During the year, it crossed the two steps of US $5 trillion and US $6 trillion, and its scale reached an all-time high; Imports and exports to Europe, America, Japan and other economies increased by 17.5%; There are 567000 import and export performance enterprises, an increase of 36000, and the endogenous power is further increased... China's foreign trade handed over a bright report card in 2021, showing strong toughness.

Experts and enterprises interviewed said that in the opening year of the 14th five year plan, China's foreign trade achieved strong growth in multiple tests, and the stability of the industrial chain supply chain was further enhanced, laying a solid foundation for meeting challenges and dealing with uncertainty. Superimposed with a series of targeted measures, early arrangement and early force will effectively stabilize the expectations and confidence of foreign trade enterprises and win greater initiative for the improvement and upgrading of foreign trade throughout the year.

The scale of two steps has reached an all-time high

Li Kuiwen, spokesman of the General Administration of customs and director of the statistics and analysis department, said at the press conference of the state information office that in 2021, China will calmly respond to the Centennial changes and the epidemic situation in the century, promote deep-seated reform with a high level of opening-up, promote high-quality development, maintain a global leading position in economic development and epidemic prevention and control, achieve rapid growth in foreign trade import and export, achieve a new high scale and steadily improve quality.

According to customs statistics, the total import and export value of China's goods trade in 2021 was 39.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 21.4% over 2020. Among them, the export was 21.73 trillion yuan, an increase of 21.2%; Imports reached 17.37 trillion yuan, an increase of 21.5%. Compared with 2019, China's foreign trade import and export, export and import increased by 23.9%, 26.1% and 21.2% respectively. In terms of US dollars, it crossed the two steps of US $5 trillion and US $6 trillion and reached an all-time high.

New progress has been made not only in scale but also in quality improvement. In terms of business forms, in 2021, China's cross-border e-commerce exports increased by 24.5% year-on-year, and market procurement exports increased by 32.1%. The new business forms and new models have developed rapidly and become a living force for the development of China's foreign trade; In terms of import and export structure, in 2021, China's import and export proportion of general trade increased by 1.6 percentage points, and nearly 60% of export products are mechanical and electrical products; In terms of regional distribution, the import and export of China's central and western regions reached 6.93 trillion yuan, an increase of 22.8%, 1.4 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of China's foreign trade in the same period; Among the trading partners, imports and exports to Europe, America, Japan and other economies increased by 17.5%, and imports and exports to Latin America and Africa increased by 31.6% and 26.3% respectively.

'China joins hands with its trading partners to jointly maintain the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain and jointly contribute to the recovery of the world economy.' Li Kuiwen said.

In this process, the international market share of China's foreign trade has also made new breakthroughs. According to the latest data, in the first three quarters of 2021, China's export international market share was 14.9%, an increase of 0.6 percentage points year-on-year and 3.8 percentage points compared with 2012. This increase is just equivalent to China's export international market share in 2000 at the beginning of the century.

At the same time, the international market share of China's imports has steadily increased to 12.1% in the first three quarters of 2021 since it first exceeded 10% in 2013, an increase of 0.5 percentage points year-on-year. 'This reflects the great achievements we have made in reform and opening up in the new era.' Li Kuiwen said.