SMEs keen on e-commerce exports

Small and medium-sized enterprises in the Chinese mainland are more enthusiastic about the use of e-commerce and digital channels to drive export growth than their counterparts in other Asia-Pacific countries and the rest of the world.

About 97 percent of the 500 Chinese SMEs studied are already exporting their goods through e-commerce, compared with 80 percent for the Asia-Pacific region and globally, according to a recent research commissioned by FedEx Express.

The research covered 17 markets worldwide in August and September, interviewing 1,000 SME senior executives in Britain and 500 in each of the other markets.