CCTV News: In April, the export momentum of high value-added products such as new energy vehicles and consumer electronics was strong, and foreign trade operations showed strong resilience and vitality.
In April, national port transportation continued to improve, with equipment operating rates up 7.65 percentage points year-on-year and 1.61 percentage points month-on-month. Among the ten provinces with the busiest port operations, five coastal provinces including Tianjin and Zhejiang, leveraging their traditional port hub advantages, saw robust container throughput. Meanwhile, Beijing, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Guizhou, and Sichuan, relying on the rapid development of the Western Land-Sea Corridor, China-Europe Railway Express, bonded zones, and port logistics, are becoming new engines for foreign trade growth.
Shen Chunfeng, a big data expert at Rootcloud Technology, stated that port equipment operating rates have formed a pattern of “coastal + inland” multi-point blossoming, with foreign trade shifting from a “coastal solo” to a new landscape of coordinated nationwide efforts, and the resilience of cross-border supply chains continues to strengthen.
Data from the National Information Center shows continuous improvement in goods exports. In April, the departure deadweight tonnage of cargo ships from major ports increased by 42.1% year-on-year, with the growth rate rising 41.7 percentage points from March. In April, the average daily number of international cargo flights increased by 2.2% month-on-month, indicating an improvement in exports of high-value products represented by consumer electronics.
Facing a complex external environment, China’s foreign trade operations have demonstrated strong resilience and vitality, particularly with a good export momentum for high value-added products. Experts believe this reflects both the strong international market demand for Chinese goods and the increasingly prominent advantages of China’s industrial and supply chains under the continuous support of a series of policies.
Xing Yuguan, Associate Researcher at the Big Data Development Department of the National Information Center under the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that overall, driven synergistically by stock and incremental policies in April, the momentum of coordinated improvement in domestic and external demand was consolidated, market expectations remained stable, the pace of fostering new quality productive forces accelerated, and China’s economy showed a positive trend of optimized structure, renewed business formats, and stable expectations.
