beijing's imports and exports totaled 2.39 trillion yuan in the first eight months
2024-09-24
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this year, against the backdrop of a slowdown in global economic growth and weakening external demand, beijing's foreign trade has continued to maintain a stable and positive trend. according to customs statistics, beijing's imports and exports in the first eight months of 2024 totaled 2.39 trillion yuan, up 0.7% year-on-year, accounting for 8.4% of the country's total imports and exports. among them, imports were 1.99 trillion yuan, up 0.4%; exports were 401.99 billion yuan, up 2.7%.
overall, in the first eight months, municipal enterprises in beijing's foreign trade performed well, and trade with countries participating in the construction of the "belt and road" remained close. the open platform played a positive role in promoting regional foreign trade and fully played the role of "one core" in the coordinated development of beijing, tianjin and hebei.
the role of municipal enterprises in boosting regional foreign trade has increased. in the first eight months, beijing's municipal enterprises' imports and exports totaled 683.06 billion yuan, up 5.9% year-on-year, boosting beijing's overall growth rate by 1.6 percentage points, accounting for 28.5% of the region's total imports and exports during the same period, up 1.4 percentage points from the same period last year. "in comparison, in the first eight months of this year, beijing's overall imports and exports grew by 0.7%. therefore, beijing's foreign trade growth is almost entirely driven by municipal enterprises," said a relevant official from beijing customs.
in the first eight months, beijing's imports and exports to countries participating in the belt and road initiative reached 1.28 trillion yuan, up 3.6%, accounting for 53.6% of the region's total imports and exports during the same period. during the same period, beijing's main trading partners were the european union and the united states, with imports and exports of 259.88 billion yuan and 180.89 billion yuan, respectively.
imports and exports of free trade zones and comprehensive bonded zones continued to grow. in the first eight months, the import and export of china (beijing) pilot free trade zone was 301.73 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.3%, accounting for 12.6% of the region's total import and export value. the import and export of tianzhu comprehensive bonded zone was 89.51 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%, of which imports were 87.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%; the import and export of beijing daxing international airport comprehensive bonded zone (beijing area) was 730 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.2%.
imports and exports in the beijing-tianjin-hebei region hit a record high for the same period. in the first eight months, imports and exports in the beijing-tianjin-hebei region reached 3.35 trillion yuan, a record high for the same period, up 2.5% from the same period last year and 33.9% from the first eight months of 2014, accounting for 11.7% of the total value of imports and exports in the country during the same period. among them, imports were 2.44 trillion yuan, up 1.3% year-on-year; exports were 905.26 billion yuan, up 5.9% year-on-year. beijing accounted for 71.5% of the total value of foreign trade in the beijing-tianjin-hebei region, with the strongest driving effect.
