Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 16th shows that in the first quarter of this year, China's foreign trade in goods reached a new record high for the same period, with total imports and exports amounting to 11.838 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.0% year-on-year. Behind these impressive figures, artificial intelligence is reshaping multiple aspects of the trade process—from selling products to shipping them—helping to drive an acceleration in cost reduction and efficiency improvement for foreign trade.
At the Yiwu International Trade Market in Zhejiang province, business owner Zhang Jiying is recording a promotional video for an umbrella product targeted at overseas markets. After entering the product's key selling points and target market, Zhang’s spoken description is quickly transformed into sales copy in multiple languages such as English and Spanish, complete with matching voiceovers and visual styles. Zhang Jiying explained that in the past, producing a complete overseas promotional video—from scriptwriting and translation to editing—would take at least one to two days. Now, the entire process takes less than 10 minutes.
At the same time, the application of AI is extending across the entire production and supply chain. On the 15th, a global smart hub warehouse was launched in Shenzhen, Guangdong. By linking domestic hub warehouses with overseas fulfillment centers, cross-border e-commerce sellers can ship export goods to the warehouse, where an AI demand forecasting model monitors inventory levels and consumer demand in destination countries in real time, enabling intelligent allocation and completion of cross-border shipping.
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