China has been the world's largest online retail market for 12 consecutive years

In 2024, e-commerce gathered new growth momentum, the annual national online retail sales increased by 7.2%, China has become the world's largest online retail market for 12 consecutive years.

Industrial e-commerce has created new channels for the integration of data and reality, organized nearly 500 industrial docking activities across the country, and cultivated more than 2,000 "e-commerce + industrial belts" to drive collaborative innovation in the industrial chain. "Silk Road E-commerce" has expanded new space for international cooperation, and the number of partner countries has increased to 33. The "Silk Road E-commerce" cooperation pilot zone has made full progress in 38 tasks, providing fruitful support for institutional opening-up in the field of e-commerce. The implementation of the three-year action Plan for digital commerce has been effective, and the digitalization level in all areas of commerce has steadily improved, becoming a new driving force for the development of new quality productivity.

According to reports, in 2025, commerce authorities at all levels will make efforts to integrate online and offline, create a good e-commerce ecology, expand digital consumption, and empower industrial transformation; Force domestic and international linkage, expand institutional openness in the field of e-commerce at a high level, promote high-quality "Silk Road e-commerce" cooperation, and build strong e-commerce production and supply chain; Force digital transformation in the business sector and enhance digital governance capabilities.

Resource: 人民日报