reply Fujian's foreign trade with countries building the "Belt and Road" continues to grow,

FUZHOU, Jan. 13 (Xinhua Long Min) - According to the Fuzhou Customs informed on the 13th, in 2023, Fujian Province to build a "Belt and Road" countries import and export amounted to 1 trillion yuan (CNY, hereinafter the same), a year-on-year increase of 2.6%, accounting for 51% of the total value of import and export of Fujian Province, compared with 2022 to improve 1.4 percentage points.　　According to statistics, in 2023, Fujian Province's foreign trade import and export amounted to 1.97 trillion yuan, a year-on-year decline of 0.2%, of which, exports amounted to 1.18 trillion yuan, a decline of 2.7%. From the quarterly point of view, the scale of foreign trade climbed quarter by quarter, the fourth quarter of the good trend is obvious; from the monthly point of view, December month import and export of 182.82 billion yuan, the scale of the year's single-month high.　　Fuzhou Customs relevant person in charge said, Fujian Province, foreign trade to withstand the weakening of external demand and high base and other multiple pressures, 2023 import and export to maintain stable development, showing the basic characteristics of the "disk stable" and "structural superiority" of the positive changes, especially in the fourth quarter to the good! The trend is obvious.　　Lithium-ion batteries, solar batteries, electric passenger cars and other "new three" strong export power, Fujian Province, foreign trade import and export of new growth points. Last year, Fujian Province exported 518.52 billion yuan of electromechanical products, an increase of 11.9%, of which the "new three kinds of" commodities exported a total of 136.56 billion yuan, an increase of 49.8%.　　At the same time, Fujian Province, ship exports show good growth, ship exports increased by 44.9% year-on-year.　　The contribution of private enterprises to foreign trade continues to strengthen.2023, Fujian Province, private enterprises import and export 1.15 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.7% year-on-year, accounting for 58.5% of the total value of foreign trade imports and exports in Fujian Province during the same period.　　At the beginning of the new year, Fujian from supporting enterprises to expand the market to stabilize the order, promote around the stabilization of stock to promote incremental, strengthen the export risk protection, and other aspects of stabilizing foreign trade, and strive to fight for the first quarter of the economy "open the door to red".　　The person in charge of the Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce said, encourage local foreign trade with the actual introduction of policies to support the "new three kinds" of products to expand exports, support cross-border e-commerce, market procurement, bonded logistics, second-hand cars, barter trade and other new forms of business to speed up the development of the cultivation of the main body of foreign trade, and actively expand imports and exports.