Chengdu busy reaching out to customers on the Web

E-commerce to focus on retail, cross-border trade, service sector, commerce bureau says

Chengdu plans to create more e-commerce businesses within a decade, in a bid to give the city an edge over competitors in the fields of heavy industry, low-profit export manufacturing and estate development.

Eager to diversify its economy, Chengdu's government implemented a number of policies, such as Chengdu's E-commerce Development Plan (2012-2015) and Promoting the Quick and Healthy Development of Chengdu's E-commerce Industry (2013-2015), to assist in such things as online payment services and cross-border logistics, as well as offering favorable policies to attract e-commerce enterprises from other parts of the country to settle in the city.