Cross-border e-commerce shoppers in China hit 140 million in H1
The State Council Information Office (SCIO) holds a press conference on implementing the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), accelerating customs modernization, and contributing to building China into a leading trading nation in Beijing, capital of China, July 22, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)
A total of 140 million people in China made purchases through cross-border e-commerce platforms in the first half (H1) of 2026, with exports via overseas warehouses surging 3.3-fold, the country’s top customs official said on Wednesday.
Highlighting the robust growth of new business models and formats in the cross-border e-commerce sector, Sun Meijun, head of the General Administration of Customs, unveiled the figures at a press conference.
In 2025, China’s total cross-border e-commerce imports and exports reached 2.84 trillion yuan (about 418.06 billion U.S. dollars), up 4.8 percent year on year, customs data showed.
Market procurement exports, meanwhile, exceeded 800 billion yuan during the same period.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
