On September 30, 2026, a convoy of road transport vehicles loaded with 63,000 cross-border e-commerce goods including footwear and apparel departed from the Quanzhou International Mail Exchange Bureau under Quanzhou Customs supervision, transited to the Baketu Port in Tacheng, Xinjiang, and traveled via Kazakhstan directly to Kazan, Russia. This is the first time cross-border e-commerce goods from Quanzhou Port have been exported to the Eurasian Economic Union market via road transit, and it also marks the joint effort of Fujian and Xinjiang to open a new international cross-border e-commerce logistics corridor, the "Quanzhou–Tacheng–Kazan" route.

Key points

  • On September 30, 63,000 cross-border e-commerce goods including footwear and apparel departed from the Quanzhou International Mail Exchange Bureau and arrived in Kazan, Russia, via the Baketu Port in Tacheng and Kazakhstan.
  • This is the first time cross-border e-commerce goods from Quanzhou Port have been exported to the Eurasian Economic Union market via road transit.
  • Quanzhou's annual exports of light industrial products such as textiles and apparel, footwear, plumbing and hardware, and building materials and home furnishings exceed 100 billion yuan.

Previously, cross-border e-commerce goods sent by small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises in Quanzhou to Kazan mainly relied on sea freight or eastern land border ports, with total transit times exceeding 30 days, and commonly faced problems such as long cycles, port congestion during peak seasons, repeated customs declaration for multi-leg transshipment, and high overall logistics costs.

In response to these pain points, Quanzhou Customs conducted research and formulated a road export transit supervision plan, clarifying declaration standards and operating procedures; in the supervision process, it used methods such as "non-intrusive machine inspection" and "intelligent image review" to quickly process transit goods and apply customs seals, achieving "declaration, inspection, and release in real time," and proactively coordinated with customs at the port of entry to ensure smooth customs clearance along the corridor.

As the starting city of the Maritime Silk Road, Quanzhou is an important production and export base for light industrial products in China, and products such as textiles, apparel, and footwear have long been sold to the Eurasian Economic Union market through cross-border e-commerce channels. The new corridor connects Fujian and Xinjiang, two core areas of the Silk Road, providing local small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises with another logistics route for exporting light textile products besides sea freight and eastern land border ports. It helps shorten transport cycles, reduce overall logistics costs, and further expand Quanzhou's international logistics corridors with countries jointly building the Belt and Road.

Source: "Quanzhou-Tacheng-Kazan" new cross-border e-commerce logistics corridor opened · Originally published on 2026-10-12