General Administration of Customs: In the first half of the year, the import and export of cargo trade 1.98 trillion yuan increased by 9.4% year -on -year

Cover news reporter Teng Yan

On July 13, Li Kuiwen, a spokesman for the General Administration of Customs and Director of Statistics, revealed that the total value of China's goods trade import and export in the first half of the year was 1.98 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.4%year -on -year.

On the same day, the National New Office held a press conference in the first half of 2022. Li Kuiwen introduced that in the first half of the year, China exported 11.14 trillion yuan, an increase of 13.2%; imports were 8.66 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.8%.

▲ Li Kuiwen, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs and Director of Statistics Analysis (Picture Source: Guoxin.com)

Since May, with the overall domestic epidemic situation, the effect of stable growth policy has gradually emerged, and the resumption of labor and re -production of foreign trade enterprises has been promoted in an orderly manner, especially in the Yangtze River Delta and other regions to recover rapidly, driving the overall growth rate of foreign trade to rise significantly. In May, foreign trade imports and exports increased by 9.5%year -on -year, the growth rate accelerated by 9.4 percentage points from April, and the growth rate of June increased further to 14.3%.

In the first half of the year, general trade imports and exports were 1.271 trillion yuan, an increase of 13.1%, accounting for 64.2%of the total foreign trade import and export value, an increase of 2.1 percentage points year -on -year. Among them, exports were 7.16 trillion yuan, an increase of 19%, imports of 5.55 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.5%. During the same period, the processing trade imports and exports were 4.02 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.2%.

In the first half of the year, 2.95 trillion, 2.71 trillion, and 2.47 trillion yuan were imported and exported to ASEAN, the European Union, and the United States, an increase of 10.6%, 7.5%, and 11.7%, respectively. During the same period, imports and exports of RCEP trading partners along the “Belt and Road” increased by 17.8%and 5.6%, respectively.

In the first half of the year, China had 506,000 foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance, an increase of 5.5%year -on -year. Among them, 425,000 private enterprises, an increase of 6.9%, 9.82 trillion yuan in imports and exports, an increase of 13.6%, accounting for 49.6%of the total foreign trade import and export value, an increase of 1.9 percentage points year -on -year. During the same period, foreign -invested enterprises imported and exported 675 trillion yuan, an increase of 2.1%. The export of state -owned enterprises was 3.2 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.2%.

In terms of main products, in the first half of the year, the import and export of mechanical and electrical products was 9.72 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.2%, accounting for 49.1%of the total foreign trade import and export value. The import and export of agricultural products was 1.04 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.3%, accounting for 5.2%. During the same period, the export of labor -intensive products was 1.99 trillion yuan, an increase of 13.5%, accounting for 17.8%of the total export value. Energy products such as crude oil, natural gas, and coal imports totaling 1.48 trillion yuan, an increase of 53.1%, accounting for 17.1%of the total import value.

"In general, the foreign trade import and export in the first half of the year showed a strong toughness. In the first quarter, it started steadily. In May, June reversed the growth rate of the growth rate in April, laying a solid foundation for the overall foreign trade stability and improvement." Li Kuiwen It is said that at present, the epidemic and international environment of the new crown pneumonia become more severe and complicated, and the development of foreign trade is still facing unstable and uncertain factors, and the stability and quality are facing a lot of pressure. However, we must also see that China's economic toughness, sufficient potential, and long -term good fundamentals have not changed. With the implementation of a policies and measures for the stability of the economy, the re -production and resumption of production have been promoted in an orderly manner, and foreign trade is still expected to maintain stable growth.

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