Cross-Border E-Commerce Pilot Zone to be Established in Hangzhou

On March 12, 2015, the State Council (国务院) released the Reply on Agreeing to Establish a Cross-Border E-Commerce Pilot Zone in China (Hangzhou) (国务院关于同意设立中国（杭州）跨境电子商务综合试验区的批复) (the “Reply”), which allowed Hangzhou, the capital city of East China’s Zhejiang Province, to set up the country’s first cross-border e-commerce pilot zone.