reporter learned from Quanzhou Customs : From January to August, the total import and export value of Quanzhou City was 183.75 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), an increase of 6.4% year-on-year, continuing to show a stable growth trend. Among them, exports were 133.99 billion yuan, down 0.3%; imports were 49.76 billion yuan, up 29.8%. In August, with the active support of the previous series of policies to stabilize foreign trade, the city's total import and export value was 27.04 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.4% and a month-on-month increase of 23.9%.
│Shihu Port (photo by Chen Xiaoyang)
From the perspective of trade methods, general trade import and export accounts for 70%. From January to August, the city's general trade imports and exports were 133.87 billion yuan, an increase of 19.7%, accounting for 72.9% of the total foreign trade value; market procurement imports and exports were 36.24 billion yuan, an increase of 11.3%, accounting for 19.7% of the total foreign trade value.
From the perspective of the nature of the enterprise, the main position of private enterprises is highlighted. From January to August, the city's private enterprises imported and exported 118.75 billion yuan, accounting for 64.6% of the total foreign trade value; foreign-invested enterprises imported and exported 60.4 billion yuan, an increase of 43.1%, accounting for 32.9%.
From the perspective of trading partners, Quanzhou has increased significantly to the import and export of the four major trading partners. From January to August, imports and exports to ASEAN countries, Saudi , the United States, and the European Union were 48.31 billion yuan, 30.47 billion yuan, 22.35 billion yuan and 21.28 billion yuan respectively, an increase of 11.2%, 42.9%, 9.1% and 18.1% year-on-year, accounting for 26.3%, 16.6%, 12.2% and 11.6% of the total foreign trade value of Quanzhou respectively. It is particularly worth noting that imports and exports to countries along the "Belt and Road" were 99.81 billion yuan, an increase of 19.4% year-on-year, accounting for 53.7% of Quanzhou's total foreign trade value.
From the perspective of major import and export commodities, export labor-intensive products have slightly decreased, and imported crude oil, agricultural products and food have increased significantly. In terms of exports, from January to August, Quanzhou exported 72.12 billion yuan of labor-intensive products, a decrease of 1.3%, of which the export of shoes and boots was the only one that stood out to 17.6 billion yuan, an increase of 32.1%. In terms of imports, the imported crude oil, agricultural products and food from January to August were RMB 32.29 billion, RMB 4.02 billion and RMB 3.47 billion, respectively, an increase of 59%, 51.3% and 64.6% respectively.
□Source: Quanzhou Evening News
□Reporter: Liu Qian
