CCTV news: the Information Office of the State Council held a press conference yesterday (13th), and Li Kuiwen, spokesman of the General Administration of customs, introduced China's foreign trade import and export in the first quarter. Data show that China's foreign trade increased by nearly 30% in the first quarter, achieved positive growth for 10 consecutive months, and import and export continued to maintain a good momentum
in the first quarter of this year, the total value of China's foreign trade import and export was 8.47 trillion yuan, an increase of 29.2% year-on-year. Among them, the export was 4.61 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 38.7%; Imports reached 3.86 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.3%
according to customs statistics, in the first quarter of this year, China's imports and exports to ASEAN, the European Union, the United States and Japan were 1.24 trillion yuan, 1.19 trillion yuan, 1.08 trillion yuan and 561.42 billion yuan respectively, up 26.1%, 36.4%, 61.3% and 20.8% year on year respectively. ASEAN continued to be China's largest trading partner, accounting for 14.7% of China's total foreign trade. Over the same period, China and the" the Belt and Road" The import and export of countries along the line totaled 2.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.4%, accounting for 29.5% of China's total foreign trade import and export value
in the first quarter, China's general trade import and export reached 5.19 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32%. Over the same period, China's export of mechanical and electrical products reached 2.78 trillion yuan, a substantial year-on-year increase of 43%. The structure of China's export products has been continuously optimized to promote the steady increase of foreign trade volume and quality
source of this article: CCTV