{"id":30618,"date":"2026-03-17T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=30618"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:30:07","slug":"china-expands-pilot-cities-for-cross-border-trade-facilitation-campaign-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=30618","title":{"rendered":"China expands pilot cities for cross-border trade facilitation campaign in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260316\/1a2d848e82464963ab0f580ca773dc29\/202603161a2d848e82464963ab0f580ca773dc29_XxjwshE000095_20260316_CBMFN0A001.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 14, 2026 shows cargo ships loading and unloading containers at a container terminal in Xiamen, southeast China&#8217;s Fujian Province. (Photo by Zeng Demeng\/Xinhua)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China will expand its pilot cities for a cross-border trade facilitation campaign to 45 in 2026, up from 25 in 2025, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The six-month campaign was jointly launched by the GAC and 23 other departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sun Meijun, head of the GAC, announced at a deployment meeting that 20 cities have been newly added to the pilot list, including Hohhot, Changchun, Suzhou, Jinhua, Quanzhou, Nanchang, Yantai, Wuhan, Changsha, Zhuhai, Nanning, Kunming and Xi&#8217;an.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign will see a series of new measures rolled out, which focus on upgrading goods trade, expanding services trade, and promoting digital and green trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measures include innovations in customs clearance supervision, optimized services for new forms of foreign trade, improved cross-border logistics efficiency, smarter port construction, enhanced alignment with international standards, and better support for enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A GAC official said facilitating cross-border trade is essential to expanding opening-up, strengthening cooperation, and smoothing domestic and international economic flows. It also helps enterprises secure orders, explore markets, and increase profits amid global uncertainties, while demonstrating China&#8217;s support for the World Trade Organization&#8217;s Trade Facilitation Agreement and the multilateral trading system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2018, the GAC has organized annual campaigns to enhance cross-border trade, implementing a total of 144 measures by 2025, with 110 of these measures being adopted nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260316\/1a2d848e82464963ab0f580ca773dc29\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260316\/1a2d848e82464963ab0f580ca773dc29\/c.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China will expand its pilot cities for a cross-border trade facilitation campaign to 45 in 2026, up from 25 in 2025, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said on Monday. The six-month campaign was jointly launched by the GAC and 23 other departments. Sun Meijun, head of the GAC, announced at a deployment meeting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[2307,28021,28019,2076,28020,24903,18465],"class_list":["post-30618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-china-3","tag-compaign-2026","tag-cros-border-trade","tag-economy-2","tag-pilot-cities","tag-policy-incentives-2","tag-role-model-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30620,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618\/revisions\/30620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}