Cainiao AliExpress cross-border warehouse opens in Chengdu! Sichuan-Chongqing industrial belt embraces semi-hosting

On April 16, Cainiao and AliExpress announced that the Chengdu Industrial Belt Warehouse was officially put into use. The new warehouse opened at the "doorstep" will comprehensively reduce the inventory pressure of cross-border merchants in the southwest region, allowing more merchants to conveniently join AliExpress semi-hosting and enjoy the traffic dividend brought by the hosting model.

It is understood that this is the first time that Cainiao and AliExpress have extended their cross-border industrial warehouses to southwest China , following the Shenzhen digital 3C, Foshan home improvement, and Xuchang wig industrial warehouses. They can radiate to Sichuan and Chongqing women's shoes, auto parts, beauty and health and other characteristic industrial belts, which is equivalent to opening a warehouse at the doorstep of cross-border e-commerce . The warehouse is based on the rich supply of industrial warehouses, allowing merchants to flexibly prepare warehouses and replenish goods.

At the warehouse opening ceremony held on the same day, reporters learned that the warehouse is located in the center of the Sichuan-Chongqing industrial belt, truly realizing the "door to the warehouse" concept. AliExpress semi-managed merchants in the local industrial belt can prepare warehouses at their doorsteps, with shipments arriving at the warehouse in the afternoon at the earliest . Goods can be shipped out of the warehouse within 24 hours after consumers place an order. Subsequent inventory management, transfers, handovers, and first-leg delivery are all handed over to Cainiao, seamlessly connecting to the international express line resources of "Global 5-Day Delivery".

More importantly, since the industrial warehouse is adjacent to the industrial belt factories, semi-hosted merchants can adopt a flexible warehouse preparation mode with small batches and multiple batches, without the need for large-volume, high-cost stocking, which can greatly reduce financial pressure and inventory management risks. At the same time, the industrial belt warehouse also systematically solves the problem that JIT self-shipment cannot arrive at the warehouse within 72 hours, making AliExpress's semi-hosted model more suitable for the "constitution" of local cross-border sellers.

Ms. Luo, a coffee machine merchant from Chengdu who expressed her intention to join the warehouse at the press conference, told reporters that as one of the first local merchants to join the full-hosted service of AliExpress, AliExpress and Cainiao provided efficient cross-border express delivery services, which alleviated their concerns about overseas stocking. "Now that AliExpress has opened semi-hosted services and also has a stocking warehouse at our doorstep, we must follow the platform's policies and grab Choice's traffic."

It is reported that China has hundreds of distinctive industrial belts distributed across the country. In recent years, more and more industrial belt enterprises have played the advantages of traditional manufacturing, seized the opportunity to go overseas with the help of cross-border e-commerce, and achieved breakthroughs on AliExpress. Public data shows that in March alone , 20,000 AliExpress semi - hosted merchants saw an increase of more than 100% in orders.

Recently, AliExpress and Cainiao have joined hands to expand overseas, and their cross-border services have been upgraded one after another. First, they jointly upgraded the "Global 5-Day Delivery Service", and then it was revealed that AliExpress is preparing the "10 billion subsidy brand overseas expansion" plan, known as the "No. 1 Project", with 1,000 places available in the first batch. Merchants can participate in the full trusteeship or POP semi-trusteeship mode, and enjoy the "10 billion subsidy" special support and exclusive channel traffic. Cainiao has also opened an exclusive logistics channel for brands to expand overseas to help.

Public information shows that Cainiao was founded in 2013 and has built a world-leading smart logistics network in the past ten years, becoming a leader in global e-commerce logistics. In Alibaba's latest quarterly financial report, Cainiao's quarterly revenue increased by 24% year-on-year, maintaining strong growth. Data shows that Cainiao is currently one of the world's largest cross-border e-commerce logistics companies, processing more than 1.5 billion cross-border e-commerce packages annually.

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