Xinjiang'S Foreign Trade Is Running Well In The First Half Of This Year.

Since 2011,

According to statistics, the first half of this year, Xinjiang has achieved progress

Border trade has increased rapidly, and tourist shopping exports have dropped slightly.

In 1-6 months, the total import and export volume of the region's border trade reached US $5 billion 280 million, an increase of 63.5%, accounting for 58.7% of the total import and export value of the autonomous region; general trade imports and exports amounted to US $2 billion 243 million, an increase of 38.8%; the import and export trade of processing trade decreased by 5.2% US dollars; other trade imports and exports 1 billion 330 million U. S. dollars, decreased by 5.3%; among them, the "tourist shopping mode" exports were 1 billion 157 million dollars, down by 1 billion 157 million.

We have maintained steady growth in the import and export of major trading partners in Central Asia and Russia, and Kyrgyzstan has become Xinjiang's second largest trading partner.

In 1-6 months, Xinjiang's imports and exports to Kazakhstan amounted to US $4 billion 587 million, accounting for 51% of the total import and export volume of the region, an increase of 36.1%. The import and export of Kyrgyzstan was US $1 billion 585 million, an increase of 64.5% over the same period last year.

Imports and exports of Tajikistan, Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Mongolia increased by 75.2%, 93.8%, 21.4%, 18.3% and 133.3% respectively.

Imports and exports of Turkmenistan fell 48.9%.

According to the import and export situation of 15 prefectures and cities, Yili, Urumqi, Bo Zhou, Shihezi, Aletai, Kashi, Ke Zhou, Akesu, Bazhou, Turpan and Hami have achieved growth in import and export.

Urumqi achieved import and export volume of US $3 billion 370 million, an increase of 37.5% over the same period last year.

From the analysis of import and export enterprises, private enterprises, state owned enterprises and collective enterprises have increased and foreign investment enterprises have decreased slightly.

In 1-6 months, the import and export volume of private enterprises in the region was 5 billion 709 million US dollars, an increase of 22.6%, accounting for 63.46% of the total value of imports and exports; the import and export volume of state-owned enterprises was US $3 billion 17 million, an increase of 101.6% over the same period last year; the import and export volume of collective enterprises was 113 million US dollars, up 32.4% over the same period last year; and the foreign investment enterprises' imports and exports were 157 million US dollars, down by 3.4%.

The bulk of export commodities continued to grow.

In 1-6 months, garments, mechanical and electrical products, shoes, textiles, agricultural products, tomato paste, fruit, automobiles, auto parts, glass products, steel, automobiles, bags, primary polyvinyl chloride, high-tech products, furniture, plastic products, lighting devices, aluminum and aluminum, vegetables, coke, circuit breakage protection circuit, plastic woven bags, meat and chop, automatic data processing equipment and other 29 kinds of commodities were exported over ten million US dollars.

Among them, clothing exports amounted to 2 billion 171 million US dollars, an increase of 30.2%; exports of mechanical and electrical products increased by US $1 billion 37 million, an increase of 2.6%; footwear exports amounted to US $724 million, an increase of 29.3%; textile products exported 718 million US dollars, an increase of 30.5%; and agricultural products exported 453 million US dollars, an increase of 14.8%.

Imports of crude oil, mechanical and electrical products, iron ore, agricultural products and cotton increased significantly, and imports of bulk raw materials increased steadily.

In 1-6 months, the total import of crude oil was 1 million 590 thousand tons, valued at 1 billion 130 million US dollars; the import of mechanical and electrical products was 377 million US dollars, an increase of 28.8% over the same period last year; the import of agricultural products was 247 million US dollars, an increase of 19.8% over the previous year; 34.8% increase in the import of iron ore; 98.3% increase in iron ore imports; 45.7% increase in cotton imports; 3.45 increase in imports of refined oil products; an increase in imports of high-tech products; an increase in imports of steel products; an increase in imports of primary plastics; an increase in imports of scrap metals.