The Current Situation, Existing Problems And Related Suggestions Of The Imported Cross-border E-commerce In China

Investment, imports and exports, and consumption are the troika of Chinese economic development.Compared with developed countries, consumption accounts for less than 50% of GDP in China, far below 70% inmost developed countries.Since the new government took office, the state launched a series of policies, with the hope offundamentally changingthe situation thatChina’s economy is overly dependent on both investment and imports and exports, in order to increase the proportion ofconsumption in GDP and torealize the long-term and stable development of Chinese economy.In recent years, with the increasing popularity of electronic commerce in our country, cross-border e-tradeshavegotrapid development, compared to the "sea Amoy", purchasing mode, cross-border e-tradesin terms of product quality, service and supervision has got greatimprovement.Under the tight supervision of the government, from the source to put an end to the fraud and tax evasion behavior.At the same time, the state taxes the cross-border e-trades by parcel tax, making the tax of domestic consumer goods greatly reduced, significantly increasing both the price advantage of imported goods and consumers’ willingness to purchase those goods. The rapid development of cross-border e-trades also inducesa new status for foreign trade, e-commercesuppliers, logistics, and warehousing services, providingnew growth roomfor public entrepreneurship and employment, and becomespart of the new driving force of the economic development.The first launching ofcross-border e-importswas in May 2012. Seven cities in China, including Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou, and Shenzhenare so-called pilot cities,each with own regulations implemented on cross-border e-tradesbusiness. In May 2014, President Xi Jinping, during his investigation in Zhengzhou, proposed the slogan of “buy global, sell global” for the cross-border e-trades industry in China, pointing out the direction of development for the development of cross-border e-trades ofChina. In July 2014, the Document No. 56 and No. 57 issued by The General Administration of Customs of China, standardize the regulations and policies in commodity inspection, taxation, logistics, warehousing for cross-border business in customs, providing systematic guarantees.However, we have to note thatthere are still unresolved issues within the development of Chinesee-trades business in terms of policy, logistics, human resources, financial support, and infrastructure development. This paper aims to study the background, development status and existing problems in the Chinesecross-border e-tradesindustry and toprovide suggestions for solving the issues, with the hope of improving the service levels in government policy, supervision and regulations, comprehensive services, transportation and logistics, personnel training, financial support, and infrastructure aspectsfor Chinese cross-border e-tradesbusiness, in order to promote an environment of having standard specification, integrity, and openness for cross-border e-tradesbusiness and making cross-border e-tradesbusiness a new engine of stimulating the growth of domestic consumption.