This Year'S Foreign Trade Target Was Originally Set At 8%, A 0.5 Percentage Point Reduction In Weight.

In 2013, the total volume of imports and exports increased by about 8%. Expected target The government's work report was not included in the plan report only. "The expected growth of imports and exports this year (2014) is about 7.5%". The report indicates that the central government hopes to make joint efforts through external demand and domestic demand, so as to ensure the determination to achieve the expected growth rate of GDP this year. The decision-making level originally hoped that this year's foreign trade preset target will be "about 8%", and the final reduction by 0.5 percentage points.

In addition, this year's Government Work report The special task of opening up a new situation of high level opening to the outside world has been placed in second of the nine key tasks of the year. The first task is "reform", which fully demonstrates the importance of opening up to the outside world this year. In the past government work report, the content of opening to the outside world is usually placed at the end of the key work of the year.

2013, China Import and export Its total value exceeded US $4 trillion for the first time to become the world's largest commodity trading country, but it increased by 7.6% over the same period after deducting exchange rate factors. Last year, the contribution rate of net exports of goods and services to GDP growth was only -4.4%, and the total contribution rate of final consumption and capital formation was 50% and 54.4% respectively.

According to customs statistics, in the 1-2 months of this year, the total value of imports and exports was 3 trillion and 870 billion yuan, an increase of 0.9% over the same period last year. In February, the total value of imports and exports dropped by 7.5% over the same period last year.

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In the first half of last year, the arbitrage trade pushed up the base of foreign trade. In addition, this year coincided with the Spring Festival holiday in February this year, which affected imports and exports. The import and export of foreign trade in Guangdong dropped by 15.3% over the first two months of this year, and the number of imports and exports had dropped by more than 10%.

Yesterday, customs Guangdong Branch issued foreign trade data. In the first 2 months of this year, the total value of foreign trade and import and export in Guangdong was 890 billion 570 million yuan, down 15.3% from the same period last year, accounting for 23% of the total foreign trade value of the same period. Among them, exports were 523 billion 980 million yuan, down 14.2%; imports 366 billion 590 million yuan, a decrease of 16.9%; the surplus was 157 billion 390 million yuan, narrowing 7.3%.

Guangdong's import and export of processing trade dropped sharply, while general trade was in good shape, showing a phenomenon of "ice and fire". Data show that in the first 2 months, the import and export volume of processing trade was 425 billion 510 million yuan, a sharp decrease of 15%, accounting for 47.8% of the total import and export value of Guangdong in the same period, which was basically the same as last year.

Guangdong's general trade import and export situation is good, import and export 359 billion 20 million yuan, an increase of 15%, accounting for 40.3%, an increase of 10.7 percentage points. Customs officials said that the processing trade and general trade "double cold days" in foreign trade originated from the comprehensive factors such as industrial transformation and upgrading, enterprise adjustment strategy and so on.