 |
South China Port Reports Record High Foreign Trade Volume
Export and import volume in south China's Zhuhai special economic zone, a border city neighboring Macao, had totaled 9.17 billion US dollars last year, the record high in history and up 45.8 percent than the previous year.
According to the latest statistics by the city's Gongbei Customs, Zhuhai exported 3.65 billion US dollars and imported 5.52 billion US dollars last year, up respectively 35 and 54 percent than the previous year.
The city's export of high-tech products had almost doubled last year, the statistics showed -- they made up over one-fifth of the city's total foreign trade volume.
Last year, the total export and import volume of high-tech products in Zhuhai achieved 2.02 billion US dollars, up 64.2 percent than the previous year.
According to an official source, last year Zhuhai itself produced 15.9 billion yuan (1.9 billion US dollars) worth of high- tech products, accounting for 25 percent of the total industrial product.
In This Section
|