Data shows that in 2018, the global retail e-commerce sales will reach 24.9 trillion US dollars, accounting for 10% of global retail sales. By 2020, the proportion will rise to 14.6%; North America’s retail e-commerce grew by 15.6% in 2017, reaching 423.3 billion US dollars, making it the world’s second largest e-commerce market: Asia-Pacific is the world’s largest retail e-commerce market, exceeding one trillion US dollars in 2016, of which China’s retail e-commerce scale in 2017 was 899 billion US dollars.
Data shows that in 2016, the overall transaction scale of China’s import and export cross-border e-commerce (including retail and B2B) reached 6.3 trillion yuan. By 2018, the overall transaction scale of China’s import and export cross-border e-commerce is expected to reach 8.8 trillion yuan.
Ali Research Institute has compiled the ECI cross-border e-commerce index of countries along the “Belt and Road”. The top 10 countries in cross-border e-commerce are: Russia, Israel, Thailand, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Moldova, Turkey, Belarus, and Singapore.
The cross-border e-commerce connection index between China and major economies is compiled based on Alibaba’s cross-border e-commerce big data, referred to as the ECI index.