25 Nov 2022
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On Thursday, the State Council announced the approval of 33 more cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) pilot zones, taking the national total to 165.
There are now pilots in every province: There are zones in the Ili Kazakh prefecture in the northwest, Tibet's Lhasa in the southwest, and coastal Ningde...
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