Many Places in China have released their foreign trade report CARDS for the first three quarters of this year

Recently, many places in China released economic data related to foreign trade, such as import and export volume and actual use of foreign capital for the first three quarters of 2020.

The People's government of Shandong province held a press conference on Tuesday to introduce the economic and social operation of the province in the first three quarters of 2020. In the first three quarters of 2020, shandong province's total import and export volume of goods reached 1556.33 billion yuan (RMB, same below), up by 4.2%, among which export volume reached 892.36 billion yuan, up by 10.0%; Imports of 663.97 billion yuan, down 2.7%; There were 2,003 newly established foreign-invested enterprises, with a year-on-year growth of 17.5%; The actual use of foreign capital reached us $10.78 billion, up 27.9% year on year and 25.4% higher than that of the whole country.

The reporter learned at the press conference that in terms of utilizing foreign capital, Shandong showed the characteristics of rapid growth of pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, obvious driving role of service industry, rapid growth of main sources of foreign capital, capital increase and good m&a situation.

"Private enterprises are the largest foreign trade subjects in Shandong." In the first three quarters of this year, shandong's private enterprises' imports and exports grew 11.5 percent year on year, 7.3 percentage points faster than the province as a whole and accounting for 68.6 percent of the province's total foreign trade, 4.5 percentage points higher than the same period last year, Said Zhang Yibing, vice director of Jinan Customs.

In addition, according to Qingdao Customs, in September this year, Shandong started a new mode of cross-border E-COMMERCE B2B direct export and e-commerce offshore export, with the export value reaching 8.019 million yuan and 19.155 million yuan respectively. In the same period, shandong's market purchase and export reached 23.13 billion yuan, up 71.5 percent.

As a strong foreign trade city in China, Ningbo's total foreign trade volume in the first three quarters reached 710.97 billion yuan, up 4.3 percent from the same period in 2019.

"In September alone, exports of processing trade were up 178.77 per cent year-on-year." MAO Saifei, director of Customs affairs of Ningbo Yiren Toys Co., LTD., introduced that under the global COVID-19 epidemic situation, the enterprise has intensified its efforts in customer development, actively seized the international market, diversified and expanded the raw materials of its products, and made full use of the processing trade facilitation measures, which has achieved good results.

In addition, recently, Ningbo Customs released "Ningbo Customs to promote the stability of foreign trade and foreign investment work Measures", 33 specific measures covering the construction of regulatory service platform, help to expand the industrial chain and supply chain, support the development of new forms of business and new models and other five aspects. At the same time, many foreign trade enterprises also enjoy the certificate of origin, bonded guarantee "zero quota" and other tax and fee reduction policies.

Guangzhou Port Group said Tuesday that its cargo throughput and container throughput in the first three quarters of this year were positive compared with the same period last year. From January to September, Guangzhou port handled 395.577 million tons of goods, with a year-on-year growth of 1.9%; The container throughput reached 15.825 million standard containers, with a year-on-year growth of 1.5%.

From January to September, the traditional commodities such as ore, steel, grain, petroleum and chemical products of Guangzhou Port Group increased against the trend: grain increased by 24.4%, among which the imported grain increased by 51.3%. Petroleum chemicals increased by 7%; Steel increased by 13.5%, of which foreign imports increased by 171.5%; Ore growth was 13.7 percent. The structure of domestic and foreign trade in grain and steel goods was further improved.