China News Service Harbin, April 20 (Zhang Hao, Jiang Hui) On the 20th, Harbin Customs announced that in the first quarter of 2020, the total import and export value of Heilongjiang Province to Russia was 31.65 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 3%. It accounts for 70% of the province's total import and export value. Among them, exports to Russia were 1.65 billion yuan, down 6.7% year-on-year; imports from Russia were 30 billion yuan, up 3.6% year-on-year. Mutual political trust, adjacent ports, convenient transportation, and strong industrial complementarity have become the main reasons why Heilongjiang Province's trade with Russia continued to grow during the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic.
According to Harbin customs statistics, in the first quarter of 2020, the total value of imports and exports of goods trade in Heilongjiang Province was 45.22 billion yuan, which was the same as last year and 6.4 percentage points higher than the growth rate of China's imports and exports during the same period. Among them, exports were 7.06 billion yuan, down 10.4% year-on-year; imports were 38.16 billion yuan, up 2.2% year-on-year.
Pipeline crude oil, natural gas and other resource commodities were less affected by the epidemic, driving import growth. In the first quarter of 2020, pipeline crude oil imports in Heilongjiang Province were 23.98 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.1%, accounting for 62.8% of the total import value; pipeline natural gas imports were 1.26 billion yuan, which was newly added, and the above two totaled 66.1% of the total import value , Highlighting the advantages of relatively convenient, safe and stable pipeline transportation.
At the end of last year, China imposed tariff exclusions on some soybeans imported from the United States, which led to a significant rebound in Heilongjiang ’s soybean imports from the United States in the first quarter. In the first quarter, Heilongjiang Province imported 277,000 tons of soybeans from the United States, worth 760 million yuan, accounting for 54.5% of the province ’s total soybean imports, and returned to the same level as before the Sino-US trade friction.
As the epidemic continues to spread around the world, Heilongjiang's external demand is further reduced, internal resumption of work and marketing activities cannot be carried out normally, and the upstream and downstream of mechanical and electrical products and labor-intensive industries have been significantly affected. In the first quarter, the export of mechanical and electrical products in Heilongjiang Province was 2.95 billion yuan, down 14.8% year-on-year; the export of labor-intensive products was 980 million yuan, down 22.9% year-on-year. (Finish)