Henan's Foreign Trade Sees Steady Growth in Q1

Henan's Foreign Trade Sees Steady Growth in Q1

同比增长5.1%，河南外贸平稳开局

News from Zhengzhou Customs on April 18 -- In the first three months of this year, Henan's total import and export value expanded 5.1 percent year-on-year to 203.37 billion yuan, ranking 9th in China and 1st in Central China, a good start for steady growth, especially when last year's total value of foreign trade had continuously exceeded 700 billion yuan and 800 billion yuan.

4月18日，郑州海关发布数据显示，一季度我省外贸进出口额达2033.7亿元，居全国第九位、中部第一位，与去年同期相比（下同）增长5.1%，在去年外贸总值连续突破7000亿、8000亿元大关的高基数上，实现了稳增长的良好开局。

A China-Europe freight train in Zhengzhou. [Photo/dahe.cn]

In the first quarter, Henan's exports increased 2.5 percent to 123.41 billion yuan, while imports 9.5 percent to 79.96 billion yuan, resulting in a trade surplus of 43.45 billion yuan, shrinking 8.2 percent. Henan's January-March total imports and exports robustly expanded 19.5 percent year-on-year to 69.93 billion yuan, 13.7 percentage points higher than those of the national average.

今年一季度，全省外贸出口1234.1亿元，增长2.5%；进口799.6亿元，增长9.5%。贸易顺差434.5亿元，缩小8.2%。3月份，全省进出口699.3亿元，强劲增长19.5%，增速高于全国增速13.7个百分点。

Henan's foreign trade structure was further optimized. The imports and exports of general trade and bonded logistics maintained double-digit growth, while processing trade accounted for a smaller share. In the first three months, the import and export value of processing trade decreased 3.3 percent to 124.03 billion yuan (accounting for 61 percent of the provincial total), 5.4 percentage points lower than that of the same period last year, while that of general trade expanded 17.6 percent to 68.83 billion yuan (accounting for 33.8 percent of the provincial total), 3.6 percentage higher than that of the same period last year. Besides, the imports and exports of bonded logistics totaled 9.78 billion yuan, up 68.5 percent from a year earlier.

全省外贸结构进一步优化，其中一般贸易和保税物流进出口保持两位数增长，加工贸易占比减少。今年一季度，全省以加工贸易方式进出口1240.3亿元，下降3.3%，占全省外贸进出口值的61%，比去年同期减少5.4个百分点；以一般贸易方式进出口688.3亿元，增长17.6%，占比33.8%，增加3.6个百分点。以保税物流方式进出口97.8亿元，增长68.5%。

New foreign trade markets were expanding. Henan's trade volume with the RCEP member countries and the countries along the Belt and Road kept growing, although the US, the ASEAN, the EU (excluding the UK), China's Taiwan region and South Korea were still the province's top 5 trade partners. In the first quarter, Henan's import and export trade with the US, the ASEAN, China's Taiwan region and South Korea expanded 12.3 percent, 20 percent, 24.8 percent and 3.5 percent year-on-year to 46.02 billion yuan, 26.83 billion yuan, 20.56 billion yuan and 18.24 billion yuan respectively, while with the EU (excluding the UK) declined 3.8 percent from a year earlier to 22.07 billion yuan. Henan's trade volume with them accounted for 65.8 percent of the provincial total. Besides, Henan's trade volume with the RCEP member countries reported a growth of 3.7 percent to 57.24 billion yuan, while with the countries along the Belt and Road 19.5 percent to 53.78 billion yuan.

新兴外贸市场逐步拓展。美国、东盟、欧盟、中国台湾地区和韩国是我省主要贸易伙伴，但全省对RCEP成员国和“一带一路”沿线国家进出口持续保持增长。今年一季度，全省对美国进出口460.2亿元，增长12.3%；对东盟进出口268.3亿元，增长20%；对欧盟（27国，不含英国）进出口220.7亿元，下降3.8%；对我国台湾地区进出口205.6亿元，增长24.8%；对韩国进出口182.4亿元，增长3.5%。上述市场进出口合计占全省进出口总值的65.8%。此外，一季度，河南省对其他RCEP成员国进出口574.2亿元，增长3.7%。河南省与“一带一路”沿线国家进出口537.8亿元，增长19.5%。

Foreign-invested enterprises accounted for a relatively high proportion of the provincial total, while private and state-owned enterprises saw their import and export value increase. To be specific, the import and export value of private and state-owned enterprises expanded 16.9 percent and 15.9 percent year-on-year respectively to 91.42 billion yuan (accounting for 45 percent of the provincial total, 4.5 percentage points higher that of the same period last year) and 16.96 billion yuan, while that of foreign-invested ones decreased 4.7 percent from a year earlier to 94.54 billion yuan.

在外贸经营主体方面，外商投资企业进出口占比较高，民营企业和国有企业进出口增长。全省外商投资企业进出口945.4亿元，下降4.7%，占同期河南省外贸总值的46.5%；民营企业进出口914.2亿元，增长16.9%，占45%，占比增加4.5个百分点；国有企业进出口169.6亿元，增长15.9%。

A China-Europe freight train in Zhengzhou. [Photo/dahe.cn]

Mobile phones contributed 54 percent to the province's total exports, while labor-intensive products, aluminium products, agricultural products and hair products also saw their exports increase. In January-March period, Henan's exports of mechanical and electrical products stood at 81.64 billion yuan with a decrease of 6.2 percent year-on-year (accounting for 66.2 percent of the province's total exports), of which 66.69 billion yuan was contributed by mobile phones with a decrease of 10.9 percent year-on-year (accounting for 54 percent of the province's total exports), 7.65 billion yuan by labor-intensive products with an increase of 20 percent year-on-year (of which 2.21 billion yuan was made by sewing threads, up 16.9 percent from a year earlier), and 1.59 billion yuan by clothing with an increase of 21.2 percent year-on-year. During the same period, the export volume of aluminium products, agricultural products and hair products reached 6.37 billion yuan, 4.5 billion yuan and 3.97 billion yuan respectively, each increasing 134.3 percent, 91.3 percent and 3.1 percent.

进出口产品大类方面，手机出口占比达54%，劳动密集型产品、铝材、农产品、人发制品出口保持增长。今年一季度，全省机电产品出口816.4亿元，下降6.2%，占全省出口的66.2%。其中，手机出口666.9亿元，下降10.9%，占全省出口的54%；劳动密集型产品出口76.5亿元，增长20%，其中纺织纱线出口22.1亿元，增长16.9%；服装出口15.9亿元，增长21.2%。同期，铝材出口63.7亿元，增长134.3%；农产品出口45亿元，增长91.3%；人发制品出口39.7亿元，增长3.1%。

Spare parts of mobile phones, metal ores and crude oil were Henan's major imports. Over the past three months, the import and export value of mobile phones, integrated circuits, spare parts of audio/video products and display modules of tablet computers accounted for 55.3 percent of the provincial total. 

手机零部件及金属矿砂、原油是主要的进口商品。一季度，河南省手机、集成电路、音视频零件、平板显示模组等4项商品进出口值占全省进出口总值的55.3%。

In the first quarter, Henan's prefecture-level cities also showed a growth trend in their foreign trade businesses, with Zhengzhou, Sanmenxia, Jiyuan, Puyang, Xuchang and Luoyang standing at the forefront, whose import and export value all exceeded 5 billion yuan. Specifically, the import and export value of Zhengzhou saw a year-on-year increase of 1 percent to 145.14 billion yuan, accounting for 71.4 percent of the provincial total, while that of Sanmenxia, Jiyuan, Puyang, Xuchang and Luoyang stood at 7.61 billion yuan, 7.48 billion yuan, 5.61 billion yuan, 5.39 billion yuan and 5.22 billion yuan. The growth rate of 13 prefecture-level cities including Hebi, Puyang and Zhumadian was within the range of 157.9 percent to 7.4 percent, surpassing the provincial average.

全省各地外贸齐发力，郑州、三门峡、济源、濮阳、许昌、洛阳进出口值位居全省前列，进出口规模均在50亿元以上。今年一季度，郑州市进出口值1451.4亿元，增长1%，占全省进出口值的71.4%。三门峡、济源、濮阳、许昌、洛阳进出口值分别为76.1亿元、74.8亿元、56.1亿元、53.9亿元、52.2亿元。从增速方面看，鹤壁、濮阳、驻马店等13个地市进出口增速在157.9%至7.4%之间，超过全省外贸增速平均水平。（中文来源/河南日报 记者/孙静 编译/赵汉青 审校/张军平）