General

On March 16th, according to Urumqi customs data, from January to February this year, Xinjiang's total foreign trade import and export value was 44.39 billion yuan, an increase of 86.4% compared to the same period last year, 87.2 percentage points higher than the national growth rate, ranking first in year-on-year growth.

According to customs data, in the first two months of this year, Xinjiang's foreign trade exports reached 38.15 billion yuan, an increase of 91.6%; Import reached 6.24 billion yuan, an increase of 59.8%. Export commodities are mainly concentrated in labor intensive products such as textiles and clothing, shoes and boots, and mechanical and electrical products, which together accounted for 84.6% of Xinjiang's total foreign trade export value during the same period. At the same time, the export momentum of new energy products accelerated to release, with the export of new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar batteries increasing by 735.3%, 59.3%, and 75.8 times, respectively.

According to customs data, in the first two months, the total import and export value of Xinjiang to the five Central Asian countries reached 35.17 billion yuan, an increase of 96.5%, accounting for 79.2% of Xinjiang's total foreign trade import and export value. Among them, Kazakhstan surpassed Kyrgyzstan and became Xinjiang's largest trading partner again, with an increase of 118.9%, accounting for 34.9%; Import and export to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan ranked second and third, with an increase of 76.8% and 151.8% respectively. Over the same period, Xinjiang's import and export to countries along the "the Belt and Road" reached 40.65 billion yuan, an increase of 84.8%, accounting for 91.6%.

According to Urumqi customs data, as of the end of February, there were 15308 registered foreign trade enterprises in Xinjiang, an increase of 7.3%; There were 1276 foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance, an increase of 13.9%. According to customs data, in the first two months, the import and export of private enterprises in Xinjiang reached 42.7 billion yuan, an increase of 99.7%, accounting for 96.2%, driving an increase of 89.5 percentage points in the total import and export value of Xinjiang's foreign trade during the same period.

Since this year, Xinjiang has given full play to the advantages of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, focusing on promoting the construction of "one port, two regions, five centers, and port economic belt", innovating the open economic system, helping to maintain stability and improve quality in foreign trade, and effectively supporting the growth trend of foreign trade.

According to Li Qinghua, Deputy Director of Urumqi Customs, in 2022, the customs successively introduced a series of measures, including innovative pilot projects, "1+13" reform measures to replicate advanced experience, 16 (42) measures to promote the stability and quality of Xinjiang's foreign trade, 13 implementation measures to promote the high-quality development of Xinjiang's export-oriented agriculture, and 40 working measures to promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade in Xinjiang, to steadily promote the stability and quality of foreign trade, port connectivity and smoothness Key tasks such as helping enterprises to rescue and reduce costs, compressing the overall customs clearance time at ports, and ensuring the efficient operation of the China-EU train have promoted Xinjiang's foreign trade to achieve reasonable growth in quantity and effective improvement in quality.

"This year, Urumqi Customs will actively promote the implementation of key work in such aspects as strengthening logistics along with the potential of location, taking advantage of the potential of opportunities to optimize the environment, gathering the potential of platforms to strengthen industries, consolidating the foundation based on the potential of resources, and expanding cooperation to promote win-win results, and make more customs contributions to fully promote the high-quality development of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the high-level opening up of Xinjiang." Li Qinghua said.