In the first three quarters of 2021, the import and export of Xi'an exceeded 300 billion yuan

According to customs statistics, the total import and export value of Xi'an in the first three quarters was 324.84 billion yuan, an increase of 26.1% year-on-year (the same below), and the growth rate was 15.3 percentage points and 2.3 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter and the first half of the year, respectively. Among them, exports were 171.3 billion yuan, an increase of 32.6%; imports were 153.54 billion yuan, an increase of 19.6%.

Since the beginning of this year, the quarterly import and export scale of Xi'an has increased quarter by quarter, and the import and export value of Xi'an in the first three quarters was 89.35 billion, 116.57 billion and 118.91 billion yuan, an increase of 10.8%, 36.1% and 30.3% respectively year-on-year.

South Korea continues to maintain the status of Xi'an's largest trading partner. In the first three quarters, Xi'an imported and exported 73.14 billion yuan to South Korea, an increase of 8.9%, accounting for 22.5%. Imports and exports with major trading partners have maintained growth. Among them, 39.65 billion yuan for the European Union, an increase of 48.7%; 30.03 billion yuan for ASEAN, an increase of 8.1%; 26.77 billion yuan for the United States, an increase of 43.9%; and 22.34 billion yuan for Japan, an increase of 36.7%. In the same period, Xi'an imported and exported 50.8 billion yuan to countries along the "Belt and Road", an increase of 28.2%.

Foreign-invested enterprises are still the main import and export force of the city, with imports and exports of 207.47 billion yuan in the first three quarters, an increase of 16.6%, accounting for 63.9% of the city's total import and export value. Private enterprises and state-owned enterprises performed actively, with imports and exports of 99.31 billion yuan and 17.39 billion yuan in the first three quarters, an increase of 48.8% and 39.5% respectively.

The import and export pulling effect of the comprehensive bonded zone is obvious, and the role of the high-level open platform is enhanced. In the first three quarters, the import and export of the city's comprehensive comprehensive insurance zone was 210.17 billion yuan, an increase of 21.5%, accounting for 64.7% of the city's total import and export value. Among them, the import and export of Xi'an Guanzhong Comprehensive Free Trade Zone was 118.71 billion yuan, ranking fifth in the import and export value of the national comprehensive bonded zone; the import and export of Xi'an Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Xi'an Aviation Base Comprehensive Bonded Zone both doubled, increasing by 110.4% and 956.8% respectively.

Mechanical and electrical products are the main import and export commodities. Among them, exports were 159.87 billion yuan, an increase of 35.5%, accounting for 93.3% of the city's total export value; imports were 114.08 billion yuan, an increase of 12.1%, accounting for 74.3% of the province's total import value. Coal and lignite imports increased by 28.8% to 5.475 million tons; iron ore and its concentrate to 4.851 million tons, a decrease of 2.2%; soybeans to 587,000 tons, an increase of 21.5%.

Xi'an Newspaper All-Media Reporter Feng Xiaorui