China News Service, Guangzhou, February 23 (Reporter Xu Qingqing) According to news from the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs of China on the 23rd, since the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan Outline" was officially released, in the five years (2019 to 2023), The import and export volume of the nine mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area reached 37.34 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below).

Among them, exports were 23.37 trillion yuan and imports were 13.97 trillion yuan.

　　In 2023, the import and export volume of the nine mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area will be 7.95 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.4%.

Among them, exports were 5.23 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.23%; imports were 2.71 trillion yuan, a decrease of 4.3%.

　　According to the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs, the main export commodities of the nine mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area are mechanical and electrical products and labor-intensive products.

It is worth noting that the export of the "three new" products (electric passenger vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar cells) has grown rapidly. In the past five years, the export of the "three new" products has reached 404.71 billion yuan, of which 344.48 billion yuan was exported for lithium batteries and 344.48 billion yuan was exported. Electric passenger vehicles were worth 41.68 billion yuan, and exports of solar cells were worth 18.55 billion yuan.

　　In the past five years, the coverage of reforms such as the "Combined Port" and "One Port Connect" in the Greater Bay Area has been further expanded, with a total of 57 routes opened. In 2023, the number of transported goods will exceed 480,000 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 40.6%.

New functions such as "one single declaration and two declarations" for collective declaration of goods in Guangdong and Macao and "one single declaration and two declarations" for Guangdong-Hong Kong highway manifests have been launched, significantly reducing the required items for enterprises by more than 50%.

"Cross-border lock" covers 7 transit ports and connects 18 cities in Hong Kong, Macao, Guangdong and Hunan.

Implementing the reform of the "Three Alliances and Three Sameness" model for supplying chilled aquatic products to Australia, reducing quarantine certificates by 99% and reducing customs clearance time by more than 50%.

　　In addition, on January 1 and July 1, 2023, the "Australian cars going north" and "Hong Kong cars going north" policies were officially implemented at the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.

According to statistics from Gongbei Customs, since the implementation of this policy, as of February 22, 2024, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Customs under the customs has inspected and released more than 1.78 million Hong Kong and Macao single-plate vehicles "going north".

In the first year of policy implementation (2023), the customs clearance volume of inbound and outbound vehicles at the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge broke the single-day historical record 20 times, with the maximum number of single-plate vehicle trips from Hong Kong and Macao reaching 11,000 in a single day.

The software and hardware connectivity in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has been further deepened, and the "1-hour living circle" has basically been formed.

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