5.44 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32.2% … According to data released by the General Administration of Customs on the 7th, the import and export of goods in China achieved a “good start” in the first two months, among which the export performance was particularly strong.
Specifically, in the first two months, China exported 3.06 trillion yuan, an increase of 50.1%; Imports were 2.38 trillion yuan, up by 14.5%; The trade surplus was 675.86 billion yuan, compared with a deficit of 43.3 billion yuan in the same period last year.
Li Kuiwen, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs, said that due to the COVID-19 epidemic, imports and exports decreased by 9.7% year-on-year in the first two months of last year, and the low base was one of the reasons for the large increase in the first two months of this year. “But even compared with the same period in 2018 and 2019, the growth rate of imports and exports in the first two months of this year was about 20%.” He said.
Tu Xinquan, president of the WTO Research Institute in China, university of international business and economics, believes that celebrating the New Year on the spot is another important factor that has greatly increased foreign trade, especially exports, this year.
This is consistent with the perception of the reporter’s previous investigation. January and February last year was just before and after the Spring Festival, which belonged to the traditional off-season of foreign trade. This year, many factories are full of orders and neatly staffed, and they are working hard to deliver the goods. Li Kuiwen said that foreign trade achieved a “good start” in the first two months, which made a good start for the whole year.
Insiders said that in order to promote the steady improvement of foreign trade this year, we should make greater efforts to strengthen credit support for small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, expand the coverage of export credit insurance, and optimize underwriting and claim settlement conditions. At the same time, it is necessary to deepen the pilot of facilitating foreign exchange receipts and payments, stabilize processing trade, and develop new formats and new models such as cross-border e-commerce.
(Source: Zhejiang Daily)