Steady and excellent foreign trade in Xinjiang is strong

Pomegranate/Xinjiang Daily reporter Chen Qiangqi

According to the statistics of Urumqi Customs on September 11, in August, the Xinjiang Foreign Trade Reverse Echithemer continued to maintain a high -speed growth, achieving a total import and export value of 30.1 billion yuan, an increase of 119.3%year -on -year, which was 110.7 percentage points higher than the national growth rate. The history of imports and exports is new, and the growth rate ranks second in the country.

Faced with the epidemic of new crown pneumonia, Xinjiang's foreign trade growth has not declined, and the growth rate is at the forefront of the country. What should I look at this phenomenon? Behind the growth, what development logic of Xinjiang's foreign trade is highlighted?

Stability: North -South Xinjiang Coordinated Development

Since the beginning of this year, in the face of a complex and severe foreign trade development environment, the autonomous region has efficiently coordinating the prevention and control of the epidemic and economic and social development, and continued to introduce a series of policies for stabilizing foreign trade to promote foreign trade to maintain stability and improve quality.

In the first August, the total value of Xinjiang's foreign trade imports and exports was 145.58 billion yuan, an increase of 49.6%year -on -year, an increase of 39.5 percentage points higher than the national average of the same period, ranking third in the country. Among them, the export value of Xinjiang was 120.94 billion yuan, an increase of 58.2%year -on -year, and 44 percentage points higher than the national growth rate; the import value was 24.64 billion yuan, an increase of 18%year -on -year, which was 12.8 percentage points higher than the national growth rate.

On September 7, Hongqirafu Customs officers were checked. Correspondent Su Li Photo

"From the previous August data, it can be seen that the growth of foreign trade against an epidemic in August is a reflection of the results of the autonomous region adopting a series of foreign trade and maintaining the results of the policy. It is an inevitable accumulation of foreign trade this year." Essence

Xinjiang's foreign trade data also released more important signals. In August, 10 prefectures in the northern Xinjiang foreign trade army in the northern Xinjiang foreign trade in Urumqi, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, and Boltala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture were still the main force of Xinjiang. The foreign trade in the Kashgar region, the Aksu area, the Hetian area, and the Payin Guo Leng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in the southern Xinjiang have grown significantly, and the import and export values ​​increased by 81.5%, 62.1%, 39.2%, and 57.1%year -on -year.

"Generally speaking, the foreign trade in North and South Xinjiang presents a cooperative development trend." Wu Wei said that compared with the previous data, the foreign trade in the South Xinjiang region continued to make efforts, accounting for the proportion of the total import and export value of the whole Xinjiang. 25.6%in August. Judging from the overall development process of the entire Xinjiang foreign trade in the past two years, the fact that the growth momentum of foreign trade in southern Xinjiang, the fact that the differences in foreign trade in North and South Xinjiang have been narrowed, which is of great significance.

Chang: The port should be opened

Xinjiang is a large part of the port. It has been built and opened to open 17 ports. These ports are the advantages of Xinjiang's foreign trade development, and it is also a window for the country to open the large logistics channel westward.

The Alashankou Station was in the formation of the Central EU trains to be released. Correspondent Chen Qian

On September 10th, a column full of car accessories, electronic products, and clothing department stores "Yuxin Europe" Central and European trains went out of the country through the Alashankou Station to Marasevich Station, Poland. This day happened to be an Alashankou port opening the railway rapid customs clearance business for a whole year.

Xu Yueheng, deputy chief of the Second Section of Alashankou Customs Supervision, said that in the "Railway Express" model, the average tranchers' overall clearance operation at the port was reduced by an average of 4 hours, saving the operating cost for enterprises.

The autonomous region has always attached great importance to the prevention of epidemic prevention and keeping the public. Eight departments including the Business Department of the Autonomous Region and Urumqi Customs carried out 17 ports of foreign trade guarantee and full coverage survey, and proposed 21 cases of landing measures to carry out the special operation of the April Port Baochang. It should be made in, fast forward and fast out.

Overcoming difficulties throughout the Xinjiang, strengthen daily monitoring and early warning of the port operation, extend the time of port operation, and improve the efficiency of port operation. In the first August, the total number of transportation and exports of railway, highway, and aviation totaling a total of 18.7623 million tons, an increase of 30.3%compared with the same period in 2019. Among them, the import and export volume of the railway port increased by 41.2%compared with the same period in 2019. The Alashankou and Horgos Railway Port passed the Central Europe (Central Asia) trains 8701, a year -on -year increase of 6.5%, a record high.

Excellent: Stable optimization of foreign trade structure

"Xinjiang Foreign Trade shows the sharp growth of traditional markets and emerging market trade, the continuous efforts of various trade methods and the continuous development of the opening platform, the supporting role of private enterprises for Xinjiang's foreign trade development, and steadily optimizing the product structure." Wu Wei said.

In the first August, Xinjiang's import and export value to the five countries in Central Asia was 1111.6 billion yuan, an increase of 54.7%year -on -year, accounting for 76.4%of the total import and export value of Xinjiang's foreign trade during the same period; Increased by 54.7%, accounting for 90.8%of the total import and export value of Xinjiang's foreign trade; the national import and export value of the RCEP (regional comprehensive economic partnership) increased by 27.1%year -on -year.

From the data of the previous August, Xinjiang export products were mainly concentrated in labor -intensive products and mechanical and electrical products, and the two accounted for 82.6%of the total value of Xinjiang's foreign trade exports. Benefiting from the continuous growth of market demand in Europe and the development of enterprises in the Central Asian market, the new energy industry has continued to maintain a good situation of rapid exports.

"Especially the exports of new energy commodities such as lithium batteries, electric carrier vehicles, solar batteries such as solar batteries have increased significantly." Wu Wei said that high value -added products in export products have begun to increase, which reflects the development of Xinjiang's new energy industry.

The autonomous region continues to cultivate open platforms such as comprehensive bonded zones and eight national foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases, and use the comprehensive insurance area to cultivate and strengthen the function of exported industrial clusters.In August, the import and export of Kashgar, Alashankou, Horgos, and Urumqi Comprehensive Free Trade Zone in total was 43.06 billion yuan, an increase of 406.1%year -on -year, accounting for 29.6%of the total import and export value of Xinjiang's foreign trade.Since the beginning of this year, the autonomous region has continued to optimize the business environment, the policy dividend has been continuously released, and the vitality of the enterprise's development is activated.In the first August, private enterprises realized the import and export value of 130.94 billion yuan, an increase of 59.8%year -on -year, accounting for 89.9%of the total import and export value of Xinjiang's foreign trade in the same period. Private enterprises' support for the development of Xinjiang's foreign trade was prominent.The growth rate of import and export value of foreign -invested enterprises also increased sharply, an increase of 82.9%year -on -year.

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