China’s foreign trade continues to show good performance, and private enterprises play an outstanding role in pulling foreign trade.

CCTV News:On the morning of June 7, the General Administration of Customs announced the import and export data of China’s foreign trade. In the first five months of this year, China’s foreign trade import and export was 14.76 trillion yuan, up 28.2% year-on-year. From the perspective of monthly import and export, it has maintained the growth momentum for one year in a row.

Customs statistics show that in the first five months of this year, it increased by 28.2% year on year. In May, China’s total import and export value was 3.14 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.9%. Among them, the export was 1.72 trillion yuan, up 18.1% year-on-year; Imports reached 1.42 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.5%.

Li Kuiwen, Director of Statistics and Analysis Department of General Administration of Customs:Since June last year, the monthly import and export of China’s foreign trade has maintained a positive growth for the whole year. Even compared with the same period in 2019 before the epidemic, the growth rate of import and export in the first five months of this year exceeded 20%. The continuous improvement of China’s foreign trade is outstanding, which fully reflects China’s broad market potential and stable supply capacity.

Customs statistics show that in the first five months of this year, the import and export of private enterprises in China was 7.02 trillion yuan, up 38.1% year-on-year, 9.9 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of China’s foreign trade, accounting for 47.6% of China’s total import and export value, up 3.4 percentage points over the same period last year. China’s imports and exports to ASEAN, the European Union, the United States and Japan were 2.19 trillion yuan, 2.06 trillion yuan, 1.82 trillion yuan and 969.79 billion yuan, up 29.2%, 28.7%, 41.3% and 14.9% respectively. Among them, ASEAN is China’s largest trading partner, accounting for 14.8% of China’s total foreign trade. In the same period, China’s imports and exports with countries along the Belt and Road totaled 4.36 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.4%. It accounts for 29.6% of China’s total foreign trade import and export value.

Continuous optimization of export product structure is full of endogenous motivation

According to the data released by the General Administration of Customs on the 7th, in the first five months, China’s private enterprises won the international market through continuous innovation to tap the potential and enhance the new advantages of product competition, and at the same time, it also boosted the rapid growth of China’s foreign trade.

In Chaoshan, Guangdong, a candy company, the production capacity of pop rocks accounts for 50% of the total production capacity of pop rocks in the world.

Hong Yonghong, general manager of a food company in Guangdong:For example, combining pop rocks with milk shells and nuts, and matching pop rocks with toys into a "blind box" have attracted many new overseas orders. At present, the company’s orders have been scheduled for the end of the year.

Small candy can also break into the international market, relying on enterprises to constantly identify the market positioning, innovation and development.

Lian Guoquan, Deputy Director of Food Department of Shantou Customs:1-mdash this year; In May, the food export of eastern Guangdong province, which I closed the supervision service, exceeded 5.1 billion yuan, up 14% year-on-year. The products were exported to more than 150 countries and regions, which became a new bright spot to promote the export growth of eastern Guangdong.

At the same time, reducing the policy dividends from government departments, such as documents, tax reduction and tax rebate, has also continuously contributed to the development of foreign trade. Recently, a total of 51 containers of clothing, electronic products, medical equipment and other products from Nantong, Jiangsu Province took the "Dalian — Moscow "Central European train slowly left Dalian Port and arrived in Moscow about 18 days later. In the past, these goods needed to be transported to Europe from other ports, but now, because Dalian has realized the integrated multimodal transport of "public iron, water and air" in Northeast Asia, the maritime ro-ro ship and the land-based China-Europe train have achieved seamless customs clearance.

Kang erkang, extension business department of a shipping container company in Dalian:From the time of unloading, the goods are put on the Russian market through the China-Europe train, which saves one month compared with the traditional sea transportation.

Liu Weimin, Deputy Director of Logistics Monitoring Department of Dayaowan Customs:Products from Northeast China, East China, South China and other regions are exported to Russia, Germany, France, Czech Republic and other countries through Dalian. The products involve more than a dozen varieties such as mechanical products, electronic products and automobiles, and high value-added products account for 20%.

According to customs statistics, in the first five months of this year, the import and export of private enterprises in China was 7.02 trillion yuan, up 38.1% year-on-year, 9.9 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of China’s foreign trade, accounting for 47.6% of China’s total import and export value, up 3.4 percentage points over the same period last year.

Li Kuiwen, Director of Statistics and Analysis Department of General Administration of Customs:In the first five months, the contribution rate of China’s private enterprises to China’s foreign trade growth was nearly 60%, which played a very prominent role in stimulating foreign trade. Enterprises constantly improve their innovation ability, expand the market and win the market with high-quality and high value-added products, which has simultaneously promoted the high-quality development of China’s foreign trade.

Tap the advantages of foreign trade, diversify the market and be more dynamic.

Customs statistics show that in the first five months of this year, the regional development of China’s foreign trade became more coordinated, and the competitive advantage of foreign trade became more obvious. At the same time, the foreign trade with countries along the Belt and Road maintained a high growth momentum of 27.4%.

These days, this enterprise in Ningbo is rushing to produce a batch of stationery exported to Central and Eastern Europe. These newly developed antibacterial stationery include pens, calculators, correction tapes, etc., which can effectively inhibit more than 98% of five kinds of bacteria, such as Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. As soon as the new product was launched, it was widely welcomed by the international market, and received orders from many foreign medical and financial institutions, which sold well in North America, Europe and other countries and regions.

An Jiang, director of brand culture of a stationery manufacturer in Ningbo:Recently, our products have opened up markets in countries along the Belt and Road, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, which used to be less developed. At present, our sales and exports of antibacterial stationery exceed 710,000 sets, of which 520,000 sets are sold to newly developed markets such as Central and Eastern Europe, with a year-on-year increase of 265.2%.

Ding Laisong, Deputy Section Chief of Haishu Customs Export Section under Ningbo Customs:Since the beginning of this year, Ningbo’s import and export to countries along the "Belt and Road" has increased by about 30%, accounting for nearly 30% of Ningbo’s total import and export value in the same period, of which the import and export to Central and Eastern European countries has increased by nearly 50%.

Looking at the map of the world as an enterprise and going out along the "Belt and Road", the more diversified foreign trade brings mutual benefit and win-win between China and its trading partners. At present, it is the peak season for tropical fruits from Southeast Asia to enter China. At Pingxiang, China’s largest land fruit import and export port on the Sino-Vietnamese border, a cold chain container train full of fruits with Southeast Asian characteristics such as Thailand, Laos and Vietnam entered the country, and the imported fruits were quickly transported to all parts of the country after rapid quarantine inspection by the customs.

Fang Peng, General Manager of Guangxi Baosheng Zongheng International Logistics Co., Ltd.:This year, we have two to three fixed-point classes every day.

Relying on the new land and sea passage in the west, Pingxiang Railway Port imported more than 700 containers of cold-chain fruits from Southeast Asia this year, with a total weight exceeding 10,000 tons.