(Yicai Global) Jan. 4 -- The volume of China’s cross-border e-commerce transactions climbed 63.3 percent to 2.45 billion last year, statistics the General Administration of Customs released today show. The figures encompass both imports and exports.

Trans-frontier e-tail boomed last year as it poses fewer potential adverse effects from the Covid-19 pandemic than offline transactions, many of which also migrated online.

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