2018, the total foreign trade volume is high, and the role of private enterprises is more prominent

Author:      Date: 2019-01-24 10:00:00

On January 14, the General Administration of Customs released data showing that China's foreign trade import and export value in 2018 was RMB30.51 trillion, an increase of 9.7% over 2017, and the scale reached a record high. It is expected to continue to maintain the status of the world's largest trade in goods. The reporter also learned that the customs, the Ministry of Commerce and other departments are currently mulling support policies to ensure the steady development of foreign trade in 2019.


Among them, the contribution of private enterprises to China's foreign trade growth in the past more than 50%, the role of foreign trade development is more prominent. Li Kuiwen said that in 2018, there were 372,000 private enterprises with an import and export performance in China, an increase of 10.7% over 2017. More private enterprises participated in import and export activities.


The regional distribution of private enterprises has achieved a number of developments. In 2018, the growth rate of import and export of private enterprises in the central, western and northeastern regions reached 20.3%, 18.9% and 16.7% respectively, which was higher than the 12.1% in the east, showing a trend of development and achieving double-digit growth.

This has also promoted the coordination of China's foreign trade regional development to a certain extent. The data shows that in 2018, the growth rate of import and export in the central and western regions and the northeast region was higher than the overall growth rate of the whole country. The growth rate of foreign trade in the 12 provinces and cities in the west was 16.1%, exceeding the national growth rate by 6.4 percentage points; the growth rate of foreign trade in the six provinces and cities was 11.4. %, exceeding the national growth rate of 1.7 percentage points; the growth rate of foreign trade in the three northeastern provinces was 14.8%, exceeding the national growth rate by 5.1 percentage points.


Li Kuiwen revealed that in the next step, the General Administration of Customs will further improve the informationization system for cross-border e-commerce retail import and export, and optimize and upgrade the functions of tax administration, quota control, and declaration management to further meet the cross-border e-commerce customs supervision. Business needs, but also better serve the majority of Internet users.