Promoting Stability and Improving Quality through Foreign Trade, Enhancing Market Competitiveness of New Products, Becoming a New Highlight in Foreign Trade Growth, Foreign Trade | News | Market
CCTV News: At a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on July 17th, spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics, Fu Linghui, introduced that in the first half of 2023, China's foreign trade import and export scale exceeded 20.1 trillion yuan, setting a new high. In the next stage, although the pressure of external demand contraction continues, China's foreign trade is still expected to withstand the pressure and fully achieve the goal of promoting stability and improving quality.
In the first half of 2023, China's total import and export of goods reached 20101.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.1%, of which exports increased by 3.7%.
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Our country has a complete industrial system, relatively complete supporting facilities, strong industrial organization capabilities and supply chain resilience, which have laid a solid foundation for the development of foreign trade. In the first half of the year, China's traditional export products continued to grow, with the export value of mechanical and electrical products increasing by 6.3% year-on-year.
China will unswervingly expand opening up, expand economic and trade exchanges with countries around the world on the basis of mutual benefit and win-win results, promote the joint construction of the "the Belt and Road", promote the construction of free trade zones, and expand foreign trade growth space. In the first half of the year, China's imports and exports to countries along the "the Belt and Road" increased by 9.8%, while those to Africa and Latin America increased by 10.5% and 7% respectively.
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New growth points in foreign trade are gradually forming. With the upgrading and development of China's industries, the market competitiveness of new products has steadily improved, becoming a new highlight in promoting foreign trade growth. At the same time, the rapid development of new forms of foreign trade such as cross-border e-commerce has also created favorable conditions for the improvement and expansion of foreign trade.
Spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics, Fu Linghui: It should also be noted that various regions and departments are actively implementing various measures to stabilize the scale and optimize the structure of foreign trade, helping foreign trade operators to actively respond to the contraction of external demand. Seizing market opportunities and stabilizing import and export trade, in the first half of the year, the import and export of private enterprises increased by 8.9% year-on-year, playing a positive role in stabilizing foreign trade.
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