{"id":714,"date":"2024-04-23T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/?p=714"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:35:23","slug":"hainans-foreign-trade-volume-up-11-3-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/hainans-foreign-trade-volume-up-11-3-in-q1.html","title":{"rendered":"Hainan&#8217;s foreign trade volume up 11.3% in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"news-header\">\n<div class=\"news-header__lead\">Haikou Daily noted that the Chinese province&#8217;s exports reached 22 billion yuan during the first quarter of 2024<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-header__actions\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<div class=\"text-block\">\n<p>HAIKOU \/China\/, April 17. \/TASS\/. The overall foreign trade volume of the southern Chinese province of Hainan in the first quarter of 2024 reached 64.23 billion yuan ($9.04 billion), up 11.3% year-on-year, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Haikou Daily<\/a>\u00a0newspaper reported with reference to data released by the Haikou City Customs Office.<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper, the province&#8217;s volume of exports and imports in the first quarter exceeded 60 billion yuan ($8.4 billion) for the first time. The growth rate of the province&#8217;s foreign trade turnover in the first quarter outpaced the overall growth rate of this indicator for the country by 6.3 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Hainan&#8217;s exports amounted to 22 billion yuan ($3.09 billion) over the period, an increase of 22.8%. The corresponding figure is 17.9 percentage points higher than in the country as a whole. As for imports, they increased by 6.1% to 42.23 billion yuan ($5.9 billion) &#8211; 1.1 percentage points above the average for China as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Hainan&#8217;s largest trading partners in the first quarter were the One Belt, One Road initiative countries. The province&#8217;s foreign trade with them grew 28.5% to 34.12 billion yuan ($4.8 billion) &#8211; 53.1% of Hainan&#8217;s total exports and imports. The province&#8217;s trade turnover with ASEAN countries stood at about 10.7 billion yuan ($1.5 billion). The figure rose 33.5%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inread\">\n<div id=\"_mwayss-deb9bae0dc0dd889fef31fa4e0fd8b641713836101471\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>By the end of the first quarter, Hainan had more than 1,200 companies engaged in exports and imports, customs said. Their number increased by 29.1% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the foreign trade volume of private enterprises rose 20.8% to 38.2 billion yuan ($5.3 billion) during the period.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the government was noted to continue optimizing the province&#8217;s foreign trade structure in the first quarter of 2024, as well as maintaining high rates of exports and imports of electrical and mechanical products, raw materials and consumer goods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haikou Daily noted that t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}