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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
URUMQI, June 18 (Xinhua) — The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region’s foreign trade volume rose 22.9 percent year on year to 227.67 billion yuan in the first five months of this year, local customs said.
In particular, Xinjiang’s foreign trade turnover in May reached 61.81 billion yuan, up 30.8 percent year-on-year.
From January to May this year, Xinjiang’s trade turnover with Belt and Road countries increased by 13.8 percent, accounting for 84.8 percent of Xinjiang’s total foreign trade.
Xinjiang’s largest trading partners were Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The share of trade in goods with the five Central Asian countries in Xinjiang’s foreign trade turnover was 49.5 percent.
At the same time, Xinjiang also significantly increased its trade turnover with ASEAN and the EU. Compared with the same period last year, the figures increased by 91.6 and 55.7 percent, respectively.
Xinjiang’s export volume of electromechanical products increased by 43.8 percent in January-May this year, accounting for 40.2 percent of Xinjiang’s export volume. -0-