On November 10th, the Lanzhou New Area Digital Silk Road International Trade Innovation Zone officially kicked off, opening a new chapter in the development of digital trade and service trade in Gansu. More than 400 government and enterprise representatives gathered at the scene to witness this historic moment together.
The Lanzhou New Area Digital Silk Road International Trade Innovation Zone is renovated and revitalized based on the existing spatial carrier of the comprehensive bonded zone, with a total area of 30000 square meters. It is divided into functional areas such as cross-border e-commerce industrial park, overseas comprehensive service area, and enterprise incubation office area. Currently, more than 70 enterprises have settled in the zone, including Alibaba, China Inspection and Certification, Shiyan Technology, Baiye Yilu, Suoying Technology, Zhongda Wangxin, Rixin Guomao, covering cross-border e-commerce, service trade, digital trade, international logistics, customs clearance services, testing and certification, overseas services, financial services, legal services, and other fields. It has initially built an ecological system to support the development of diversified foreign trade formats in the comprehensive bonded zone.
Since this year, Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Bonded Area has seized the biggest opportunity of the "the Belt and Road", adhered to the development idea of "zone port linkage, industrial collaboration, digital empowerment, and linking the world", targeted high-quality resources and broad markets in Central Asia, West Asia, South Asia, Russia and other countries along the Silk Road, accelerated the construction of a "2+2+2" composite industrial system, and made every effort to create an emerging foreign trade industrial cluster with the coordinated development of international trade and bonded+featured services. The Lanzhou New Area Digital Silk Road International Trade Innovation Zone is an important carrier for the development of emerging foreign trade formats in the New Area Comprehensive Bonded Zone.
"We will take the Digital Silk Road International Trade Innovation Zone as the carrier, promote the coordination of trade in goods and services, the integration of traditional trade and digital trade, and the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, and strive to build the province's first 10 billion level digital trade industrial cluster." Wang Yanshan, director of the Management Committee of Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Protection Zone, introduced.
Next, Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Bonded Zone will further increase investment promotion efforts, continuously optimize the foreign trade business environment, focus on strengthening the leading function of bonded trade, make every effort to expand the scale of bonded logistics and processing, vigorously cultivate emerging industries such as cross-border e-commerce, bonded maintenance, bonded leasing, and bonded research and development, and promote the quality and efficiency development of the comprehensive bonded zone.