{"id":6741,"date":"2023-09-03T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2023-09-03T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T14:14:10","slug":"china-to-add-16-national-e-commerce-demonstration-bases-in-2023-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/china-to-add-16-national-e-commerce-demonstration-bases-in-2023-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"China to add 16 national e-commerce demonstration bases in 2023: ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China&#8217;s Ministry of Commerce announced Saturday that 16 more e-commerce parks will be listed as national e-commerce demonstration bases this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a national e-commerce conference, Chen Chunjiang, assistant minister of commerce, said that the digital economy has provided a strong impetus for Chinese modernization and highlighted the vital role of the e-commerce sector in the economy and the country&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The e-commerce sector boasts the largest development scale and the widest coverage in the digital economy, said Chen, adding that China&#8217;s e-commerce sector has witnessed innovative development, with its scale enlarged and development quality improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Official data showed that China&#8217;s digital economy exceeded 50 trillion yuan (about 6.96 trillion U.S. dollars) for the first time in 2022, accounting for 41.5 percent of GDP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The e-commerce-related sectors in the country have created approximately 70 million jobs, and nationwide online retail sales have ranked first globally for ten consecutive years, the data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China will give a full play to the guiding role of national e-commerce demonstration bases and cultivate e-commerce industry clusters and leading enterprises with international competitive edges to empower the development of the real economy, Chen said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Ministry of Commerce announced Saturday that 16 more e-commerce parks will be listed as national e-commerce demonstration bases this year. Speaking at a national e-commerce conference, Chen Chunjiang, assistant minister of commerce, said that the digital economy has provided a strong impetus for Chinese modernization and highlighted the vital role of the e-commerce sector [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":6742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-china","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}