Belt and Road countries trade with China passed $1 trillion+ 查看更多
Belt and Road countries trade with China passed $1 trillion
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发布日期:2020-07-01 10:55

China's trade with countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) posted robust growth in 2019, revealing the resilience of the world's biggest trader against economic headwinds, customs data showed.
Trade with BRI partner countries totaled 1.34 trillion U.S. dollars in 2019, up 10.8 percent year on year, outpacing the country's aggregate trade growth by 7.4 percentage points, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC).
According to Chinese Foreign Ministry, China has inked 198 cooperation documents with 167 countries and international organizations under the BRI.
China's foreign trade rose 3.4 per cent in 2019 to 31.54 trillion yuan (about $4.6 trillion). However, in dollar terms China's export growth decelerated sharply to 0.5 per cent in 2019 from a rise of 9.9 per cent in 2018 amid the trade war with the US.
Imports, meanwhile, fell by 2.8 per cent in 2019 in in US dollar terms. In yuan terms, China's exports expanded by 5 per cent in 2019, while imports expanded 1.6 per cent.
