CCTV News:According to the data released by the General Administration of Customs today (January 14th), in 2021, China’s import and export with its major trading partners maintained a double-digit rapid growth, among which the foreign trade with countries along the Belt and Road increased rapidly, and the diversified development of foreign trade became more obvious.
In Inner Mongolia, the world’s first welding robot workstation for electric wheelbarrows, a batch of Zijin copper mining vehicles are being produced quickly and will be exported to Serbia soon. With the product characteristics of high efficiency, low consumption and high reliability, the export value of electric wheel harvesters of this enterprise in 2021 was 69.8278 million US dollars, up 43.5% year-on-year, winning the favor of the international market.
Wang Yu, Minister of International Trade of Inner Mongolia North Heavy Truck Co., Ltd.:With the substantial increase in export volume, more and more countries and regions are exporting, especially the goods exported to countries along the "Belt and Road" such as Russia and Indonesia have increased significantly. In 2021, our foreign market has expanded to 67 countries and regions around the world.
Customs statistics show that in 2021, China’s import and export to major trading partners such as ASEAN, the European Union and the United States were 5.67 trillion yuan, 5.35 trillion yuan and 4.88 trillion yuan respectively, up by 19.7%, 19.1% and 20.2% respectively.
In the same period, China and countries along the Belt and Road totaled 11.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.6%; China and RCEP countries imported and exported 12.07 trillion yuan, up 18.1% year-on-year.
Yan Min, Director of Macroeconomic Research Office of Economic Forecasting Department of National Information Center:China’s import and export with its traditional trading partners, countries along the Belt and Road Initiative and RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) have shown a rapid growth trend, and China’s trading partners are all over the world. This diversified development has not only effectively promoted the vitality and potential of China’s foreign trade, but also promoted the economic and trade development of other countries and made important contributions to international trade and the prosperity and stability of the world economy.