CCTV News: Data released by the General Administration of Customs on August 7 showed that in the first seven months of this year, my country's goods trade maintained an upward and positive momentum, with a total import and export value of 25.7 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.5%; in the first seven months, my country's import and export high-tech products were 5.1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%, and its contribution to my country's overall import and export growth during the same period exceeded 40%.
In the first seven months of this year, my country's total export value of goods trade was 15.31 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.3%; the total import value was 10.39 trillion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.6%. In July, imports and exports were 3.91 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.7% year-on-year.
Director of Statistical Analysis Department of the General Administration of Customs Lu Daliang: Since the beginning of this year, foreign trade operations have maintained an upward and positive momentum. In July, my country's import and export growth further accelerated, and both exports and imports maintained growth.
The foreign trade structure continued to be optimized. In the first seven months of this year, my country imported and exported high-tech products 5.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.4% year-on-year, and its contribution to my country's overall import and export growth during the same period was 45.4%. The status of private enterprises as the "main force" has been further consolidated. In the first seven months of this year, my country's private enterprises imported and exported 14.68 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.4% year-on-year, accounting for 57.1% of my country's total import and export value, an increase of 2.1 percentage points from the same period last year.
Lu Daliang: Since the beginning of this year, private enterprises have actively recognized changes and sought changes, and continued to play the role of the main force in stabilizing foreign trade. In the first seven months, there were 570,000 private enterprises with import and export performance, an increase of 8.5%, accounting for 87.2% of the number of enterprises with import and export performance in my country.
