Hangzhou: The core area construction plan of the global digital trade port is expected to be introduced to seek national support for granting more authority to Hangzhou in the management of online games.

The Hangzhou Municipal Government has solicited public opinions on the implementation plan for the construction of the core area of the Global Digital Trade Port in Hangzhou (2025-2027). It mentions supporting the development of the Alibaba Digital Trade Headquarters in Yuhang, the Digital Game Base of West Lake Art and Innovation Town, the Digital Film and Television Base in Linping, the Digital Cultural Base in Liangzhu, the Digital Fashion Base in Shangchengli, and the Digital Esports Base in Gongshu. It also aims to develop large-scale overseas digital technology services trade, optimize digital financial, digital cultural tourism, and visual intelligence services trade, and strengthen digital media, digital film and television, animation and game product trade. It simplifies the approval process for digital content issuance permits and administrative approval for the domestic sale of digital content exclusively for export, and strives for national support to grant Hangzhou more authority in the management of online games, increasing the number of online game version numbers in Hangzhou.

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Hangzhou City promotes the implementation plan for the construction of the core area of the global digital trade port (2025-2027)

In order to implement the opinions of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on the reform, innovation and development of digital trade, in accordance with the spirit of the conference on building a high-level open and strong province, and the proposal of “building a modern digital trade port”, our city has put forward the construction of the core area of the global digital trade port and formulated this implementation plan based on the actual situation.

1. Development Goals

Leveraging the synergistic effect of the ‘Digital Free Trade Zone + Global Digital Trade Expo’ to enhance the core area’s brand influence of the global digital trade port significantly, driving the city’s digital trade scale leading, structure optimization, active entities, format upgrading, and standard setting, basically establishing a national demonstration zone for innovative development of digital trade. By 2027, the city will achieve a digital trade volume of 440 billion yuan, with over 350 outbound brands in the field of digital trade, more than 1,600 scale-above enterprises, and over 35 platform enterprises with global competitiveness.

Second, Development Layout

Form the development layout of the core area of the global digital trade port with “the Global Digital Trade Expo as the traction, three free trade zone blocks as the industrial carrier zone, and six digital trade characteristic bases as the focus” of “one meeting, three zones and six bases”.

(1) “One Meeting”

The Global Digital Trade Expo will permanently settle in Hangzhou, held in Hangzhou International Expo Center every September. Within a two-square-kilometer range around the expo center, a digital trade innovation port integrating high-end trade exhibitions, trade headquarters economy, digital expo, and trade services will be built, forming a ‘trade + exhibition’ industry agglomeration area. Leveraging the hub role of Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport and the aerotropolis economic demonstration zone, it will host a national industry fund worth billions of RMB serving digital trade, high-level public service platforms, and implement major digital trade projects.

(2) “Three Zones”

Binjiang District: Relying on national-level characteristic service export base, IoT town, Internet town, China Data Valley, developing data resources and property rights transactions, Internet-related services, digital finance, ‘digital+’ service direction, building a digital service center, payment settlement center, service outsourcing center.

Xiaoshan District: Relying on platforms such as China Vision Valley, Information Port Town, Turing Town, etc., develop cross-border e-commerce and digital finance, visual intelligence, music and film, digital logistics, and increase innovation exploration in the industrial cross-border e-commerce and cross-border platform fields.

Qiantang District: Relying on the Hangzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone, China Medicine Port, and Dachuang Town, develop cross-border e-commerce, ‘bonded+’ business, ‘digital+’ services, and metaverse. Deepen the innovation of cross-border e-commerce business and build a smart manufacturing trade center.

（Three）“Six Base”

Support the development of the Alibaba Digital Trade Headquarters in Yuhang, the Digital Game Base in West Lake Artistic Creation Town, the Digital Film and Television Base in Linping, the Digital Culture Base in Liangzhu, the Digital Fashion Base in Shangchengli, and the Digital Esports Base in Gongshu, gathering enterprises along the digital trade industry chain to create the optimal development ecosystem.

Three, key development areas

(1) Building the world’s leading exhibition for digital trade

1. Build a global showcase for innovative achievements in digital trade. Gather global high-end exhibition resources, with the internationalization rate of participating enterprises not less than 30%. Set up special zones for artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, low-altitude economy, aerospace, and aviation, etc., each session driving a growth of over 10% in the digital trade volume of participating trade enterprises. Coordinate with internationally renowned exhibitions to achieve “attracting exhibitions through exhibitions,” promoting the participation of market entities from over a hundred countries and regions. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Economic and Information Bureau, Municipal Transportation Bureau, Aerotropolis Economic Demonstration Zone Management Committee, Municipal Aerotropolis Construction Investment Group, Municipal Business Travel Group)

2. Building a platform for the global digital trade standard issuance rules. Strengthening cooperation with international organizations and authoritative institutions, upgrading the night of digital trade, continuously releasing major achievements such as global digital trade development reports and the top 100 list. Organizing participation in economic and trade negotiations with member countries of RCEP, CPTPP, DEPA, etc., and striving for the right to speak in formulating digital trade rules for the country. (Responsible unit: Municipal Bureau of Commerce)

3. Build a bridge of global digital trade industry cooperation. Organize a series of innovation competitions to promote project landing, product application, and result transformation. Attract leading enterprises in the global digital trade industry to exhibit, invite countries from the global South to participate, and unleash the green and inclusive dividends of digital trade. [Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, Airport Economic Demonstration Zone Management Committee, Municipal Airport Construction Investment Group, and various district and county (city) governments]

(2) Building the first city in the country’s entire digital trade industry chain

4. Seize five digital trade sub-sectors. Support various digital trade platforms to innovate one-stop services such as supply chain finance and logistics, and develop digital ordering trade represented by cross-border e-commerce. Develop digital technology services such as large-scale overseas expansion. Optimize digital finance, digital cultural tourism, visual intelligence, and other digital service trades. Strengthen digital media, digital film and television, animation games, and other digital product trades. Build a multi-level data element trading market and ecosystem with China Data Valley as the core carrier. [Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, Municipal Party Committee Financial Office, Municipal Cultural Radio, Film and Television Tourism Bureau, each district, county (city) government]

5. Build characteristic digital trade parks. Relying on the air economic demonstration zone, characteristic towns, national characteristic service export base, the first batch of 12 characteristic digital trade parks will be built to lead the coordinated development of digital trade with animation and game, traditional Chinese medicine, intellectual property rights, film and television, technical services, artificial intelligence, security and other industries. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Committee of the Propaganda Department, Municipal Health Commission, Municipal Economic and Information Bureau, Municipal Air Construction Investment Group, governments of various districts and counties/cities)

6. Promote the expansion of digital trade market entities. Cultivate leading enterprises in digital trade, attract headquarters of digital trade, incubate growing enterprises in digital trade, transform traditional trade enterprises, and utilize the core area of global digital trade port to drive thousands of traditional trade enterprises in the city to achieve brand expansion through digital trade. [Responsible units: Municipal Commerce Bureau, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, various district and county (city) governments]

(3) Building the first zone in the country for digital trade institutional innovation in the Free Trade Zone

7. Focus on the full-chain innovation of digital cultural trade. Simplify the approval process for digital content issuance licenses and the administrative approval for the domestic sales of exclusively exported digital content, strive for national support to grant Hangzhou more authority in the management of online games, and increase the number of online game licenses in Hangzhou. Explore the negative list management of international cooperation in digitalization in various fields. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Committee of the Propaganda Department)

Focus on the full chain innovation of data transactions. Carry out pilot projects for data asset entry, innovate the service model for data asset evaluation. Cultivate a data circulation ecosystem, support Hangzhou Data Exchange to explore the international version of data transactions. Strengthen the construction of a standard system for cross-border data circulation, establish a center for policy consultation on data outbound. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Data Resources Bureau, Municipal Committee of Cyberspace Administration, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Financial Investment Group, Binjiang District)

Focus on the full-chain innovation of the basic system of digital trade. Accelerate the launch of the first domestic digital trade statistical system.Support the establishment of a legal guarantee system that is in line with the reform and innovation in the field of digital trade. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Intermediate People’s Court, Municipal Bureau of Justice)

Focus on the full-chain innovation of the digital business environment. Strive to create a digital comprehensive bonded zone, develop new offshore trades. Iterate the digital free trade comprehensive application system, carry out a pilot program for the international professional qualifications recognition of digital trade, and innovate the new model of digital trade dispute mediation. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Qianjiang Customs, Municipal Economic and Information Bureau, Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Intermediate People’s Court, Municipal Judicial Bureau, Municipal Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and various district and county (city) governments)

(四) Building the first comprehensive trial zone for cross-border e-commerce in the country

11. The first to release the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive trial area 2.0 plan. Strive for national support to issue the Hangzhou cross-border e-commerce comprehensive trial area 2.0 plan, form a new list of institutional innovations around cross-border pharmaceutical OTC imports, cross-border e-commerce 9810 tax refund facilitation, etc., and promote a new round of national comprehensive reforms for cross-border e-commerce. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, Qianjiang Customs, Municipal Taxation Bureau)

12. Promote the integration of ‘live streaming + platform economy + cross-border e-commerce’. Promote cooperation between MCN institutions, cross-border e-commerce sellers, and platforms to build provincial live streaming demonstration bases. Support WEB3.0 and large-scale enterprises in providing digital solutions for the entire industry chain of cross-border e-commerce enterprises, forming a demonstration case of ‘cross-border e-commerce + artificial intelligence’. [Responsible units: Municipal Commerce Bureau, Municipal Economic and Information Bureau, governments of various districts and counties]

Promote the doubling of the scale of cross-border e-commerce exports. Add five billion-dollar industrial clusters for cross-border e-commerce exports and build five billion-dollar cross-border e-commerce parks. The cross-border e-commerce export scale in Xiaoshan District exceeds 20 billion yuan, while the export scale in Binjiang District and Qiantang District exceeds 10 billion yuan, driving the export of cross-border e-commerce in the entire city, including 9610, 9710, and 9810, to double again in 2024. [Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Qianjiang Customs, governments of various districts and counties (cities)]

(V) Building a global cross-border payment and settlement center

14. Develop commodity investment trade settlement services. Seize the opportunity of building the hub for commodity resource allocation across the province, attract the headquarters or trading centers, supply chain management centers, and risk management centers of commodity enterprises, launch various commodity index combinations, develop cross-border payment for commodity investment trade, data collection, and business services, and build an innovation center for commodity investment trade services. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Financial Office, People’s Bank of China Zhejiang Branch)

Support the global layout of cross-border payment institutions. Support the exploration of the application of digital RMB in cross-border payments, support Hangzhou-based cross-border payment institutions in applying for global payment licenses, by 2027, the settlement amount of cross-border e-commerce payments will exceed 1 trillion yuan, and establish a global cross-border payment settlement center. (Responsible units: Municipal Party Committee Financial Office, Municipal Commerce Bureau, PBOC Zhejiang Branch)

16. Promote the facilitation of cross-border trade, investment, and settlement in emerging markets. Promote the facilitation of cross-border investment and financing, conduct pilot programs for domestic reinvestment of foreign-invested enterprises without registration and direct registration of foreign debt by banks. Support the exploration of diversified settlement methods such as new types of barter trade in emerging countries. (Responsible units: Municipal Financial Office, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Bureau of Commerce, People’s Bank of China Zhejiang Branch)

(VI) Building a global comprehensive service center for digital trade

17. The international service organization for digital trade is established. It supports the development of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization’s Fourth Industrial Revolution Industry Accelerator, the Digital Innovation and Sustainable Development Center of the United Nations International Trade Center, and other institutions in Hangzhou. Actively strive to establish functional branches in Hangzhou for the BRICS organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and carry out global digital trade innovation incubation, information exchange, and risk warning cooperation. (Responsible unit: Municipal Bureau of Commerce)

Promote the interconnection of digital ports. Strive to explore the establishment of a ‘digital enclosure’ in the Hangzhou comprehensive bonded zone. Support Zhejiang Electronic Port to assist in the construction of the Khorgos Smart Port in Kazakhstan, and accelerate the connection of the two countries’ international trade ‘single window’. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Qianjiang Customs, Qiantang District)

19. Build a public service platform for digital trade. Promote cooperation with provincial cross-border e-commerce public service platforms and upgrade the Hangzhou cross-border e-commerce public service platform. Accelerate the introduction of leading domestic and foreign trade comprehensive service platform companies, cultivate a group of digital service agencies for customs clearance and bonded supervision, tax compliance, intellectual property rights, brand certification, etc. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Qianjiang Customs, Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, Municipal Taxation Bureau, Municipal Council for the Promotion of International Trade)

(7) Building a global digital logistics hub

20. Improve the level of aviation logistics hub. Encourage the opening of more fifth freedom traffic rights routes, and strive for the seventh freedom traffic rights. Give full play to the role of the aviation logistics public information platform, link international intelligent cargo stations, and innovate the pilot of electronic air freight. (Responsible units: Municipal Transportation Bureau, Municipal Commerce Bureau, Xiaoshan Airport Customs, CAAC Zhejiang Air Traffic Management Division)

Support the global layout of the digital trade hub (eHub). Encourage leading digital trade enterprises to establish public overseas warehouses and set up overseas localized service networks in countries along the “Belt and Road”. Support leading enterprises such as Cainiao to set up digital trade hubs (eHub) at global logistics hub nodes, and build the “123” fast goods logistics circle. [Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Transportation Bureau, various district and county (city) governments]

22. Develop multimodal transportation of sea, land, air, and water. Give full play to the role of Xiasha Port and Dongzhou International Port, develop transit business with Ningbo Zhoushan Port, Shanghai Yangshan Port, and Jiaxing Zapu Port, promote the ‘air-railway-road’ intermodal transportation at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, and the ‘railway-road-water’ intermodal transportation at Xiaoshan Bailutang, to build a radiating international air-land transportation hub and a connecting Yangtze River Delta public rail-water transportation hub. (Responsible units: Municipal Transportation Bureau, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Commerce Bureau, Lin’air Economic Demonstration Zone Management Committee, Municipal Investment Group, Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, Xiaoshan District, Qiantang District, Fuyang District)

Four, Development Guarantee

23. Establish a specialized operation mechanism. Establish a specialized operation mechanism for city-district linkage and government-enterprise collaboration, formulate annual work plans, compile lists of important indicators, major projects, and key task implementation, hold regular meetings, and coordinate the resolution of major issues.

24. Introduce a supporting policy. Introduce relevant supporting policies to provide financial support for leading enterprises’ introduction, market entity cultivation, brand promotion, land and energy use, credit financing, etc.

25. Make a special effort to empower. Focus on the pain points, difficulties, and bottlenecks of the entire digital trade industry chain, actively seek special empowerment from the country in the field of digital trade, and lead the way in opening up the institutionalized digital trade.

26. Make good use of an industry fund. Give full play to the role of the second phase of the national service trade fund for serving digital trade, which has landed in Hangzhou, to establish sub-funds in the digital trade segment, supporting the development of small and medium-sized digital trade enterprises in the core area of global digital trade ports.

27. Cultivate a group of digital trade talents. Cooperate with Zhejiang Gongshang University to establish the first digital trade college in the country, and set up a digital trade college training and practice base in the Lin Kong Economic Demonstration Zone. Support Zhejiang Media College and other universities in Hangzhou to establish majors in digital cultural trade and other digital trade. Support qualified digital trade professionals to be recognized as high-level talents in our city, and enjoy corresponding benefits and facilitation services according to policy.

(Source: Securities Times)

Source: East Money

Author: Securities Times