Why does the Yangtze River Delta occupy 5 seats? , a record high! Top ten export cities in the first 4 months

Recently, reporters learned from the warm-up press briefing of the Yangtze River Delta region’s main leaders’ symposium that in 2023, the GDP of three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta exceeded 30 trillion yuan for the first time, accounting for 24.4% of the country’s total; at the same time, 10,000 people in the Yangtze River Delta region There are 9 billion cities, accounting for more than one-third of the country's total. In the first quarter of this year, the Yangtze River Delta's GDP reached 7.4 trillion yuan, accounting for about 25% of the country's total. Its main indicators continue to lead the country and continue to shoulder the important task of being the ballast of our country's economy.

The Yangtze River Delta is also a key foreign trade area in my country. In the first four months of this year, the total foreign trade import and export value of the Yangtze River Delta region reached 5.04 trillion yuan, a record high, a year-on-year increase of 5.6%, accounting for 36.5% of the country's total import and export value. If export volume is used as a comparative indicator and compared with the country's important foreign trade cities, in the first four months of this year, the Yangtze River Delta occupied 5 of the top ten export cities in the country: Shanghai, Suzhou, and Ningbo respectively with 553.07 billion yuan, 492.6 billion yuan, The export volume of 277.81 billion yuan ranks second, third and fourth in the country. Jinhua, represented by Yiwu, ranks sixth with 230.23 billion yuan. Hangzhou, which has developed cross-border e-commerce in full swing in recent years, ranks ninth with an export volume of 167.38 billion yuan. Compared with the annual export volume in 2023, the rankings of the top three cities remained stable, with Ningbo replacing Dongguan in fourth place.

In the first four months of this year, Shanghai's total import and export value was 1.39 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.1%. Among them, the import and export value in April was 357.25 billion yuan, an increase of 4.2%. The foreign trade situation continued to pick up. The good news is that from the perspective of trading countries, Shanghai's imports and exports to ASEAN have turned from decline to increase, and its imports and exports to other BRICS countries have maintained double-digit growth. In the first four months, Shanghai's imports and exports to ASEAN were 183.17 billion yuan, a decrease of 2.5% in the first quarter to an increase of 2.5%, accounting for 13.2% of Shanghai's total imports and exports in the same period. ASEAN became Shanghai's second largest trade after the EU partner.

Let’s look at Suzhou again. From January to April, Suzhou's total import and export value was 803.37 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%, of which export value was 492.60 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3%. In contrast, Suzhou's total import and export volume fell by 15.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of last year. In the first quarter of this year, Suzhou's foreign trade import and export increased by 9.6% year-on-year. The growth rate in the first four months was still 0.5 percentage points higher than the first quarter, which shows that "the strongest prefecture-level "City" continues to make a strong comeback. In terms of main export commodities, mechanical and electrical products accounted for nearly 80%. The city's exports of mechanical and electrical products were 387.85 billion yuan, an increase of 9.1%, accounting for 78.7% of the city's total export value. Among them, the export of integrated circuits was 43.42 billion yuan, an increase of 48.1%, driving export growth by 3.1 percentage points; among the "three new items", electric vehicles increased by 8.4 times. From a country perspective, ASEAN's total import and export volume in the first four months has surpassed that of the United States - Suzhou's import and export to ASEAN was 125.11 billion yuan, an increase of 11.5%; and its import and export to the United States was 114.23 billion yuan, an increase of 2.1%.

Last year, Ningbo's foreign trade data grew by less than 1% year-on-year. Behind this year's foreign trade data, private enterprises have made outstanding contributions. From January to April, Ningbo's import and export volume reached 436.48 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3%, reaching a record high for the same period in history, of which exports were 277.81 billion yuan, an increase of 5.6%. Private enterprises are the main force in import and export, achieving import and export of 324.92 billion yuan, an increase of 8.9%, accounting for 74.4% of the city's total import and export. Exports of mechanical and electrical products were 158.85 billion yuan, an increase of 5.1%, accounting for 57.2% of total exports, of which household appliances and general machinery and equipment increased by 12.2% and 21.6% respectively.

Last year, Hangzhou surpassed Chongqing, Chengdu, and Tianjin, entering the top ten foreign trade thresholds, and ranked first among the top ten cities in terms of total import and export volume with a growth rate of 6.1%. From January to April this year, Hangzhou's import and export volume was 257.31 billion yuan, an increase of 4.5% over the same period in 2023, of which exports were 167.38 billion yuan, an increase of 0.8%. From January to April, Hangzhou exported 81.14 billion yuan of mechanical and electrical products, an increase of 6.5%; and exported 26.72 billion yuan of high-tech products, an increase of 5.3%, of which exports of security products were 7.33 billion yuan, an increase of 2.8%. In addition, the export of medical materials and drugs was 2.77 billion yuan, an increase of 8.4%. During the same period, the European Union, the United States, and Latin America ranked as Hangzhou's top three trading partners, with Latin America growing by 32.8%.

In recent years, the foreign trade of Jinhua, the second largest foreign trade city in Zhejiang, has developed rapidly. In the first four months, Jinhua ranked second among the top ten foreign trade companies with an export growth rate of 16%. Among them, Yiwu, which focuses on small commodity exports, usually accounts for nearly 80% of Jinhua's exports. As the 2024 Paris Olympics approaches, in the first four months, Yiwu's total import and export value reached 201.06 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.0%; exports were 176.38 billion yuan, A year-on-year increase of 19.9%; imports were 24.68 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.5%. During the same period, Yiwu's import and export volume to Africa, Latin America and ASEAN increased by 19.0%, 34.9% and 38.7% respectively year-on-year.