自贸区跨境电商趋增 - 2015年10月14日

AN increasing number of companies are entering the booming cross-border e-commerce business because the Shanghai Free Trade Zone offers a convenient channel to cater to domestic consumers eager to buy quality imported goods.

Kuajingtong, the state-backed e-commerce platform that currently hosts more than 100 vendors of imported goods, is one of the newer faces on the scene.

It is financed with US$500 million from a venture called Face to Face that was formed in April by Itochu, Japan's third-largest trading house, Charoen Pokphand Group, Thailand's biggest conglomerate, and Chinese companies CITIC, China Mobile and Shanghai Information Investment Inc.