The head of an enterprise in Handan recently called the Northern (Cangzhou) Cross-Border E-Commerce and "Hebei Goods Going Global" Comprehensive Service Center to inquire about platform onboarding, overseas warehouse connections, and logistics costs. Staff at the center patiently answered the questions and gave a detailed introduction to a series of new pro-enterprise measures the center has rolled out for the province's distinctive industrial clusters.

On March 20 this year, the city established the Northern (Cangzhou) Cross-Border E-Commerce Operations Center. Since its founding, the center has continuously introduced innovative service measures to help Cangzhou goods reach overseas markets.

Not long ago, in order to keep pace with the development of the cross-border e-commerce industry, the center was upgraded to the Northern (Cangzhou) Cross-Border E-Commerce and "Hebei Goods Going Global" Comprehensive Service Center, elevating it from a "single e-commerce channel" to a "full-form trade comprehensive platform," with its service scope expanded from local Cangzhou to the entire province.

After the upgrade, the center can handle more tasks: on top of its original full-chain cross-border e-commerce services, it has added general trade and bulk trade services, improved diversified services such as customs clearance and tax rebates, foreign exchange settlement, international logistics, supply chain finance, overseas warehouse connections, and compliance and risk control, lowering the threshold for enterprises going global; it has also built the Cangzhou One-Person Company Innovation and Entrepreneurship Community, relying on online digital showrooms and offline product selection events to help Hebei's industrial goods and light consumer goods explore overseas markets.

"We will base ourselves in Cangzhou, give full play to advantages such as the port and logistics, and accelerate the push for 'Hebei goods going global,'" said Wu Shenxing, head of the Northern (Cangzhou) Cross-Border E-Commerce and "Hebei Goods Going Global" Comprehensive Service Center. At present, the center has completed a cross-border e-commerce logistics base and reached cooperation with a number of logistics enterprises at Huanghua Port, enabling "global product selection, Cangzhou consolidation, and one-click going global," opening a convenient and efficient cross-border trade channel for enterprises across the province.

Wu Shenxing said the purpose of this upgrade is to guide and promote local Hebei enterprises to explore overseas markets and find new growth points. The center will base itself on Cangzhou's distinctive industries, serve the province's 107 industrial clusters, and build a comprehensive foreign trade service carrier integrating bulk trade, general trade, and cross-border e-commerce. At the same time, by connecting the entire business chain of product selection, platform onboarding, international logistics, and brand promotion, it will continue to improve its comprehensive foreign trade service system, act as a good "service provider" for enterprises going global, and meet the foreign trade development needs of different enterprises.