Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 26 (Reporters Yu Jiaxin and Wang Yuxiao) Do you know the value of goods imported and exported from my country per minute?
The answer is 60 million yuan.
This is the data the reporter learned from the Ministry of Commerce on the 26th.
Given the impact of the global epidemic, such data is hard-won.
According to the Ministry of Commerce, China’s foreign trade has embarked on a beautiful reversal curve this year, with both total import and export volume and international market share reaching record highs.
my country has stabilized the main body of foreign trade, the industrial chain supply chain and the international market share, and has also stabilized the basic foreign capital market.
From January to September, the cumulative growth rate of my country's foreign trade turned from negative to positive for the first time during the year, up 0.7% year-on-year; from January to October, the growth rate of foreign trade increased to 1.1%; entering November, the growth rate continued to expand.
The Ministry of Commerce predicts that my country's total import and export volume this year is expected to reach about 32 trillion yuan, an increase of 30% over 2015.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, my country's status as a major country in trade in goods has been consolidated.
In addition, the share of imports and exports in the international market has further increased.
From 2016 to 2019, the average annual growth rate of my country's trade in goods reached 7.5%, 1.9 percentage points higher than that of the global trade.
According to WTO data calculations, my country’s international market share will further increase this year and will exceed the historical high of 13.8% in 2015.
Import and export also promote consumption and industrial upgrading.
Nowadays, imported products have entered tens of thousands of households, the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot area has increased to 105, the import and export scale has reached five times that at the end of the "12th Five-Year Plan", and more than 1,800 overseas warehouses have been built by enterprises in the area, becoming an important node and New type of foreign trade infrastructure.
The door to the opening of the hyper-scale market is opening wider and wider.
Statistics from the Ministry of Commerce show that my country's foreign trade circle of friends has expanded to more than 230 countries and regions.
Continue to maintain the status of the world's second largest importer, and the overall level of import tariffs dropped by 2.3 percentage points to 7.5%.
The proportion of consumer goods imports increased by 2.8 percentage points to 10.6%. The recovery of the Chinese market has driven the turnover of many foreign brands of consumer goods back to pre-epidemic levels.