Yesterday, it was learned from the Municipal Bureau of Commerce that according to the preliminary statistics of Dalian Customs, the import and export of our city in the first two months was 76.37 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.5%, which was 26.7 percentage points higher than that of the whole country and 19.3 percentage points higher than that of the whole province. Among them, exports were 37.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.9%; Imports were 38.47 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.4%. Among the 15 sub-provincial cities, our city's import and export volume ranks 9th, up one place from the same period last year; The growth rate of import and export ranked first, up 14 places from the same period last year. The import and export volume and growth rate are the best levels in recent years.

The proportion of entrepot trade has increased significantly. In the first two months, the import and export volume of bonded entrepot trade in our city reached 20.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 189.4%, accounting for 26.5%, an increase of 14.1 percentage points over the same period of last year. General trade import and export was 38.72 billion yuan, an increase of 0.6%, accounting for 50.7%, a decrease of 12 percentage points from the same period last year. The import and export of processing trade was 16.75 billion yuan, an increase of 12.7%, accounting for 21.9%, a decrease of 2.4 percentage points from the same period last year.

The growth rate of state-owned enterprises is higher than that of the whole city. In the first two months, the import and export of state-owned enterprises was 8.21 billion yuan, an increase of 58%, accounting for 10.8%, an increase of 2.3 percentage points over the same period last year; The import and export of foreign-funded enterprises was 25.41 billion yuan, an increase of 32.6%, accounting for 33.3%, an increase of 2 percentage points over the same period last year; The import and export of private enterprises in our city was 42.46 billion yuan, an increase of 17.6%, accounting for 55.6%, down 4.6 percentage points from the same period last year.

Ship products drive export growth. In the first two months, mechanical and electrical products and petrochemical products strongly boosted the export growth of our city. Among them, ship exports were 4.89 billion yuan, an increase of 212.3%, accounting for 12.9% of Dalian's total foreign trade export value. During the same period, bonded futures crude oil developed rapidly, with a total export of 4.11 billion yuan of bonded crude oil. There was no export record in the same period last year. Ships and crude oil drove Dalian's foreign trade exports to increase by 25.8 percentage points.

Petrochemical products account for half of imports. In the first two months, crude oil imports were 19.16 billion yuan, an increase of 43.3%. During the same period, aircraft imports were 1.02 billion yuan, and there was no import record in the same period last year. The above two major commodities together increased the growth of Dalian's foreign trade imports by 21.6 percentage points.

Emerging markets maintain strong momentum. In the first two months, our city's import and export to Malaysia maintained a strong growth momentum, with the import and export reaching 9.06 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 265.6%. Malaysia became our city's second largest trading partner. In terms of traditional markets, imports and exports to Japan were 11.48 billion yuan, an increase of 4.9%; Imports and exports to the United States were 5.5 billion yuan, an increase of 41.1%.