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Foreign trade growth expected to be stable

Trade: Manufacturing sector has bolstered strength The growth of China's foreign trade is expected to be stable this year, given the robust performance during the January-October period, which has laid a solid foundation, trade watchers said on Monday. The country's foreign trade surged 9.5 percent year-on-year to 34.62 trillion yuan ($4.79 trillion) in the first 10 months of 2022, while its trade surplus jumped 46.7 percent year-on-year to 4.8 trillion yuan, according to the General Administration of Customs. Judging from the sector's performance so far this year, and given the resilience of the country's industrial and supply chains, China is likely to see stable growth of foreign trade and a high trade surplus this year, said Wei Jianguo, vice-chairman of Beijing-based China Center for International Economic Exchanges. "Despite the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the United States' interest rate hike, Chinese exporters, backed by the government's supportive measures and new foreign trade formats such as cross-border e-commerce business, have been busy in upgrading their product structure this year," he said, adding the country's export impetus is no longer dominated by products with low industrial added value. Li Kuiwen, director-general of the GAC statistics and analysis department, also held that opinion and said that China's exports of electric vehicles doubled on a yearly basis from January to October, while the exports of mechanical and electrical products such as lithium batteries and solar cells soared by about 80 percent year-on-year. China's high-tech exports rose from $474.35 billion in 2010 to $942.31 billion in 2021, up by 98.65 percent, according to the World Bank database. This indicates China's manufacturing sector has not only withstood the test of the market amid global supply chain disruptions, but also continuously bolstered its strength driven by the market forces. Meanwhile, the foreign trade value of private companies accounted for more than half the total, and their growth rate was 4.9 percentage points higher than the overall export and import growth rate over the past 10 months, showing the resilience and competitiveness of the private companies, Li said. With the growth of China's foreign trade dropping from 8.3 percent in September to 6.9 percent in October, experts said that external factors such as softening global consumption demand and high inflation will continue to pose challenges to companies at home in the fourth quarter and next year. Meanwhile, the high export base last year is also a factor for the slowing growth rate this year, experts said. China's exports had been weighed down by a sluggish Christmas shopping season, high inflation and high interest rates, as well as an uncertain economic outlook in overseas markets. These factors have severely dampened consumer confidence in many parts of the world. Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said as the prices of energy and raw materials are high, companies are holding off on replenishing inventory, so imports continued to be depressed last month.

2022-11-08

China's foreign trade up 9.5% in Jan-Oct

The value of China's foreign trade amounted to 34.62 trillion yuan ($4.79 trillion) in the first ten months of 2022, up 9.5 percent year-on-year, according to the General Administration of Customs. Among that, the country's exports surged 13 percent on a yearly basis to 19.71 trillion yuan, while its imports grew 5.2 percent to 14.91 trillion yuan. Its trade surplus jumped 46.7 percent year-on-year to 4.8 trillion yuan. The administration said that China's total foreign trade expanded 6.9 percent from the same period last year to 3.55 trillion yuan in October. The country's trade with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations reached 5.26 trillion yuan between January and October, an increase of 15.8 percent on a yearly basis, while trade with the European Union rose 8.1 percent to 4.68 trillion yuan. In the meantime, the total trade value between China and the United States grew 6.8 percent year-on-year to 4.21 trillion yuan.

2022-11-07

China's services industry sees robust growth over past decade: report

BEIJING -- China's services industry made marked progress over the last decade, with industrial structure improved and new drivers emerging, official data showed on Tuesday. The added value of the services sector grew at an average annual rate of 7.4 percent during the 2013-2021 period, 0.8 percentage points higher than the average annual GDP growth during the period, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a report. The sector's contribution to GDP expansion increased from 45 percent in 2012 to 63.5 percent in 2019, the report said, and its contribution in 2021 was 54.9 percent despite COVID-19 disruptions. China's services sector has an improving structure. In 2021, the added value of information transmission, software and information technology services accounted for 7.2 percent of the added value of the services sector, up 2.3 percentage points from 2012, the report said. The sector has also seen thriving new growth drivers. In 2021, e-commerce transactions in the country totaled 42 trillion yuan ($6 trillion), with an average annual growth rate of 20.3 percent during the 2013-2021 period, according to the report.

2022-09-21

Japan PM Abe declares state of emergency over coronavirus

TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday declared a month-long state of emergency in Tokyo and six other parts of the country over a spike in coronavirus cases.

2020-04-07

Putin, Trump discuss closer cooperation in fight against COVID-19

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Monday discussed closer collaboration in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease during a phone talk, the Kremlin said.

2020-03-31

America's China ptfe resin preliminary anti-dumping: highest dumping rate of 208.16%

The Commerce Department is expected to make this case established on September 12, the international trade commission to make damage to the final will be held on October 29.

2020-03-23