Zhongxin Finance, January 14th. On January 14th, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the import and export situation in 2021. Li Kuiwen, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs and director of the Statistics and Analysis Department, said at the press conference that in the past 20 years, The import and export of my country's trade in goods has increased by more than 8 times, and the scale of trade in goods has jumped to the first place in the world.
According to Li Kuiwen, 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of my country's accession to the World Trade Organization.
According to customs statistics, my country's total import and export value has increased from 4.22 trillion yuan in 2001 to 39.1 trillion yuan in 2021, with an average annual growth of 12.2%.
Customs statistics are the official statistics of my country's import and export goods trade. Through customs import and export statistics, we can witness the leap-forward development of my country's goods trade in the past 20 years.
First, imports and exports increased by more than 8 times, and the scale of my country's trade in goods ranked first in the world.
The scale of my country's trade in goods started from 4.22 trillion yuan in 2001, broke through three levels of 10 trillion, 20 trillion and 30 trillion in 2005, 2010 and 2018 respectively, and will approach the 40 trillion yuan mark by 2021. , an increase of 8.3 times in 20 years.
Especially in the past 10 years, the scale of my country's trade in goods has increased from 24.4 trillion yuan in 2012 to 39.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.7 trillion yuan, close to the import and export scale of 2009, which fully demonstrates my country's reform in the new era Open to great achievements.
In addition, in terms of global market share, my country has also increased significantly from 4% in 2001 to 13.5% in the first three quarters of 2021. In 2013, my country became the world's largest trader in goods for the first time.
In 2021, for the first time in history, the scale of my country's foreign trade in US dollars will exceed US$6 trillion.
Second, the structure of export products has changed significantly, with mechanical and electrical products accounting for nearly 60%.
Over the past 20 years, my country's exports have grown at an average annual rate of 12.5%.
Mechanical and electrical products have become the most important export products, accounting for 59% of total exports in 2021.
It is worth mentioning that since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, my country has actively promoted international anti-epidemic cooperation and provided hundreds of millions of masks, protective clothing, testing reagents, vaccines and other anti-epidemic materials to the international community, contributing to the global anti-epidemic and economic recovery. Provided strong support.
The third is to continuously expand imports, and the imports of high-tech and resource products have grown steadily.
Over the past 20 years, my country's trade in goods has grown at an average annual rate of 11.8%. In 2009, my country became the world's second largest importer. In the first three quarters of 2021, my country's international import market share reached 12.1%.
my country's more open market allows the world to share more of the dividends brought by my country's economic growth and consumption boom.
Over the past 20 years, my country's imports of high-tech products have risen steadily, with an average annual growth rate of 14%, which has promoted the upgrading and transformation of my country's industrial structure; the imports of resource products have expanded in an orderly manner, and the imports of metal ore, crude oil, coal, natural gas and other resource products have increased on an average annual basis. 18%, providing a strong supplement to the steady growth of the domestic economy.
Fourth, the diversified development of trading partners, ASEAN has become my country's largest trading partner.
Over the past 20 years, my country's trade position with traditional markets such as the European Union, the United States, Japan, and South Korea has been stable. The above-mentioned trading partners will account for 38.3% of my country's foreign trade in 2021.
At the same time, my country is actively exploring emerging markets such as ASEAN, Africa, Latin America, Russia, and India.
Among them, ASEAN will become my country's largest trading partner in 2020, and will continue to maintain its position as my country's largest trading partner with a proportion of 14.5% in 2021.
It is worth noting that my country's trade with countries along the "Belt and Road" continues to deepen and smooth, and the scale of trade continues to expand, further promoting balanced and win-win development of trade.
Fifth, the number of foreign trade entities has doubled, and private enterprises have become the largest operating entity.
In 2021, there will be 567,000 enterprises with actual import and export performance in my country, an increase of 5.3 times compared with 2001.
In the past 20 years, the proportion of the total import and export value of my country's private enterprises has increased significantly from 6.1% in 2001 to 42.7% in 2019, becoming the largest foreign trade entity in my country, and this proportion will increase to 48.6% in 2021.
At the same time, the number of foreign-invested enterprises with actual import and export performance has further increased, reaching 82,000 in 2021, an increase of 21,000 compared with 2001. The average annual import and export scale of enterprises has reached 170 million yuan, an increase from 2001. 3.8 times.
Sixth, new momentum for foreign trade development has been continuously stimulated, and new forms of foreign trade have been changing with each passing day.
Customs statistics show that in 2021, the import and export of my country's comprehensive bonded zone, free trade pilot zone and Hainan Free Trade Port will increase by 24.3%, 26.4% and 57.7% respectively, showing a vigorous development trend.
In terms of emerging trade formats, the scale of my country's cross-border e-commerce and market procurement has expanded rapidly. In 2021, my country's cross-border e-commerce import and export scale will reach 1.98 trillion yuan, an increase of 15%; market procurement exports will increase by 32.1%.
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