On the morning of October 29, the reporter learned from the press conference on the import and export of kunshan city's foreign trade in the first three quarters held by Kunshan Customs that the total import and export value of kunshan's trade in goods in the first three quarters of this year reached 474.87 billion yuan, an increase of 14% year-on-year, accounting for about 1/8 of the total import and export value of Jiangsu Province, of which the import and export volume in September reached 67.91 billion yuan, an increase of 32.1% year-on-year. The two figures each hit record highs.
Since the beginning of this year, in the face of a complex and severe domestic and foreign environment, Kunshan City has fully implemented the "six stability" requirements, done a solid job in the "six guarantees" work, and the foreign trade situation in the first three quarters has shown the characteristics of stability and improvement, stability and quality improvement. Major projects represented by Sany Heavy Industry, AUO Optoelectronics, and Huatian Technology have accelerated their landing, and the emerging coffee industries led by the Starbucks project have rapidly gathered, and the pull effect of foreign trade is obvious.
From the data point of view, in the first three quarters, the import and export scale of Kunshan City was 144.32 billion yuan, 151.03 billion yuan and 179.52 billion yuan respectively, and the import and export scale increased quarter by quarter; the total import and export volume in September reached 67.91 billion yuan, an increase of 32.1%, and the growth rate was 21.1 percentage points faster than that in August. Among them, exports were 44.22 billion yuan, an increase of 40.8%; imports were 23.69 billion yuan, an increase of 18.6%. In the first three quarters, Kunshan's general trade import and export was 118.55 billion yuan, an increase of 24.9%, 10.9 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate, accounting for 25% of the total foreign trade value, accounting for 2.2 percentage points higher than last year.
From the perspective of the market, in the first three quarters, Kunshan Imports and Exports to the United States, the European Union and Taiwan were 102.78 billion yuan, 71.06 billion yuan and 69.61 billion yuan respectively, an increase of 12.1%, 21.1% and 18.6% respectively; Kunshan City and the countries along the "Belt and Road" and RCEP countries have become increasingly close, with import and export values of 93.68 billion yuan and 138.25 billion yuan respectively, an increase of 20.5% and 10.7% respectively; Kunshan enterprises actively explore Latin America. In emerging markets such as Africa, import and export volume increased by 21.1% and 23.2% respectively in the same period.
In the data of the first three quarters, private enterprises performed well, and pillar industries flourished, becoming an important driving force for the growth of foreign trade imports and exports. In the first three quarters, there were 6167 enterprises with import and export performance in Kunshan, an increase of 2.5% over last year. Among them, the import and export of private enterprises was 127.92 billion yuan, an increase of 57.6%, accounting for 26.9% of the total foreign trade value; in the same period, the import and export of foreign-invested enterprises was 346.76 billion yuan, an increase of 3.5%. In the first three quarters, notebook computers and portable tools increased by 35.4% and 55.6% respectively, driving a total export growth of 11.9 percentage points; in September, with the advent of the peak consumption season, the exports of notebook computers and mobile phones increased by 51.7% and 112.2% respectively, driving export growth of 30.5 percentage points.
(Source: Kunshan Municipal People's Government website)
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