In the first eight months of this year, the total import and export value of foreign trade in Jiangsu Province was 3.82 trillion yuan, accounting for 12.9% of the national import and export value during the same period, an increase of 5.1% compared to the same period last year, and a growth rate 1.6 percentage points higher than the national average. Among them, exports amounted to 2.55 trillion yuan, an increase of 9%; Imports amounted to 1.27 trillion yuan, a decrease of 2%.

General trade remains stable, while the proportion of processing trade has increased. In the first 8 months, our province imported and exported 2.2 trillion yuan through general trade, an increase of 4.5%, accounting for 57.5% of the province's total import and export value, driving an increase of 2.6 percentage points in import and export. During the same period, imports and exports through processing trade amounted to 1.2 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.9%, accounting for 0.2 percentage points higher than the same period last year to 31.6%.

Private enterprises are growing at an accelerated pace, while state-owned enterprises are experiencing significant growth. In the first 8 months, the import and export of private enterprises in our province reached 1.69 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.6%, with a growth rate 0.6 percentage points higher than the previous 7 months, accounting for 44.3% of the total import and export value of the province. The import and export of state-owned enterprises reached 338.78 billion yuan, an increase of 18.9%. During the same period, the import and export of foreign-invested enterprises reached 1.79 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.1%.

The proportion of imports and exports to countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road" has increased to nearly half. In the first eight months, the province's import and export to the "the Belt and Road" co built country was 1.91 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.3%, driving the province's import and export growth by 4.9 percentage points, accounting for 2.4 percentage points to 49.9% of the province's total import and export value over the same period last year.

The export of the "new three types" has shown double-digit growth. In the first 8 months, the export of mechanical and electrical products in our province reached 1.77 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.6%, driving the province's export growth by 7.2 percentage points and accounting for 69.3% of the province's total export value. Among them, ship exports amounted to 89.1 billion yuan, an increase of 28.6%; The export of "new three types" products reached 121.45 billion yuan, an increase of 10.6%.