There are obvious complementarities between China and Russia's geographical locations and resources, which has laid a solid foundation for the development of border trade and border trade logistics between the two countries. In recent years, the scale of border trade between China and Russia has continued to expand, making important contributions to promoting friendly exchanges between the two countries. In addition, the strategic partnership established between China and Russia has also brought new development opportunities to the field of trade logistics.

01 Opportunities and logistics challenges of cross-border e-commerce between China and Russia

Behind opportunities are often challenges. Russia is a vast country with a total area of 17.0982 million square kilometers and spans about 9,000 kilometers from east to west. It relies only on railways as the main transportation artery, resulting in one-way transportation of goods taking up to six and a half days. This is a consideration that cannot be ignored in terms of time and cost when delivering items to a population of 147 million spread over a territory of 17.075 million square kilometers. Therefore, logistics companies have emerged one after another to meet this demand. Among them, Hunchun Changda, as a leader in the field of cross-border e-commerce logistics between China and Russia, stands out from many logistics service providers.

According to data from the Association of Russian E-commerce Enterprises (ACIT), in the first quarter of 2022, Russia’s total online consumption reached 1.25 trillion rubles, a year-on-year increase of 59%. In the field of cross-border e-commerce between China and Russia, statistics from the General Administration of Customs of China show that in the first seven months of 2022, the trade volume between China and Russia reached US$97.714 billion, a year-on-year increase of 29%. Among them, China’s exports to Russia were US$36.267 billion, an increase of 5.2%. These data show that the cross-border e-commerce field between China and Russia is full of huge potential and development opportunities.

As the cross-border e-commerce trade between China and Russia continues to heat up, the Russian cross-border e-commerce market has become a new blue ocean pursued by Chinese sellers. The Russian e-commerce market contains huge potential. The country has a population of 142 million and 80 million Internet users, more than half of whom have become loyal users of online shopping, and the demand for high-quality and affordable daily consumer goods continues to rise.

According to data from the Russian Internet Commerce Enterprises Association, as early as 2016, the cross-border e-commerce trade volume between China and Russia exceeded US$2.5 billion. In Russia, most of the major cross-border e-commerce platforms originate from China, and more than 90% of overseas packages are also sent from China. From a monetary perspective, Chinese products account for 52% of Russia’s total overseas online shopping. On average, more than 500,000 packages are sent from China to Russia every day.

However, it should be noted that cross-border logistics is still the main pain point in cross-border shopping between China and Russia.

02 "China-Russia cross-border e-commerce logistics cooperation: Hunchun Changda helps expand the international market"

In order to solve the logistics difficulties faced by Chinese and Russian sellers, Hunchun Changda has built a solid bridge of cooperation. Hunchun Changda (CEL) is the only Chinese-funded logistics company with a Russian personal parcel clearance license. It provides high-quality logistics services with many years of logistics experience on the Sino-Russian cross-border e-commerce platform.

Founded in 2016, Hunchun Changda has established cooperative relationships with Russian CDEK, PONY, DPD and Russian Post at Suifenhe Port in Heilongjiang Province, and signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The Sino-Russian international transportation e-commerce parcel channel is opened through the "handbag" style, providing customers with back-haul express delivery services in Russian-speaking areas.

Among the three pillars of the e-commerce model, namely logistics, payment flow and information flow, logistics, the guarantee of cross-border e-commerce, although only a part of it, is the ultimate presentation of the value of goods and services.

First of all, Hunchun Changda launched CEL-Express land and air combined transportation to the point service, which uses a combination of land transportation and air transportation to transport goods from the departure point to the destination. The delivery time of this service is 7 to 12 days, and the delivery rate in major cities exceeds 90%. Different from other logistics, this is the independent operation of formal customs channels, which is safe and controllable, low cost and fast. This service also accepts items such as live electricity, strong magnets, liquids, special goods, tobacco (excluding cigarette oil), and provides full loss compensation, up to US$200 per ticket.

Secondly, Hunchun Changda also launched the CEL-Economy card air transportation to point service. Qatar Airways is a form of truck transportation, but with the speed of air transportation. This kind of service not only promotes the diversification of logistics and transportation methods, but also attracts companies to adopt compliance channels and avoid gray markets because of its low freight costs. The time required to transport goods from China to Russia is 15 to 20 days, ensuring a delivery rate of more than 90% in major cities. Compared with sea, air and rail transport, Qatar Airways transport is less susceptible to space seizure issues. The entire process is transported by TIR Qatar Airways, with its own fleet to ensure timeliness and billing based on actual weight. We can also receive items such as charged, pure electricity, strong magnets, liquids, and special cargo, and provide professional customer service team tracking services.

Hunchun border warehouse service has also been launched recently to help sellers deliver goods to buyers more quickly. In addition, we have also launched a series of preferential benefits for border warehouses:

1. Hunchun border warehouse can use all logistics services of CEL, and enjoy the fast logistics timeliness and front-end timeliness display of the border warehouse.

Hunchun border warehouse prepares goods for shipment. OZON front desk display and actual transportation timeliness are as follows

The delivery time of CEL-Express (fast door-to-door/pickup point service) is 4-9 days

The delivery time of CEL-Economv (economic door-to-door/pickup point service) is 9-14 days

2. The preferential benefits of Hunchun Border Warehouse include:

Warehoused goods delivered to CEL designated logistics points will enjoy free transportation to Hunchun's main line logistics, 180 days of free warehousing, free warehouse operation services and free order placement services.

Previously, CEL developed a logistics plan specifically for sellers who operate small items. The most important thing is that both land and air combined transportation and land transportation have a maximum shipping weight of: 500G and a maximum shipment value of: 10,000 RUB. They only carry personal items and do not leave. Business supplies. A single package of general goods cannot contain more than 3 items of the same product, and a single package of different products cannot contain more than 3 items; each package of electronic products is limited to 2 items. The difference is that the maximum shipping size for land and air combined transport is: the sum of length, width and height does not exceed 60 cm, while for land transport the sum of length, width and height does not exceed 90 cm.

CEL Super small (land and air combined transport):

Timeliness from front-end warehouse to Moscow OZON warehouse: 6-11 days

Time from Hunchun border warehouse to Moscow OZON warehouse: 4-9 days

CEL Economy small (road transport)

Timeliness from front-end warehouse to Moscow OZON warehouse: 15-20 days

Time limit from Hunchun border warehouse to Moscow OZON warehouse: 9-14 days

At present, Hunchun Changda has signed strategic cooperation agreements with international transport fleets from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries, and has a total of more than 200 international transport vehicles serving the Asia-Europe logistics link.

03 Changda debuted at the International Cross-Border E-commerce Trade Expo

It is worth mentioning that the 2023 Sixth Global Cross-Border E-Commerce Festival and the Eighth Shenzhen International Cross-Border E-Commerce Trade Expo will be held on July 7 It will open in Shenzhen on March 31st.

It is understood that for export declarations, Changda Company is a nationwide customs filing company that formally handles cross-border e-commerce package export declaration information. Utilizing the customs' cross-border e-commerce declaration channel and the company's independently developed domestic and foreign customs declaration system ensures that the declaration data is accurate and clear while being efficient and fast.

In addition, Changda Company has also independently developed a warehousing logistics management WMS system and an enterprise trade comprehensive management ERP system. These systems include functions such as customs declaration and international express delivery.

In order to solve trade and communication problems in the global market and improve the logistics experience of e-commerce platforms, CEL has established a multi-lingual Internet trade data customs service customer service team with more than 100 people. The team provides a variety of service methods for cross-border enterprises to improve the convenience of cross-border e-commerce sales abroad. Changda is committed to building a green ecosystem for cross-border e-commerce from multiple perspectives such as product categories sold, logistics management, trade nature, safety and compliance.

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