From January to March this year, Guangdong's foreign trade reached 2.04 trillion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 12 percent. Of this total, the export volume was 1.31 trillion, up by 9 percent, while the import volume reached 731.14 billion RMB, up by 17.6 percent, according to statistics released by the Guangdong Sub-Administration of the GACC on April 16.
From January to March, the scale of the province's foreign trade exceeded 2 trillion RMB for the first time in the history of the same period, accounting for 20.1 percent of the nation's total.
Based on these data, in the first quarter of this year, Guangdong's foreign trade maintained the momentum of stabilization since the end of last year. Its import and export scale reached a new high in the same period in history, continuing to rank first in the country and serving as an economic powerhouse in national foreign trade.
Reporter | Nancy Ye, Fanny
Poster | Nancy Ye, Chen Siyuan, Lulu
Editors | Olivia, Nan, Abby, James
