce is deeply integrated into the real economy. A new development model of “cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt” has been formed, and the Shenzhen Cross-border E-commerce Association (SCEA) is actively promoting its implementation in inland cities such as Zhengzhou, helping local advantageous industries go global. The coordinated development of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive experimental zones, industrial parks, and industrial clusters has made e-commerce a key force in driving local advantageous industries and specialty products to go global. However, my country’s cross-border e-commerce development also faces challenges. There is still a significant gap between Chinese cross-border e-commerce platform companies and leading foreign companies; the supporting service capabilities such as cross-border payment and logistics distribution need to be improved; and the problem of uneven industrial development is prominent. SCEA is actively integrating resources to provide full-chain support for enterprises and help the industry address its shortcomings. Looking to the future, my country’s cross-border e-commerce development has enormous potential and broad prospects. Zhang Yongjun called on cross-border e-commerce companies and related institutions to promote the industry’s optimization, expansion, and strengthening, achieve diversified development in the global market, build an internationally competitive supply chain ecosystem, and improve supporting services. This event has established a comprehensive platform for exchange and cooperation, which will undoubtedly promote deeper cooperation among all parties and play an important role in Zhengzhou’s efforts to build a national-level cross-border e-commerce innovation demonstration zone and construct a new ecosystem for “Henan products going global.”