General

On May 5th, the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of the provincial "Business+Finance" joint promotion of high-level opening up. The reporter learned from the briefing that with the continuous assistance of the superposition of business and financial policies, the scale of import and export, export, and import in Shandong Province reached a new historical high in 2022. The "circle of friends" of international trade continued to expand, and the basic situation of foreign trade showed a good trend of stabilizing and improving quality.

According to Gao Honghan from the Foreign Trade Department of the Department of Commerce of Shandong Province, in 2022, the import and export, export, and import scale of the province reached a new historical high, with the international trade import and export scale breaking through 3 trillion yuan for the first time and the export scale breaking through 2 trillion yuan for the first time.

"The main trade markets are expanding from the traditional markets of the United States and the European Union to ASEAN and the the Belt and Road." Gao Honghan said that the "circle of friends" of Shandong trade is expanding. In particular, emerging markets such as the "the Belt and Road" and RCEP countries have developed rapidly. In 2022, imports and exports to countries along the "the Belt and Road" will reach 1294.19 billion yuan, an increase of 38%, accounting for 38.8% of the total import and export value of the province, 9.3 percentage points higher than in 2019; The international trade import and export to other RCEP member countries reached 1274.91 billion yuan, an increase of 23.9%, accounting for 38.3% of the total import and export value of the province, and an increase of 4.7 percentage points compared to 2019.

At the same time, the structure of international trade imports and exports continues to be optimized. Among them, the proportion of mechanical and electrical product exports has increased. In 2022, the province's mechanical and electrical product exports reached 884.03 billion yuan, an increase of 17%, accounting for 43.4% of the total export value and an increase of 1.4 percentage points compared to 2019. Energy and resource products are important imported commodities in Shandong Province. In 2022, the import of 12 major categories of bulk resource commodities in the province reached 695.88 billion yuan, an increase of 10.9%, accounting for 53.7% of the total import value of the province.

In addition, new business formats and models in Shandong are thriving. In 2022, 12 cities including Weifang and Linyi were successively approved as national cross-border e-commerce pilot zones, achieving full coverage of 16 cities in the pilot zones; Qingdao Jimo International Trade and Trade City and Yantai Three Station Wholesale Trading Market have been approved as national market procurement and trade pilot projects, with a total of three in the province; Zaozhuang and Weifang have been approved as national second-hand car export pilot projects, with a total of 4 in the province. There are 20 provincial-level cross-border e-commerce platforms, 30 cross-border e-commerce industrial parks, and 70 public overseas warehouses, respectively. Local vertical e-commerce platforms and import trading platforms such as Xinjinqiao's "Yisha Network", Xinrui Chemical's "First Chemical Network", and the China Japan South Korea Consumer Zone E-commerce Experience Center have developed and expanded.

Next, the Provincial Department of Commerce will adhere to the combination of effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity, focusing on cultivating new business formats, promoting market development, and enhancing relief services, and continue to fully promote the stability and quality improvement of foreign trade.