Qingdao's Import And Export Value Of $34 Billion 648 Million In The First Eight Months Was Equal To That Of Last Year.

Reporters learned yesterday from the Qingdao Municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau. From 1 to August this year, the total value of import and export of municipal enterprises in the city reached 34 billion 648 million dollars, an increase of 24.5% over the same period last year.

The total export volume was $20 billion 636 million, and imports were US $14 billion 12 million, up 21.2% and 29.6% respectively over the same period last year.

Compared with last year, exports exceeded two US dollars in advance in 20 billion months.

It is reported that Qingdao's export growth continued to pick up in the second half of this year.

Exports increased by 21.2% from 1 to August, the highest increase since last year.

7, in August, two months in a row, exports exceeded US $3 billion in one month, of which 3 billion 24 million US dollars were exported in August.

Since this year, the export of domestic enterprises in the city has increased rapidly.

From 1 to August, the state owned, collective and private enterprises exported 26.53, 18.10 and 4 billion 947 million US dollars respectively, up 34.3%, 17.2% and 41.4% respectively, representing an increase of 1.3, 0.9 and 2.3 percentage points respectively over the same period last year.

Over the same period, the proportion of foreign invested enterprises in the city continued to decline, reaching 54.4%, and completed exports of US $11 billion 221 million, an increase of 12.1% over the same period last year.

General trade exports have maintained relatively rapid growth.

From 1 to August, the general trade of our city was exported to US $9 billion 588 million, an increase of 36.5% over the same period last year, the highest level this year, accounting for 46.5% of the total export volume and 5.2 percentage points higher than the same period last year.

In the same period, the proportion of processing trade exports decreased further, reaching 48.9%, 5 percentage points lower than the same period last year.

Export commodities of major categories are better.

From 1 to August, our city exported more than 1 billion US dollars of commodities to 7 commodities, namely, electrical and electronic products 2 billion 440 million dollars, clothing 2 billion 407 million US dollars, machinery and equipment 2 billion 182 million US dollars, pportation tools 2 billion 23 million US dollars, computer and communication technology 1 billion 524 million US dollars, textiles 1 billion 226 million US dollars, metal products 1 billion 176 million US dollars, compared with the same period last year, 2 categories over 2 dollars are computer and communication technology, metal products.

Among the 20 categories of export commodities, the decline in footwear, steel and plastic products in the early stage of export decreased, and the export volume was basically flat compared with the same period last year.

High and new technology products have maintained a relatively high growth rate.

From 1 to August, the city's new and high technology products exported 1 billion 917 million US dollars, up 32.4% from the same period last year, accounting for 9.3% of the total export volume of the whole city.

The export of high-tech products increased by 11.2 percentage points higher than that of the city's foreign trade.

The backbone enterprises have become the main force of high and new technology exports. From 1 to August, there were 22 enterprises exported to tens of millions of dollars, with an export volume of US $1 billion 711 million, accounting for 89.3% of the total.

Among them, there are six enterprises with over 100 million dollars in export. They are Qingdao LG wave digital communication, Qingdao Hisense import and export, Xindu Ricoh (Qingdao), Haier group electrical appliance industry, Lucent technology communication equipment and Haier electric appliance (Development Zone).