In The First Half Of This Year, Xinjiang'S Import And Export Value Increased By 10.7% Year-On-Year.

Reporters learned from the Urumqi Customs: in the first half of this year, Xinjiang achieved 62 billion 470 million yuan in foreign trade import and export value, up 10.7% from the same period last year, higher than the national growth rate by 6.8 percentage points, of which 45 billion 150 million yuan was exported, a slight decrease of 0.4% over the same period last year, and imports of 17 billion 320 million yuan, an increase of 56.2% over the same period. Since March, the total value of Xinjiang's import and export has increased for 4 consecutive months.

From the trade perspective, the total import and export volume of small trade in Xinjiang in the first half was 36 billion 530 million yuan, an increase of 6.5% over the same period last year, accounting for 58.5% of the total value of imports and exports. General trade import and export value of 21 billion 220 million yuan, an increase of 10.6% over the same period. In the first half of this year, other trade patterns in our region developed rapidly. Logistics goods, foreign investment, bonded warehouse goods, imports and exports and border trade increased by 1.1 times, 161.8 times, 66.2%, 78.6% and 60.2% respectively.

Kazakhstan remains the largest trading partner of China's Xinjiang. In the first half of this year, the total value of China's import and export to Xinjiang was 28 billion 530 million yuan, up 17% from the same period last year, accounting for nearly 50% of the total value of Xinjiang's foreign trade in China. In the first half of this year, the total import and export value of China's Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan and Russia were 8 billion 700 million yuan and 4 billion 580 million yuan respectively.

In the first half of the year, in the import and export trade, the private enterprises in our district are still the main force, and the state-owned enterprises are also active. Mechanical and electrical products, clothing and footwear are the main export commodities in our region. Natural gas, agricultural products and electromechanical products are the main import commodities. Among them, agricultural products have become an important import and export commodity in Xinjiang's foreign trade. The total export value of agricultural products in the first half of this year was 3 billion 150 million yuan, an increase of 7.6% over the same period last year, and 2 billion 470 million yuan of imports of agricultural products, an increase of 30.1% over the same period last year.

Chen Guoliang, a statistical expert at the Urumqi customs and Statistics Department, said that in the first half of this year, Xinjiang's foreign trade growth benefited from the following reasons: import has achieved substantial growth and has become a major factor in stimulating import and export growth; from the external environment, China's overall foreign trade has increased steadily, providing strong support for Xinjiang's foreign trade. Xinjiang's steady foreign trade policy initiatives have been actively landing, creating a favorable environment for the development of enterprises.

Urumqi customs will continue to make positive supervision, support cross-border electricity providers to achieve better development, accelerate the integration and optimization of customs special supervision areas, diversify export markets, provide more customs clearance facilities for import and export enterprises, and optimize the Xinjiang foreign trade business environment to attract enterprises to declare customs localization, and further promote the transformation and upgrading of Xinjiang's foreign trade.