Right now, it is the harvest season of Gansu white onions. The local fruit and vegetable company signed an export order for a year early. The preferential policies brought by the “Belt and Road Initiative” have injected new vitality into the traditional industries in the central and western regions.
Li Quan, the customs chief of Lanzhou Customs: From January to July, Gansu’s import and export of countries along the “Belt and Road” increased by nearly 10 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of more than 40%.
The export of traditional specialty products in the central and western regions has increased, and the export of high-tech products in the eastern coastal areas has also increased significantly. In Xiamen, the world's largest ship crane exported to the Netherlands received an order of US$188 million with international leading technology.
Xiamen Customs is under the jurisdiction of Haishu Customs Commissioner Liu Yangwu: Since the beginning of this year, Xiamen's import and export of countries along the “Belt and Road” has maintained a double-digit growth year-on-year.
According to customs statistics, in the first seven months of this year, China’s import and export of goods was 16.72 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.6%. Among them, China's foreign trade import and export along the “Belt and Road” countries was 4.57 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.3%. The growth rate was 2.7 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of China's foreign trade during the same period, and it has become a new driving force for China's foreign trade development.
Huang Weiping, Director of the General Statistics Department of the General Administration of Customs: Since the beginning of this year, China's foreign trade import and export has been steadily improving. It has maintained rapid growth in the first seven months, and the growth rate has accelerated by 0.7 percentage points over the first half of the year. At the same time, domestic demand is improving, China is actively expanding imports, the trade surplus is narrowing, and the development of imports and exports is more balanced.
