In the first two months, the total foreign trade import and export value of Kashgar, Xinjiang increased by 90% year-on-year.

　　China News Service, Kashgar, Xinjiang, March 18 (Zhang Pan, Wang Xiping) According to statistics from Kashgar Customs, in the first two months of this year, the total foreign trade import and export value of Kashgar, Xinjiang, was 17.06 billion yuan, accounting for 26.8% of the total foreign trade import and export value of Xinjiang. It increased by 90% year-on-year, 38.6 percentage points higher than the growth rate of Xinjiang’s foreign trade import and export.

　　In the first two months, taking advantage of the opportunity of the construction of the Kashgar area of ​​the China (Xinjiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone, the Kashgar region's foreign trade achieved a double improvement in "scale and ranking" and a double optimization in "product structure and regional layout."

It also shows the characteristics of a new wave of expansion of trading partners, a new situation in the import and export structure of commodities, and a new level of cultivation of foreign trade entities.

　　The expansion of trading partners has set off a new wave.

In the first two months, the Kashgar region had trade relations with 175 countries (regions).

Among them, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan are the top three trading partners of the Kashgar region, accounting for 43.7% of the total foreign trade import and export value of the Kashgar region (hereinafter referred to as the "proportion").

During the same period, the number of visits to countries co-building the “Belt and Road”, other RCEP member states, ASEAN, and the EU increased by 70.8%, 33.5 times, 33.8 times, and 10.1 times respectively.

In addition, since this year, Kashgar has successively opened a number of new international freight routes to Moscow, Russia, and Bournemouth, England. The distance between Kashgar and the world has been further shortened, and cooperation with neighboring countries has become more convenient.

In the first two months, the total value of air transport imports and exports in Kashgar increased by 119.6%.

　　The commodity import and export structure has opened up a new situation.

From the perspective of exports, the traditional foreign trade industries in the Kashgar region have become stronger, and the export growth of new and old products has been impressive.

In the first two months, the export of mechanical and electrical products in Kashgar increased by 112.1%.

The export of the "three new" products represented by lithium-ion batteries, photovoltaic products, and electric vehicles increased by 396.7%; the export of the "three old" products represented by household appliances, automatic data processing equipment, and mobile phones increased by 80.9%.

From the perspective of imports, demand for high-tech products and cotton imports is strong, and terminal consumer goods continue to expand and upgrade.

In the first two months, the import of agricultural products accounted for 42.3% of the total foreign trade import value of the Kashgar region, mainly uncombed cotton, prunes and prunes, fresh or dried dates, licorice, etc.; the import of high-tech products accounted for 42.3% of the total foreign trade import value of the Kashgar region. 33% of the value, mainly computer and communication technology.

During the same period, imports of consumer goods increased 615.3 times.

　　The cultivation of foreign trade entities has reached a new level.

Two years ago, the "Customs Southern Xinjiang Business Centralized Review Center" was innovatively established to break the existing regional, functional and model restrictions of "territoriality" and "port" and achieve "one declaration, one inspection, one release", and the logistics customs efficiency increased by 80%. Above, the company's labor costs are reduced by more than 50%.

In the first two months, the import and export of private enterprises in Kashgar increased by 94.4%, accounting for 99.1%, and contributed 101.6% to the overall growth of import and export, further consolidating their status as the main body of foreign trade.

In the first two months, Kashgar's foreign trade was dominated by general trade and small-scale border trade. Among them, general trade imports and exports increased 25.2 times, accounting for 55.7%, an increase of 51.7 percentage points from the same period last year; border small-scale trade imports and exports increased by 1.7%. , accounting for 41.2%.

During the same period, imports and exports through bonded logistics and processing trade fell by 70% and 65.1% respectively.

　　According to reports, in the next step, Kashgar Customs will focus on strengthening functions, activating forces, and promoting coordination, relying on the construction of the free trade zone to boldly carry out reform and innovation, develop new productive forces according to local conditions, and focus on promoting reform and innovation in the free trade zone, cultivating new momentum for foreign trade, and smooth flow Continuous efforts have been made in international logistics channels and optimizing the port business environment to add new impetus, cultivate new advantages, and accumulate new momentum for Kashgar's high-level openness and high-quality development.

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