Effect Of Structural Adjustment And Improvement Of Export Quality

"In recent years Sichuan Foreign trade has shown a momentum of rapid growth. Since 2009, the total value of foreign trade has reached US $24 billion 170 million, ranking the first in the Midwest. After that, it has reached a new level of ten billion dollars every year. In the past 5 years, the average annual growth rate of foreign trade in Sichuan has reached 23.8%, which is 9.5 percentage points higher than the national average. Ni Zao It said that Sichuan's foreign trade import and export achieved steady growth last year, the growth rate was higher than the national average level in the same period. In the 31 provinces and municipalities of the whole country, Sichuan ranked eleventh in foreign trade and import and export, unchanged from last year, and second in the central and western regions.

According to statistics of Chengdu customs, Sichuan achieved last year. foreign trade The total value of imports and exports was 431 billion 470 million yuan, an increase of 7.7% over the same period, while the total import and export volume of the whole country increased by 2.3% during the same period. Among them, exports amounted to 275 billion 400 million yuan, an increase of 5.8%, while the national export grew by 4.9% during the same period, and imports of 156 billion 70 million yuan, an increase of 11.2%, while the import of the whole country dropped slightly by 0.6% over the same period. In dollar terms, last year Sichuan's foreign trade import and export amounted to 70 billion 250 million US dollars, an increase of 8.8%, and then a new step of ten billion dollars.

It is worth noting that the export of mechanical and electrical products has increased rapidly, and the decline of traditional labor intensive products is a major feature of Sichuan's foreign trade last year. Last year, Sichuan's exports of electromechanical products, mainly composed of portable computers and integrated circuits, reached 179 billion 680 million yuan, an increase of 6.8%. The overall export growth of the whole province increased by 4.4 percentage points, accounting for 65.2% of the total export value of the whole province. In the same period, Sichuan exported 7 categories of traditional labor-intensive products, 39 billion 30 million yuan, down 11.9%. Among them, plastic products, travel supplies and bags, furniture and other obvious decline.

"From the national data, the export of traditional labor intensive products is increasing, while Sichuan has seen a marked decline. This shows that Sichuan's exports are being adjusted and optimized, and the quality of foreign trade exports is rising." Ni Zao believes that this change reflects the current structural adjustment policy is playing a role, the export of low value-added products is declining, and the export of dominant industries and high value-added products is rising. Not only that, statistics also show that the proportion of manufactured goods manufactured by foreign trade in Sichuan increased last year, the proportion of semi manufactured products decreased, and the primary products were basically flat. This also reflected the structural adjustment of Sichuan's foreign trade export and the improvement of its foreign trade quality.

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Statistics show that last year, Chengdu achieved 342 billion 980 million yuan in foreign trade and imports and exports, an increase of 9.3%, accounting for 79.5% of the province's total, and 7.2 percentage points of the growth of the province's foreign trade, which is a major factor in promoting Sichuan's foreign trade growth. Of which, exports were 207 billion 660 million yuan, an increase of 4.9%, and imports of 135 billion 320 million yuan, an increase of 16.7%. Among the 15 sub provincial cities in the country, Chengdu has the ninth largest foreign trade scale.

Ni Zao said that Chengdu attaches great importance to the development of export-oriented economy. Under the global economic weakness, Chengdu's foreign trade growth rate last year still maintained a 9.3% growth rate, which is higher than the national and provincial average level. It is not easy. Last year, Chengdu's foreign trade mainly showed the following four characteristics:

First, the decline in the proportion of processing trade, the substantial growth of logistics goods in the region; the two is mainly foreign-funded enterprises, the most dynamic of private enterprises; three, the success of developing new markets is remarkable. Apart from the rapid growth of the major trading partners, the United States (34.7%) and Hongkong (29.1%), the trade with the emerging economies has also increased rapidly. Four, the import and export commodities are still dominated by mechanical and electrical products, 73.1% of the exports and 76.5% of imports are electromechanical products.

Statistics also showed that the import and export value of Chengdu hi tech comprehensive security zone last year was 198 billion 230 million yuan, an increase of 15.7%, stimulating the overall growth of Sichuan's foreign trade by 6.7 percentage points, accounting for 45.9% of the total foreign trade share of the province. Among them, the import and export of hi tech park was 159 billion 310 million yuan, an increase of 8.8%; the import and export of Shuangliu Park was 38 billion 920 million yuan, a sharp increase of 55.9%.