From January to August, the total value of the import and export of goods trade in Chengdu increased by 7.1% year-on-year

Cover reporter Ma Mengfei

On September 11, the reporter learned from Chengdu Customs that in the first eight months of this year, the total value of the import and export import and export of the goods trade in Chengdu was 547.07 billion yuan, an increase of 7.1%over the same period last year, accounting for 84.1%of the total value of Sichuan import and export. Among them, exports were 320.52 billion yuan, an increase of 9.1%; imports were 226.55 billion yuan, an increase of 4.3%.

Specifically, in the first eight months, the proportion of processing trade in Chengdu declined, and general trade increased rapidly. General trade imports and exports were 124.66 billion yuan, an increase of 57.8%. In addition, from the perspective of trading partnerships, Chengdu has decreased by 10 % of the import and export of the United States, which is better for imports and exports to countries along the “Belt and Road”.

Private enterprises show strong vitality and toughness, and state -owned enterprises have grown by more than 60 %. In the first eight months, the import and export of Chengdu's private enterprises was 139.85 billion yuan, an increase of 37.6%; the import and export of state -owned enterprises was 43.16 billion yuan, an increase of 63.6%, accounting for 7.9%, an increase of 2.7 percentage points from the same period last year.

From the perspective of products, mechanical and electrical products have dropped slightly, and labor -intensive products exports have grown rapidly. In the first eight months, Chengdu exported mechanical and electrical products were 261.87 billion yuan, a decrease of 0.7%. Chengdu exported labor -intensive products were 23.81 billion yuan, an increase of 73.3%.

In addition, in the first eight months, the imports of mechanical and electrical products such as Chengdu integrated circuits declined slightly, and the imports of metal ore in the metal ore have grown rapidly. Data show that in the first eight months, Chengdu imported mechanical and electrical products 193.73 billion yuan, a decrease of 3.8%, accounting for 85.5%of the total value of Chengdu in the same period. On the other hand, affected by the sharp rise in global energy prices, the import of metal ore was doubled. In the first eight months, Chengdu imported 5.25 billion yuan, an increase of 7.6 times.

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