The release of a positive signal to stabilize foreign trade
Reporter Gu Yang reports: following the March export "vault", in April China's exports continued positive growth.
Customs data released in May 8th showed that in April, China's import and export value of yuan, down 0.3%. Among them, the export of one billion yuan, up 4.1%; imports 827 billion 500 million yuan, down 5.7%; trade surplus of 298 billion yuan, expanding 45.8%.
In the first 4 months of this year, China's import and export value of yuan, down 4.4%. Among them, the export of one billion yuan, down 2.1%; imports of yuan, down 7.5%; trade surplus of $, expanding by 16.5%.
Previously, customs spokesman Huang Songping in an interview with "Economic Daily" reporter said at present, promote the positive factors of the development of foreign trade are accumulating, with stable foreign trade growth measures put in place gradually, this year, China's trade in goods import and export is expected to achieve stabilized to the upside.
The just concluded the 119th session of the Canton Fair in spring also revealed a positive signal to stabilize foreign trade. According to statistics, the Canton Fair export turnover, meeting the number of buyers both rebound and is the first time since 2013 November 114th session of the Canton Fair "double down" is growing, indicating that the new energy industry development of foreign trade is continuously accumulated.
This also confirms the Ministry of Commerce Institute of foreign trade Li Jian, director of the judge. He said that although seasonal factors leading to one of the primary causes for the surge in exports in June 3, but exports in April keep moderate growth, indicating that external demand for Chinese goods are still ongoing, but on the structure and quality of the products will be more demanding.
From the "big into the big out" to "excellent" change, it is the important goal of China's foreign trade transformation and upgrading. In recent years, some of the traditional products through continuous structural adjustment and upgrading, still won the favor of overseas consumers. Data show that four months ago, textile, clothing, toys etc. traditional labor-intensive products export to have maintained a good momentum of growth, the toy export growth of 20%, plastic growth of 7.4%, textiles growth of 5.1%.
China's largest trading partner of the EU's import and export growth is conducive to stable export expectations. The first 4 months, bilateral trade amounted to 1 trillion and 100 billion yuan, a slight increase of 0.3%. Among them, China's exports to the EU billion yuan, up 1.3%. At the same time, China's exports to the United States, ASEAN and Japan and other trading partners have a certain degree of decline.
Although China's foreign trade has maintained a stable, but in the case of the global demand remains weak, the Chinese enterprises will still face uncertain, unstable future." China Foreign Trade Center, deputy director of the Xu Bing, for example, reached in the Canton Fair orders of enterprise, within 6 months in short for ratio is high, up to 82.4%, long for ratio is low, suggesting that the foreign trade of our country still faces many uncertain factors, still need to take precautions, seriously.
Compared with exports, the first 4 months of China's imports are still a relatively large decline. Among them, iron ore, crude oil and copper and other major commodity imports increased, imports of coal, refined oil and steel imports decreased, the main import commodity prices generally fell.
In this regard, the HSBC Greater China chief economist Qu Hongbin said that under the background of commodity prices stabilize, imports fell sharply lower mainly due to the quantity of import commodities, confirm domestic demand recovery is unstable to a limited extent. Domestic and foreign demand pressure is not reduced, domestic demand is more dependent on the support of policy support.
It is noteworthy, in April China's exports of leading indicators of 33.8, than going up the month rose 2.2, the export managers index, new export orders index, managers' confidence index has rebounded, suggesting that in the second quarter, exports are expected to ease the pressure. Previously, the National Bureau of statistics released April Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index PMI for 50.1%, two consecutive months in the expansion of the range, indicating that the company continued to be optimistic about the future development.