Foreign Trade News: The Growth Rate Ranks First In Zhejiang Province, The Main Foreign Trade Province In The East Coast

Recently, the reporter learned from Hangzhou Customs that Zhejiang's total import and export value in the first quarter was 1.08 trillion yuan, an increase of 24.4% over the same period (the same below). Among them, the total export value was 787.19 billion yuan, an increase of 28.3%, and the total import value was 288.96 billion yuan, an increase of 14.8%. Our province's import and export, export and import growth rate ranked first among the major foreign trade provinces and cities in the eastern coastal areas.

"Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Zhejiang's foreign trade has continued to grow steadily, and its share of the whole country has risen steadily. In the first quarter of this year, the import and export of foreign trade has greatly exceeded the level of the first quarter of 2019." Lu Haisheng, director of the statistical analysis department of Hangzhou Customs, said that in the first quarter, Zhejiang contributed 23.2%, 28.1% and 12.8% to the growth of China's foreign trade import and export, export and import, ranking first, first and fourth respectively in China.

Under multiple pressures, the export situation of major commodities is good. In the first quarter, seven major categories of goods in labor-intensive industries achieved double-digit growth, and the export value exceeded the same period level in 2019 before the epidemic. The export of mechanical and electrical products in the province reached 353.26 billion yuan, an increase of 24.5%, accounting for 44.9% of the total export value of the province, driving the export growth of the province by 11.3 percentage points, of which the export of solar cells reached 20.59 billion yuan, an increase of 2.0 times, driving the export growth of the province by 2.2 percentage points. "More and more countries are focusing on PV in their renewable energy plans, and our companies have increased their orders in Europe and Asia." Introduced by xieqihong, general manager of Jiaxing atlas Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd.

The trade "circle of friends" is more diversified, and the import and export of our province to the main trade markets are growing. In the first quarter, Zhejiang imported and exported 180.92 billion yuan, 158.69 billion yuan and 138.12 billion yuan to the European Union, the United States and ASEAN, the top three trade markets, respectively, with an increase of 30.7%, 26.2% and 18.3% respectively, accounting for 44.4% of the province's total import and export value, and contributing 45.9% to the province's import and export growth. In the same period, the total value of imports and exports along the "belt and road" increased by 35.3 billion yuan, accounting for 1.38 billion yuan. Imports and exports to other RCEP member countries reached 262.44 billion yuan, an increase of 14.3%, accounting for 24.4% of the total import and export value of the whole province.

In the face of all kinds of uncertainties, a series of policies and measures, such as tax reduction and fee reduction, optimization of business environment and so on, continued to take effect, effectively stimulating the vitality of the main body of the foreign trade market. In the first quarter, the number of foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance in Zhejiang reached 78000, an increase of 7.3%, an increase of 14899, or 23.5%, compared with the same period in 2019. In addition, in the first quarter, the import and export of Zhejiang specialized and special new "little giant" enterprises reached 16.56 billion yuan, an increase of 90.2%, driving the import and export growth of the whole province by 0.9 percentage points. The export performance of Zhejiang's own brands was brilliant, with the export of 134.14 billion yuan in the first quarter, an increase of 44.4%, accounting for 17.0% of the total export value of the province, an increase of 1.9 percentage points, and a 6.7% increase in the export of the whole province.