Statistics

Foreign trade in Guangdong province up 30%

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-11-22 10:19

GUANGZHOU - Southern China's Guangdong province generated $627.3 billion in foreign trade in the first 10 months of the year, a 30.1-percent year-on-year increase, the local customs house said Saturday.

Accounting for 26.2 percent of the nation's total foreign trade, the figure included $360.1 billion of exports, up 26.7 percent year-on-year, and $267.2 billion of imports, up 35 percent.

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The province's leading trade partners were China's Hong Kong, the United States, the European Union, Association of Southeast Asian Nations members, Japan and China's Taiwan.

From January to October, Guangdong's trade with the European Union rose 27.4 percent year-on-year to $75.5 billion while trade with the United States climbed 22.2 percent to $80.3 billion dollars.

Its trade with China's Taiwan jumped 34.2 percent year-on-year to $40.4 billion while trade with Hong Kong increased 32 percent to $122.2 billion.