According to data released by the General Administration of Customs on the 9th, in the first four months of this year, China's total import and export value was 12.58 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.9% over the same period last year. Among them, exports were 6.97 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.3%; imports were 5.61 trillion yuan, an increase of 5%; trade surplus was 1.36 trillion yuan, an increase of 39.2%.
Li Kuiwen, director of the Statistical Analysis Department of the General Administration of Customs, said that under the more complex and severe external environment faced by China's foreign trade development, the country's foreign trade imports and exports have maintained growth in the first four months, which fully reflects China's strong economic resilience and sluggishness. With the characteristics of wide room and long-term positive fundamentals, the realization of the goal of maintaining stability and improving the quality of foreign trade throughout the year is still well supported.
Customs statistics show that China's foreign trade structure continued to optimize in the first four months. The import and export of general trade increased and the proportion increased. In the first four months, China's general trade import and export reached 8.01 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.2%, accounting for 63.6% of China's total foreign trade value, an increase of 1.9 percentage points over the same period last year. Among them, exports were 4.41 trillion yuan, an increase of 15%; imports were 3.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.8%. In addition, China imported and exported 1.51 trillion yuan in the form of bonded logistics, an increase of 7.6%. Among them, exports were 558.9 billion yuan, an increase of 13.5%; imports were 952.83 billion yuan, an increase of 4.3%.
China's imports and exports to major trading partners such as ASEAN, the European Union, the United States and South Korea increased. In the first four months, ASEAN was China's largest trading partner. The total trade value between China and ASEAN was 1.84 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.2%, accounting for 14.6% of China's total foreign trade value. Among them, the export to ASEAN was 1.03 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.7%; the import from ASEAN was 808.99 billion yuan, an increase of 5.3%; the trade surplus with ASEAN was 223.42 billion yuan, an increase of 23.2%. During the same period, China’s total imports and exports to countries along the “Belt and Road” reached 3.97 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.4%. Among them, exports were 2.2 trillion yuan, an increase of 12.9%; imports were 1.77 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.6%.
The import and export of private enterprises grew rapidly and the proportion increased. In the first four months, the import and export of private enterprises was 6.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 11%, accounting for 48.5% of China's total foreign trade, an increase of 1.4 percentage points over the same period last year. During the same period, the import and export of foreign-invested enterprises reached 4.42 trillion yuan, an increase of 2.2%, accounting for 35.1% of China's total foreign trade value. The import and export of state-owned enterprises was 2.04 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.1%, accounting for 16.3% of China's total foreign trade value.
Exports of mechanical and electrical products and labor-intensive products both increased. In the first four months, China exported 4.04 trillion yuan of mechanical and electrical products, an increase of 6.7%, accounting for 57.9% of the total export value. Among them, automatic data processing equipment and its parts and components were 508.88 billion yuan, an increase of 3.9%; mobile phones were 292.48 billion yuan, an increase of 0.1%. In the same period, the export of labor-intensive products was 1.21 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.2%, accounting for 17.3%
