General Administration Of Customs: China'S Foreign Trade Started Smoothly In The First Two Months Of This Year

According to the data recently released by the General Administration of Customs, in the first two months of this year, China's total import and export value of goods trade was 6.18 trillion yuan, a slight decrease of 0.8% year on year. Among them, the export reached 3.5 trillion yuan, up 0.9%, and the scale reached a record high in the same period; Imports reached 2.68 trillion yuan, down 2.9%; The trade surplus was 810.32 billion yuan, an increase of 16.2%.

Specifically, at the beginning of the year, China's foreign trade imports and exports mainly show the following characteristics:

First, the proportion of import and export of general trade increased. In the first two months, China's general trade import and export amounted to 4.01 trillion yuan, up 1.2% year on year, accounting for 64.9% of China's total foreign trade, 1.3 percentage points higher than the same period last year.

Second, closer economic and trade exchanges with ASEAN. In the first two months, ASEAN continued to be China's largest trading partner, with imports and exports reaching 951.93 billion yuan, up 9.6% year on year, accounting for 15.4% of China's total foreign trade value. Over the same period, China's economic and trade cooperation with countries along the "Belt and Road" continued to advance, with a total import and export of 2.12 trillion yuan, up 10.1% year on year, driving the overall growth of China's import and export by 3.1 percentage points; China's imports and exports to other RCEP members increased by 3.1% year on year.

Third, private enterprises continue to act as the "main force" of foreign trade. In the first two months, there were 339000 private enterprises with import and export performance, a year-on-year increase of 4.8%, with a total import and export of 3.16 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.3%, accounting for 51.2% of China's total import and export value, 3 percentage points higher than the same period last year, which played a positive role in stabilizing the scale and optimizing the structure of foreign trade.