Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 9th. Title: The cumulative growth rate has continued to rise, and the foreign trade market is generally stable - a perspective on my country's import and export data in the first four months

Xinhua News Agency reporters Zou Duowei and Zhang Xiaojie

The General Administration of Customs released data on May 9th: In the first four months of this year, my country's total import and export value of goods was 14.14 trillion yuan, and the year-on-year growth rate continued to rise to 2.4%, an accelerated by 1.1 percentage points from the first quarter. Among them, the year-on-year growth rate of total import and export value, export volume and import volume in April achieved positive growth.

In 2025, my country's imports and exports started under pressure, from a year-on-year decrease of 2.2% in January to a decrease of 1.2% in the first two months. The situation improved after entering March. Imports and exports in the first quarter changed from negative to slightly increased by 1.3%, and further increased to 2.4% in the first four months.

Lu Daliang, Director of the Statistical Analysis Department of the General Administration of Customs, believes that since the beginning of this year, all localities and departments have worked together to effectively respond to external shocks, promote the continued recovery and improvement of my country's economy, and continue the steady growth trend of foreign trade.

As for China's foreign trade performance, Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao and Deutsche News Agency, many foreign media such as "exceeding expectations". Especially on the export side, Reuters said in a report that in the face of uncertainty brought about by US tariff policies, China's exports remained close to double-digit growth in April, indicating that a number of policy measures recently introduced intensively have played a positive effect.

The data released on that day showed positive signals from many aspects.

———Speed ​​up to climb to "high". In the first four months, my country's exports of high-tech products increased by 7.4% year-on-year, accounting for nearly 20% of exports, driving overall export growth by 1.3 percentage points. Among them, export ships and marine engineering equipment, industrial robots and wind turbines increased by 16.4%, 58.3% and 45.5% respectively.

——Continue to deepen the "expand" outward. At present, my country's economic and trade relations with neighboring countries are becoming increasingly close. In the first four months, imports and exports to neighboring countries increased by 5.1% year-on-year, accelerating by 1.6 percentage points from the first quarter. Among them, imports and exports to the five largest trading partners ASEAN and Central Asia increased by 9.2% and 9.9% respectively.

——The vitality of the "main force" is improved. In the first four months, my country had 492,000 private enterprises with import and export performance, an increase of 8.2% year-on-year, accounting for nearly 90% of the number of enterprises with import and export performance, with a total import and export growth of 6.8%, accounting for 56.9% of my country's total import and export value, driving my country's overall import and export growth by 3.7 percentage points during the same period.

Bai Ming, a researcher at the Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce, said that at present, my country's foreign trade is facing a complex and severe external situation, and the negative impact of the US government's abuse of tariffs on corporate orders has begun to appear, but the overall stable market of my country's foreign trade has not changed. Bai Ming said that in the next stage, on the one hand, we must make every effort to ensure that the international market share will not decrease through market diversification and other means, effectively resolve and hedge the negative impact of tariffs; on the other hand, we must respond with "change", seize new development opportunities such as digitalization of international trade, vigorously expand new models and new business forms such as cross-border e-commerce, bonded maintenance, bonded remanufacturing, and actively cultivate new growth points.

In recent times, the Party Central Committee has implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee on "stabilizing foreign trade" and "accelerating the integration of domestic and foreign trade", and a series of policy "combination punches" have been introduced to provide strong support for the stable development of my country's foreign trade -

Increase support for enterprises that are more affected by tariffs, including market channels, domestic consumption, finance, and service guarantees; provide more public information services for foreign trade enterprises, and continuously improve the overseas trade service system; further expand the underwriting scale and coverage of export credit insurance, and guide financial institutions to increase financing support for foreign trade enterprises; promote the upgrading of the construction of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones...

Unswervingly do your own thing well and respond to the uncertainty of sharp changes in the external environment with the certainty of high-quality development. "China's foreign trade has confidence and confidence to deal with various risks and challenges." said He Yongqian, spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce.