In the first 10 months of 2024, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province’s trade volume with foreign countries totalled 257.98 billion yuan (US$35.5 billion), up 6.6 per cent year-on-year. This us reported by
Dongbeiwang, a partner of TV BRICS.
According to Harbin Customs, exports totalled 68.51 billion yuan (US$9,.3 billion), up 14.5 per cent year-on-year. The value of imports reached 189.47 billion yuan (US$26.08 billion), up 4 per cent year-on-year.
It is noted that trade turnover with member states of Beijing’s One Belt, One Road infrastructure and economic initiative exceeded 224 billion yuan (US$30.83 billion). These countries supplied 173.48 billion yuan (US$23.88 billion) worth of goods to the Heilongjiang market, 16.6 per cent more than a year earlier, while importing 50.6 billion yuan (US$6.96 billion), 7.7 per cent less than in 2023.
In turn, trade with BRICS countries rose 11.7 per cent to 204.89 billion yuan (US$2808 billion) this year. Consumers in Heilongjiang province bought 170 billion yuan (US$27.4 bllion) worth of foreign products, while local manufacturers supplied goods worth 34.36 billion yuan (US$4.73 billion) to the markets of the group. Imports and exports grew by 8.7 per cent and 29.26 per cent respectively.
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