China News Service, Beijing, August 24 (Xu Jing) Statistics released by Beijing Customs on the 24th showed that in the first 7 months of this year, the import and export of Beijing area (including the central government units in Beijing) was 1.69 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below). An increase of 26.9% over the same period last year was 2.4 percentage points higher than the national import and export growth rate during the same period.
Among them, imports and exports to the European Union (excluding the United Kingdom), the United States, ASEAN and Japan all increased by more than 20% over the same period last year.
In the first seven months of 2021, imports in the Beijing area were 1.34 trillion yuan, an increase of 27.9% over the same period last year; exports were 349.92 billion yuan, an increase of 23.2% over the same period last year.
Imports and exports to major trading partners have maintained a relatively high growth rate, and imports and exports to the top five trading partners have increased across the board. Except for Australia, imports and exports to the European Union (excluding the United Kingdom), the United States, ASEAN and Japan have all increased by more than 20%. Among them, imports and exports to the United States were 167.18 billion yuan, an increase of 106.1% over the same period last year, the highest growth rate among major trading partners, mainly driven by the increase in imports of crude oil, corn, soybeans, and automobiles from the United States.
During the same period, the Beijing region's imports and exports to RCEP trading partners and 17 Central and Eastern European countries were 384.13 billion yuan and 29.24 billion yuan, respectively, an increase of 19.7% and 34% over the same period last year.
Crude oil and natural gas are driving import growth in Beijing.
In the first seven months, imports of crude oil and natural gas in the Beijing area accounted for 36.3% and 13.5% of the total import value of the Beijing area during the same period, up 23.9% and 13.5% respectively over the same period last year.
Imports of consumer goods, agricultural products, iron ore and its concentrates, medicinal materials and medicines increased significantly.
In the first seven months, imports of consumer goods, agricultural products, iron ore and its concentrates, medical materials and medicines in Beijing increased by 37.8%, 49.3%, 32.6% and 25.9% respectively over the same period of last year. The total of these commodities increased by 125.19 billion over the same period last year. Yuan, accounting for 42.9% of the overall increase in imports in Beijing during the same period, showing the vitality of imports.
Technological innovation has driven commodity exports to show substantial growth.
In the first seven months, mobile phone exports in Beijing area were 49.92 billion yuan, an increase of 48.6% over the same period last year, accounting for 14.3% of the total export value of Beijing during the same period; exports of labor-intensive products were 10.54 billion yuan, down 63.2% from the same period last year, accounting for only 3. %.
In addition, driven by the substantial increase in refined oil exports in July, in the first seven months of this year, the Beijing region’s refined oil exports amounted to 89.06 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth rate from a cumulative decline of 5.6% in the first half of the year to an increase of 1.4%. Play a stabilizing role. (End)