The person in charge of the E-commerce Department of the Ministry of Commerce introduces the development of e-commerce in China in 2025

In 2025, the Ministry of Commerce will thoroughly implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, promote the stable development of e-commerce in China, and maintain its position as the world's largest online retail market for 13 consecutive years, helping to boost consumption, promote industrial transformation, deepen international cooperation, enhance social benefits, become a new quality productivity in the field of commerce, and actively assist in the high-quality development of commerce.

Online retail benefits people's livelihoods and empowers them. Introduce and implement policies for the development of digital consumption, hold online New Year's goods festivals and other "4+N" online consumption expansion activities, and promote the implementation of over 80 quality e-commerce cultivation measures on 10 platforms. Digital products have become a highlight of commodity consumption. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the online retail sales of physical goods in China will increase by 5.2% in 2025, contributing 36.2% to the growth of the total retail sales of consumer goods in society. According to business big data monitoring, the zero value of digital product networks such as mobile phones and intelligent robots increased by 20.5% and 18% respectively. E-commerce empowers service consumption, with business big data monitoring. By 2025, online service consumption is expected to grow by 22%, with online ticket purchases and offline experiences of sports events, tourism products, and in store dining websites experiencing zero revenue growth of 63.3%, 40.6%, and 23.7%, respectively.

Industrial e-commerce benefits enterprises and provides strong driving force. The "Digital Commerce Promotes Agriculture" initiative has entered Guangxi, Sichuan, Ningxia, and Shandong, deepening the platform's connection with agricultural product enterprises and cooperatives. The "E-commerce+Industrial Belt" continues to advance, with nearly 500 beneficial enterprise connections helping both supply and demand sides deepen cooperation in order matching, capacity undertaking, and digital transformation, promoting better service of the e-commerce supply chain to the sinking market. According to business big data monitoring, by 2025, the zero value of rural and agricultural product websites in China will increase by 6.7% and 9.9% respectively, while the e-commerce transaction volume of textile and pharmaceutical industries will increase by 6.6% and 3.8% respectively. In addition, e-commerce has driven rapid development in logistics and express delivery, communication software, artificial intelligence, and other fields. According to data from the State Post Bureau, the volume of express delivery services in China is expected to increase by 11.5% by 2025. According to the data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from January to November 2025, China's mobile Internet traffic increased by 17%, and the revenue from cloud computing and big data services increased by 12.8%.

Silk Road e-commerce benefits the world and promotes win-win outcomes. By 2025, China will establish new partnerships with Kenya, Bangladesh, and Egypt, upgrade its "Silk Road e-commerce" cooperation mechanism with Kazakhstan, and expand its partner countries to 36. The Shanghai Silk Road E-commerce Cooperation Pilot Zone has formed and promoted 12 institutional innovation achievements, including cross-border recognition of digital identities. 40 "Silk Road E-commerce" global events covering over 100 countries, reaching more than 240 cooperation intentions, and nearly 140 online and offline national pavilions, helping partner countries share the Chinese market. According to business big data monitoring, the retail sales of key cross-border e-commerce import platforms will increase by 5.6% in 2025. The 4th Global Digital Trade Expo attracted 1812 enterprises from 154 countries and regions to participate in the Expo, which reached a new high in scale. There were 382 premieres, first shows and first exhibitions, an increase of nearly 90%, making e-commerce contributions to promoting inclusive and win-win economic globalization.