despite unprecedented difficulties and challenges, china's foreign trade import and export still handed over a brilliant answer. according to the data released by the general administration of customs on january 14, the total import and export value of china's goods trade in 2020 was 32.16 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.9% over 2019. among them, the export was 17.93 trillion yuan, an increase of 4%; imports were 14.23 trillion yuan, down 0.7%; the trade surplus was 3.7 trillion yuan, an increase of 27.4%
china took the lead in achieving positive growth in trade in goods
in 2020, china became the only major economy in the world to achieve positive growth in trade in goods. its foreign trade import and export were significantly better than expected, and the scale of foreign trade reached a new record high. "this fully reflects the strong toughness and comprehensive competitiveness of china's foreign trade. it can be said that it has achieved both stable growth and quality improvement." li kuiwen said
"stable growth" is mainly reflected in three aspects: first, the import and export scale and international market share hit a new record; second, epidemic prevention materials and "housing economy" products promoted rapid export growth; third, china's domestic super large-scale market has provided strong support for expanding imports
thanks to the strong and effective prevention and control of china's covid-19, and the steady progress in the resumption of work and production, china's foreign trade quickly stabilized after experiencing a sharp shock in the first quarter in 2020, and the export has maintained a growth trend for nine consecutive months since april. with the sharp contraction of global trade, the total value of imports and exports and international market share of the whole year reached a record high, and china's position as the largest country in goods trade has been further consolidated. at the same time, china's super large-scale market advantage is more obvious, and the import demand is stable. in 2020, china's imports of resource-based products such as crude oil and metal ore increased by 7.3% and 7% respectively, and the imports of agricultural products such as grain and meat increased by 28% and 60.4% respectively
"quality improvement" is reflected in the further optimization of foreign trade structure, the further enhancement of development momentum and the obvious driving effect of high-level open platform. the proportion of import and export of general trade continued to increase, the regional development of foreign trade was more balanced, and new progress was made in the central and western regions in undertaking industrial transfer from the east. in addition, the import and export of the comprehensive bonded zone increased by 17.4%, the import and export of the pilot free trade zone increased by 10.7%, and the import of duty-free goods of hainan free trade port increased by 80.5%
in 2020, china europe trains operated 12400 trains and sent 1.135 million teus, with a year-on-year increase of 50% and 56% respectively. the comprehensive heavy container rate reached 98.4%, which played an important role in maintaining the stable operation of the global industrial chain supply chain
the new business form and mode of foreign trade performed brilliantly
during the new year's day holiday, the cross-border e-commerce supervision site of nanjing airport was busy. under the supervision of nanjing customs, 35000 tickets of textile and clothing, daily consumer goods and other commodities passed through the customs smoothly during the new year's day holiday. nanjing ushered in a "good start" for cross-border e-commerce exports in 2021
not only nanjing, hangzhou, qingdao, guangzhou and other ports have ushered in a small peak of cross-border e-commerce exports, continuing the trend of rapid growth of cross-border e-commerce since 2020. as one of the new forms of foreign trade, china's cross-border e-commerce import and export has become an important force in stabilizing foreign trade
in 2020, china checked and released 2.45 billion import and export bills through the customs cross-border e-commerce management platform, an increase of 63.3% year-on-year. according to preliminary statistics, china's cross-border e-commerce import and export in 2020 was 1.69 trillion yuan, an increase of 31.1%, of which export was 1.12 trillion yuan, an increase of 40.1%, and import was 0.57 trillion yuan, an increase of 16.5%
in order to actively adapt to and promote the development of cross-border e-commerce, the customs has continuously innovated and optimized the supervision system and taken a series of accurate and effective measures to support the orderly development of cross-border e-commerce and other new business forms. " for example, li kuiwen said, for example, the customs comprehensively promoted the supervision measures for the return of cross-border e-commerce export commodities, fully supported cross-border e-commerce export enterprises to "sell the world", and innovatively carried out the pilot of cross-border e-commerce enterprise to enterprise (b2b) export, so as to promote the innovative achievements of cross-border e-commerce supervision from b2c to b2b
affected by the epidemic, international flights were suspended and classes were reduced in a large area in 2020, and the traditional transport capacity decreased sharply. the general administration of customs issued 10 measures to support the development of china eu trains in time, and supported the use of china eu train capacity to carry out cross-border e-commerce, mail and other transport businesses. since the outbreak, the customs has supported the postal authorities in opening temporary entry and exit postal routes, opening a total of 15 temporary exit ports and 13 temporary entry ports, actively distributing inbound and outbound mail and cross-border e-commerce commodities, and making every effort to ensure the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain. "in the next step, the customs will continue to focus on the development of new business forms and enterprise concerns, continue to strengthen supervision, optimize services, and constantly promote the high-quality development of new business forms of cross-border e-commerce." li kuiwen said
fully support the high-quality development of private enterprises
in 2020, the import and export growth rate of china's private enterprises was 9.2 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of china's foreign trade in the same period, becoming an important driving force for the growth of china's foreign trade import and export
in 2020, the total export value of prevention and control materials reached 438.5 billion yuan, of which 224.2 billion masks were exported, which is equivalent to providing nearly 40 masks for everyone in the world except china. in addition, china also exported 2.31 billion pieces of protective clothing, 289million pairs of goggles, 271000 sets of respirators and 1.08 billion copies of novel coronavirus detection kits
"we have taken the lead in resuming work and production in an all-round way and are the largest supplier of anti epidemic materials. while meeting the needs of domestic epidemic prevention and control, we have exported epidemic prevention and control materials to most countries or regions in the world to effectively support the global fight against the covid-19 epidemic. among them, the majority of private enterprises have played an important role." li kuiwen said
it is reported that as the largest foreign trade body in china, private enterprises will achieve import and export of 14.98 trillion yuan in 2020, an increase of 11.1%, accounting for 46.6% of china's total foreign trade, an increase of 3.9 percentage points over 2019. especially in the epidemic situation examination, private enterprises rose to the difficulties, gave full play to the advantages of flexible production and operation, actively explored the international market, and demonstrated the toughness of china's foreign trade development
the endogenous driving force of foreign trade development of private enterprises has been continuously strengthened, and the market development has been continuously strengthened. in 2020, china's private enterprises' exports to traditional markets such as the european union, the united states, japan and south korea increased by 14.9%, 23.4%, 12.9% and 18.6% respectively, and exports to asean increased by 15.1%, all of which achieved double-digit growth. meanwhile, the foreign trade growth rate of private enterprises in the central and western regions reached 15.9%, 5.6 percentage points higher than that in the eastern region. (reporter gu yang)