In The First Quarter Of This Year, Exports Of 7 Categories Of Clothing, Footwear And Other Products Totaled $97 Billion.

The new China Office held a press conference at 10 a.m., headed by the spokesman for the General Administration of customs and the director of the Comprehensive Statistics Division. Zheng Yue Sheng The import and export situation in the first quarter of 2013 is introduced. According to Zheng Yuesheng, China's trade with the European Union and Japan fell by 1.9% and 10.7% respectively in the first quarter of this year.

According to Zheng Yuesheng, the main situation of China's foreign trade in the first quarter of this year is:

1. General trade and processing trade have increased steadily. In the first quarter, China's general trade import and export amounted to US $486 billion 300 million, an increase of 7.4%. It accounts for 49.9% of China's total foreign trade. The deficit in general trade was $18 billion 980 million, narrowing by 63.5%. Over the same period, China's processing trade imports and exports reached 323 billion 20 million US dollars, an increase of 6%, accounting for 33.1% of China's total foreign trade. The surplus in processing trade amounted to 84 billion 260 million US dollars, narrowing 3.6%.

Two, the decline in trade between the EU and Japan is right. U.S.A ASEAN trade is growing steadily. In the first quarter, bilateral trade between China and the EU amounted to 124 billion 410 million US dollars, down 1.9%, accounting for 12.8% of China's total foreign trade. The total trade volume between China and the United States is 118 billion 240 million US dollars, an increase of 10.8%, accounting for 12.1% of our total foreign trade. In the first quarter, bilateral trade between the mainland and Hongkong amounted to US $109 billion 880 million, an increase of 71.2%. It accounts for 11.3% of the total value of the mainland's foreign trade. Bilateral trade with ASEAN totaled 100 billion 260 million US dollars, an increase of 15.5%, accounting for 10.3% of our total foreign trade. Sino Japanese bilateral trade totaled 70 billion 870 million US dollars, down 10.7%, accounting for 7.3% of our total foreign trade.

Three, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other 7 provinces and municipalities accounted for 8 of the total foreign trade, and the western and central China's foreign trade exports increased rapidly. In the first quarter, the total value of Guangdong's imports and exports was 289 billion 160 million US dollars, ranking first in the country. Over the same period, the total value of imports and exports of Jiangsu and Shanghai was 119 billion 520 million US dollars and 101 billion 190 million US dollars respectively, including Beijing's central units in Beijing, and 103 billion 240 million US dollars in imports and exports. In addition, the total value of imports and exports of Zhejiang, Shandong and Fujian were 73 billion 870 million, 59 billion 360 million and 39 billion 520 million US dollars respectively, and the total value of imports and exports of these seven provinces and cities accounted for 80.6% of the total value of imports and exports.

From the point of view of exports, exports in the central and western regions maintained a rapid growth in the first quarter, and the export growth rates in Jiangxi, Anhui, Sichuan and Chongqing were 92.5%, 98.1%, 59.6% and 36.2% respectively.

Four, the proportion of foreign-funded enterprises has continued to decline, and private enterprises' imports and exports have increased rapidly. In the first quarter, foreign investment enterprises imported and exported 438 billion 30 million US dollars, accounting for 44.9% of the total value of our foreign trade, and their share declined by 5.7 percentage points compared with the same period last year. Over the same period, private enterprises' imports and exports reached 312 billion 110 million US dollars, an increase of 53.1%, which is 39.7 percentage points higher than that of our foreign trade, accounting for 32% of our total foreign trade. In addition, state-owned enterprises import and export 175 billion 250 million US dollars, accounting for 18% of our total foreign trade value.

Five, the export of electromechanical products and traditional labor-intensive products increased steadily. In the first quarter, China's mechanical and electrical products exported 298 billion 540 million US dollars, an increase of 18.1%, accounting for 58.7% of our total export value. Over the same period, clothing, textiles, footwear, furniture, plastic products, bags, toys and other 7 categories of labor-intensive products totaled 97 billion US dollars in exports, an increase of 21.8%, accounting for 19.1% of our total export value.

Six, the import of some energy and resource products has decreased. In the first quarter, China imported 1.9 million tons of iron ore, which was basically the same as that of the same period last year, 80 million tons of imported coal, an increase of 30.1%, 68 million 970 thousand tons of imported crude oil, 2.3% reduction, 11 million 490 thousand tons of imported soybeans, 13.4% reduction, 10 million 430 thousand tons of imported refined oil, and a reduction of 3.4%.