CCTV News:Today (10th) morning, the General Administration of Customs announced the import and export of China’s foreign trade in the first five months of this year. Data show that in the first five months of this year, the total import and export value of China’s foreign trade reached 12.1 trillion yuan, up 4.1% year-on-year, and foreign trade continued to maintain a good momentum of steady growth.
Customs statistics show that in the first five months of this year, China’s foreign trade import and export was 12.1 trillion yuan, up 4.1% year-on-year, of which 6.5 trillion yuan was exported, up 6.1%, and 5.6 trillion yuan was imported, up 1.8%.
Li Kuiwen, director of the General Statistics Department of the General Administration of Customs, said that in the first five months of this year, China’s foreign trade import and export continued to grow steadily. In the face of the slowdown of world economic growth and international trade, the general trend of China’s economic stability and long-term improvement has not changed. The fundamentals of China’s economic development with strong resilience, great potential and sufficient stamina have not changed. In particular, the effects of a series of policies and measures such as stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment have gradually emerged, and the business environment has been continuously optimized, which has laid a solid foundation for China’s foreign trade development.
In Shanghai, a big data platform for cross-border trade management collects more than 700 million pieces of data from production, trade, logistics, taxation, industry and commerce, foreign exchange and other parties, and seamlessly connects with "single window", shipping companies and port departments.
Zhang Lei, director of Shanghai Customs’ Big Data Cloud Center, said that this big data platform summarizes various information such as financial information, goods information and enterprise information. It is through this information that we can make law-abiding enterprises more convenient and goods can be released in seconds.
Through this new mode of intelligent customs clearance, enterprises can not only make their own decisions in declare in advance, but also arrange the plan of container lifting in advance, so as to realize "preferential booking" and "berthing for direct lifting". Foreign trade is becoming more and more convenient, and the steady growth of imports and exports has also been consolidated. In May, China’s foreign trade import and export value was 2.59 trillion yuan, up 2.9% year-on-year. Among them, exports were 1.43 trillion yuan, up 7.7% year-on-year, and imports were 1.16 trillion yuan, down 2.5% year-on-year.
Li Kuiwen, director of the General Statistics Department of the General Administration of Customs, said that according to customs statistics, exports increased by 7.7% in May, 2 percentage points faster than the previous four months, which became a highlight of foreign trade development.