Nearly 20 business e-commerce associations and companies in China signed an agreement for cooperation in cross-border e-commerce at a sub forum of the sixth APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance Forum in Jinjiang, Fujian province, on June 28.

Together, the signing parties of the agreement will make efforts to create a market-oriented business environment in the e-commerce industry to provide an equality and reciprocity-based healthy environment for competition and upgrading among e-commerce companies.

Yan Chengxiao, president of Jinjiang City Chamber of Internet Commerce, said the signing of the agreement represents a strong push for exchange among e-commerce companies and will help strengthen horizontal and vertical integration in the field.