Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai

Zhuhai's e-commerce platforms registered an impressive sale volume during the 618 online shopping festival due to a vibrant market and optimized business environment, according to the city's bureau of commerce.

For instance, Guangfeng Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park in Doumen District received 49,000 orders on June 18, surpassing the number of orders recorded on last year's Singles Day online shopping festival by 3,000.

Express delivery surge due to the 618 online shopping festival. 

The opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has brought the park great advantages in speedier customs clearance and land-air combined transport with Hong Kong International Airport. Its import volume from January to May exceeded that made in the whole of 2018, according to Zhang Jie, general manager of Guangfeng Logistics Co Ltd.

Zhuhai was approved by the State Council as a Comprehensive Cross-Border E-Commerce Pilot Zone to pioneer business-to-business technical standards, workflow, supervision modes, and information practices last July. It started its cross-border "online shopping bonded import" services in January.

Meanwhile, domestically leading e-commerce enterprises have been active in expanding their business in Zhuhai. Cainiao Network Technology, the nation's top courier aggregator, has partnered Zhuhai Post and Easy Cross-border Supply Chain Service to operate cross-border e-commerce businesses coded 9610 in Zhuhai-Macao Cross-Border Industrial Zone.

An unmanned express delivery vehicle runs to a Cainiao Network Service Station. [Photo courtesy Xinhua]

Zhuhai imported 389,000 packages valued at 124 million yuan ($18 million) in the first five months of 2019, a 13.7-fold increase from the same period last year. The city aims to realize an annual turnover of 5 billion yuan ($726 million) and incubate three cross-border e-commerce industrial parks at the provincial-level by 2021.