During the National Day holiday, cross-border e-commerce at Shanghai ports remained busy, with imported goods cleared rapidly and export products urgently consolidated for shipment overseas, continuously releasing foreign trade momentum.
Currently in the stockpiling period for year-end promotions on overseas e-commerce platforms, at the Shanghai Maritime Cross-Border E-Commerce Operations Center in the Waigaoqiao Port Area, batches of clothing, gifts, and other goods produced by factories in the Yangtze River Delta are arriving at warehouses one after another. The customs' innovative "total waybill plus LCL consolidation" supervision model has solved the previous difficulties for small and medium-sized enterprises of "being unable to afford waiting to fill a full container and high costs for separate shipments," driving steady growth in cross-border e-commerce freight volume.
At the Songjiang Aviation Pre-station, a similarly bustling scene unfolds, with staff intensifying the sorting and packing of cross-border e-commerce goods, achieving a daily average shipment volume of 100 tons during the National Day holiday. A manager from an international logistics company stated that previously, goods had to be delivered to the Pudong Airport cargo station several days in advance, waiting in line for security checks and inspections. If flights were adjusted, they had to repeatedly visit the site, and during peak periods, waiting one or two days was not uncommon. Now, delivering goods to the pre-station is equivalent to boarding a "direct express" for going overseas, akin to "moving" the airport cargo station to the enterprise park, reducing logistics costs by 10%–15%.
Customs officials said that by embedding customs supervision into the enterprise warehousing and logistics operations and using non-intrusive intelligent inspection equipment, the vast majority of goods can achieve seamless customs clearance, shortening logistics time by an average of 30%.
Latest customs data show that cross-border e-commerce exports at Shanghai ports have exceeded 100 billion yuan this year, a year-on-year increase of nearly 30%, maintaining double-digit high-speed growth for eight consecutive months. Among them, the number of import and export cross-border e-commerce manifests at Pudong Airport Port has ranked first in the country for air transport for three consecutive years. From breaking through with maritime LCL to speeding up with aviation pre-stations, Shanghai ports are continuously releasing the vitality of "buying globally and selling globally" through institutional innovation and technological empowerment.
Hubei: National Day Holiday Sees Rising International Cargo Flow at Ezhou Huahu International Airport
In Hubei, Asia's first professional cargo airport—Ezhou Huahu International Airport—saw unceasing cargo flow during the holiday, with batches of cross-border cold-chain fresh products entering rapidly and heading directly to the domestic market, enriching holiday dining options.
During the National Day period, an average of 30 flights entered and exited Ezhou Huahu International Airport daily, with international goods flowing efficiently. From January to September this year, the airport's international cargo and mail throughput exceeded 380,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%, setting a new record for the same period in history. Currently, the airport has opened 122 cargo routes, ranking first in the country; among them, 59 international routes can reach more than 170 countries and regions worldwide. Fresh products such as Norwegian salmon, Thai durian, Boston lobster, and chilled beef can be distributed directly to markets nationwide within 24 hours.
Gu Yong, deputy director of Ezhou Customs, introduced that customs innovated the "air-to-air transshipment" supervision model, where goods are transshipped directly within the supervision area without repeated customs declaration. Relying on intelligent image recognition and smart port systems to improve inspection efficiency, express clearance time has been reduced by 70%, and comprehensive enterprise costs have dropped by 30%. This model has been recommended globally by the World Customs Organization as an innovative case.
Imported fresh products transported from around the world arrive at Ezhou Huahu International Airport, complete customs clearance and inspection, and are quickly distributed to major agricultural product distribution centers across the country. As an important agricultural product distribution hub in Central China, the Shouhengcheng wholesale market in Xiaogan, Hubei, is bustling with activity, with container trucks entering in an orderly manner, shuttle vehicles moving back and forth, and wholesalers busy loading fruits ordered by buyers for shipment to various places. This market gathers agricultural products from more than 20 countries worldwide and over 30 provinces nationwide. Since the National Day holiday, the trading volume of imported fruits here has increased by more than 30% compared to usual.
Xinjiang Horgos: Border Sightseeing, Cross-Border Shopping, Diverse Experiences Boost Consumption
During the National Day holiday, the China-Kazakhstan Horgos International Border Cooperation Center welcomed a peak in tourist flow, with border sightseeing, cross-border shopping, and cross-border experiences surging, fully releasing the vitality of the port's cultural and tourism consumption market.
During the holiday period, the flow of people at the cooperation center continued to climb, with daily entry and exit exceeding 30,000 person-times, and tourists coming in an endless stream for入园 (entering the park), shopping, and sightseeing. Staff introduced that in the first five days of the National Day holiday, the number of customs clearances at the cooperation center reached 150,000 person-times, with all 22 intelligent manual inspection channels open. It is expected that throughout the holiday, the number of customs clearances at the cooperation center will exceed 200,000 person-times.
As a cross-border cooperation demonstration zone, it gathers specialty products from multiple countries, with diverse formats such as duty-free shopping and border-style tours becoming popular experiences sought after by tourists. Merchants are experiencing booming customer flow and steadily rising sales.
The China-Kazakhstan Cooperation Center spans the border between China and Kazakhstan. Citizens of both countries and third-country citizens can enter and exit without visas using valid documents such as passports or entry-exit permits for negotiations and trade, and each person can carry 8,000 yuan of duty-free goods per day. Currently, more than 200 duty-free enterprises and over 2,000 merchants have settled here, gathering nearly 10,000 kinds of goods from China, Central Asia, and European countries—from handicrafts and daily necessities to food and electronic products, with rich categories and obvious price advantages, fully meeting tourists' diverse shopping needs.
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