According to Urumqi Customs statistics, from January to April this year, Xinjiang’s foreign trade import and export value totaled 52.09 billion yuan, an increase of 33.7% compared with the same period of the previous year (referred to as “year-on-year”, the same below), 25.8 percentage points higher than the national growth rate. Economic growth is resilient. Among them, the export was 42.5 billion yuan, an increase of 45.4%, and the trade surplus was 32.91 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 68.9%.
Since the beginning of this year, Xinjiang has continued to expand the advantages of the core area of the “Silk Road Economic Belt”. A series of policies and measures to accelerate the construction of a new development pattern and help to build a strong and resilient national economic cycle system have been implemented one after another. The dividends have been gradually released, providing strong support. foreign trade growth. In the first four months, Xinjiang’s foreign trade ranked 24th among all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the country, and ranked 6th among 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the west, both of which were the same as the same period last year, and the growth rate ranked second among the western provinces, regions and cities.
The foreign trade momentum of some prefectures and cities in Xinjiang is booming, the growth potential is further released, and the foreign trade difference between the north and south Xinjiang is constantly narrowing. 13 of the 15 prefectures and cities achieved positive growth in foreign trade import and export value. The foreign trade of the five southern Xinjiang prefectures, including Kashgar, Aksu, Bazhou, Kezhou and Hotan, developed rapidly, with the import and export value increasing by 105.7%, 273.6%, 48.2%, 273.7%, 99%, especially the total foreign trade value of Kashgar has risen from the fourth place in the same period in 2021 to the second place this year, and the foreign trade ratio of north and south Xinjiang has changed from 2:8 in the same period last year to 3 : 7.
Xinjiang’s foreign trade has strong economic complementarity with countries along the “Belt and Road” and RCEP member countries, and has great potential for foreign trade cooperation. The market is diversified, and the bilateral trade volume has grown significantly. From January to April this year, Xinjiang imported and exported 47.46 billion yuan and 3.34 billion yuan to the countries along the “Belt and Road” and RCEP member countries, an increase of 45.2% and 30.8% respectively, accounting for 30% of Xinjiang’s total foreign trade import and export value (the same below). 91.1%, 6.4%. Except for the top five trading partners of Xinjiang, including Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, imports and exports to Indonesia, Bangladesh and Italy increased by 229.4%, 174.9% and 29.8% respectively.
From the perspective of trade entities, the status of private enterprises as the main foreign trade entity continued to be consolidated. The import and export trade volume was 45.88 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 45.7%, accounting for 88.1% of Xinjiang’s total foreign trade import and export value.
From the perspective of product type, the export advantage products such as mechanical and electrical products, textile and clothing, shoes and boots have a good growth trend. Among them, the export trade volume of labor-intensive products such as textiles, clothing and shoes and boots from Xinjiang reached 20.17 billion yuan, and the export trade volume of mechanical and electrical products was 12.97 billion yuan, up 63.4% and 41.6% year-on-year respectively, accounting for 47.5% and 30.5% of the total value of Xinjiang’s foreign trade exports. %. In the same period, the export trade volume of agricultural products was 2.13 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.6%, of which the tomato paste export trade volume was 960 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.1%.
With the continuous acceleration of the construction of the core area of the “Silk Road” economic belt, Xinjiang’s “Comprehensive Bonded Zone +” emerging business has developed rapidly, business types and trade scale have continued to expand, relying on the constantly enriched carriers of opening up, Xinjiang’s export-oriented economy presents ” Steady progress and quality improvement during progress”. Data show that in the first four months, the import and export trade volume of the four comprehensive bonded zones in Kashgar, Alashankou, Horgos and Urumqi reached 9.53 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 130.2%, accounting for 18.3% of Xinjiang’s total foreign trade value. Among them, the trade scale and growth rate of the Kashgar Comprehensive Bonded Zone ranked first in Xinjiang, with a trade volume of 3.77 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 586.2%. During the same period, the import and export volume of Xinjiang’s foreign trade in the form of small-scale border trade reached 27.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 54.8%, accounting for 51.9% of the total value of Xinjiang’s foreign trade import and export; the general trade volume of import and export trade reached 19.18 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase. 5.2%, accounting for 36.8% of Xinjiang’s total foreign trade import and export value.
In the next step, Urumqi Customs will closely follow the ten measures of the General Administration of Customs to promote the stability and improvement of foreign trade, and formulate relevant measures for Urumqi Customs to support the stable development of foreign trade in Xinjiang based on the actual situation in Xinjiang. Excellent and smooth connection, stable development of business“, promote the consolidation of the foreign trade fundamentals, take multiple measures to help Xinjiang’s export-oriented economy run “acceleration”, do everything possible to promote the stability and quality of foreign trade, and fully support Xinjiang to build a new highland for opening up to the west. (China Daily Xinjiang reporter station)