Abstract On the morning of the 10th, the State Council held a press conference and invited the spokesman of the General Administration of Customs, Zheng Yuesheng, to introduce the situation of import and export in 2012. According to customs statistics, in 2012, China’s foreign trade import and export value was 3,866.76 billion US dollars, an increase of 6.2% over the previous year. ...
On the morning of the 10th, the State Council held a press conference and asked the spokesman of the General Administration of Customs, Zheng Yuesheng, to introduce the situation of import and export in 2012. According to customs statistics, in 2012, China’s foreign trade import and export value was 3,866.76 billion US dollars, an increase of 6.2% over the previous year. Among them, exports were US$ 20,489.3 billion, up 7.9%; imports were US$ 1,818.83 billion, up 4.3%; trade surplus was US$ 231.1 billion, up 48.1%. In December, China’s import and export scales both reached record highs. The total value of imports and exports for the month was 366.84 billion US dollars, an increase of 10.2%. Among them, exports were US$199.23 billion, up 14.1%; imports were US$167.61 billion, up 6%; trade surplus was US$31.62 billion, up 91.8%.
In 2012, the overall growth rate of China's import and export of goods trade declined, and the growth rate of imports and exports in 2011 dropped by 16.3 percentage points. From the process of the whole year, the growth rate of import and export showed a trend of slowing down and stabilizing. The performance of import and export increased on a quarter-to-quarter basis, and the growth rate rebounded after the bottom in the third quarter. In the first four quarters of last year, China's import and export value was 859.46 billion, 979.69 billion, 102.7 billion and 1024.91 billion, respectively, with a year-on-year growth rate of 7.3%, 8.5%, 3% and 6.3%.
In 2012, the main situation of China's foreign trade import and export is:
First, general trade has grown steadily, and processing trade has been weak. In 2012, China's general trade import and export reached US$ 2009.83 billion, an increase of 4.4%, accounting for 52% of China's total foreign trade. Of this total, exports were US$ 988.10 million, an increase of 7.7%; imports were US$ 1021.82 billion, an increase of 1.4%. Under the general trade, the deficit was 33.81 billion US dollars, narrowing 62.6%. In the same period, China's import and export of processing trade was 1,34.95 billion US dollars, an increase of 3%, accounting for 34.8% of the total value of China's foreign trade. Of this total, exports were 862.78 billion US dollars, an increase of 3.3%; imports were 481.17 billion US dollars, an increase of 2.4%. The trade surplus under processing trade was US$381.61 billion, an increase of 4.5%.
Second, the trade with the EU and Japan declined. In 2012, the bilateral trade volume between China and the EU was 546.04 billion US dollars, down 3.7%. The bilateral trade between China and the United States was 484.68 billion US dollars, an increase of 8.5%. In 2012, the total bilateral trade volume between China and ASEAN was US$40.09 billion, an increase of 10.2%. The bilateral trade volume between the two ports was 341.49 billion US dollars, an increase of 20.5%. The bilateral trade volume between China and Japan was 329.45 billion US dollars, down 3.9%. In the same period, the bilateral trade value between China and Russia and Brazil was 88.16 billion and 85.72 billion, respectively, up 11.2% and 1.8% respectively.
Third, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other seven provinces and cities accounted for 80% of foreign trade, and the export of the central and western regions increased rapidly. In 2012, Guangdong's foreign trade import and export was 983.82 billion US dollars, an increase of 7.7%. In the same period, the total import and export value of Jiangsu and Beijing (including the central government in Beijing) was 548.09 billion and 407.92 billion, respectively, up 1.6% and 4.7%; Shanghai was 436.54 billion, down 0.2%. In addition, the total import and export value of Zhejiang, Shandong and Fujian were 312.23 billion, 245.54 billion and 155.93 billion, respectively, up 0.9%, 4.1% and 8.6%. The total import and export value of the above seven provinces and cities accounted for 79.9% of the total value of our foreign trade.
From the perspective of exports, in 2012, exports in the central and western regions maintained rapid growth. The export growth rates of the central and western provinces such as Chongqing, Anhui, Henan and Sichuan were 94.5%, 56.6%, 54.3% and 32.5% respectively.
Fourth, the import and export of private enterprises has grown rapidly. In 2012, the import and export of foreign-invested enterprises was US$189.4 billion, an increase of 1.8%, accounting for 49% of the total value of our foreign trade, and its share fell by 2.1% from the previous year. Among them, exports were 102.25 billion US dollars, an increase of 2.8%, accounting for 49.9% of the total value of China's foreign trade exports; imports of 871.25 billion US dollars, an increase of 0.8%, accounting for 47.9% of my total foreign trade imports.
In the same period, the import and export of private enterprises was US$122.106 billion, an increase of 19.6%, which was 13.4 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of China's foreign trade, accounting for 31.6% of China's total foreign trade. Among them, exports were 769.91 billion US dollars, up 21.1%; imports were 451.15 billion US dollars, up 17.2%. In addition, the import and export of state-owned enterprises was US$751.71 billion, a decrease of 1.2%, accounting for 19.4% of the total value of our foreign trade. Among them, exports were 256.28 billion US dollars, down 4.1%; imports were 495.43 billion US dollars, up 0.3%.
5. The export of mechanical and electrical products and traditional labor-intensive products grew steadily. In 2012, China's exports of mechanical and electrical products reached US$1,79.42 billion, an increase of 8.7%. Compared with the overall growth rate of China's foreign trade exports during the same period, it was 0.8 percentage points, accounting for 57.6% of the total value of China's foreign trade exports. In the same period, the seven categories of labor-intensive products such as clothing, textiles, footwear, furniture, plastic products, luggage and toys exported a total of 418.89 billion US dollars, an increase of 8.6%, accounting for 20.4% of the total value of China's foreign trade exports. In addition, the export of steel products was 55.73 million tons, an increase of 14%; the number of automobiles was 990,000, an increase of 20.1%.
6. Imports of energy and resource products increased. In 2012, China imported 740 million tons of iron ore, an increase of 8.4%, the average import price was 128.6 US dollars per ton, down 21.6%; soybeans 58.38 million tons, an increase of 11.2%, the average import price was 599.3 US dollars per ton, up 5.8% . In the same period, the import of mechanical and electrical products reached 782.38 billion US dollars, an increase of 3.8%; of which 1.13 million vehicles, an increase of 9.1%.
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