Li Xingqian of the Ministry of Commerce: China's cross-border e-commerce has grown nearly tenfold in five years and continues to maintain a momentum of rapid growth in the first quarter of this year.

[Ministry of Commerce Li Xingqian: China's cross-border e-commerce has increased nearly 10 times over the past five years and still maintains a momentum of rapid growth in the first quarter of this year.] Financial Associated Press, April 23, Li Xingqian, director of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said that in the past three years of the epidemic, many new changes have taken place in the international market. One of the important changes is that more and more consumers around the world are accustomed to online shopping. Through cross-border e-commerce platforms, people can buy all over the world without leaving home. At present, countries around the world are making great efforts to develop cross-border e-commerce, according to the WTO report, until 2026, the global B2C cross-border e-commerce will maintain a growth rate of 27%. In recent years, cross-border e-commerce in our country has maintained a momentum of rapid development, with an increase of nearly 10 times in five years. In the first quarter of this year, it continued to maintain a momentum of rapid growth.