In 2024, private enterprises created "three firsts" in our country's foreign trade field

The latest data from the General Administration of Customs shows that private enterprises have maintained the status of the largest foreign trade operator in our country for six consecutive years, and created "three firsts" in 2024.

For the first time, the number of private enterprises with import and export performance exceeded 600,000 for the first time, reaching 609,000, continuously injecting new forces into the development of foreign trade; for the second time, it was the first time that private enterprises became the largest import and export subject of high-tech products in our country. The import and export of high-tech products increased by 12.6%, accounting for 3 percentage points to 48.5% of the total import and export value of our country congeneric products; for the third time, the proportion of consumer goods imports in our country exceeded 50% for the first time, up 2.8 percentage points to 51.3% year-on-year, of which the proportion of daily chemical products, fruits and other products exceeded 60%.

Throughout 2024, private, foreign investment, state-owned enterprises three categories of foreign trade business entities give full play to their respective advantages, the active level continues to improve, the annual import and export performance of nearly 700,000 enterprises, the number of new highs.

Specifically, as the "main force" of foreign trade, in 2024, the import and export of private enterprises will be 24.33 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.8% year-on-year, accounting for 55.5% of our country's total foreign trade value; the import and export of foreign-invested enterprises will be 12.80 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.5% year-on-year, of which the growth rate in the second half of the year will accelerate by 2.5 percentage points compared with the first half of the year; state-owned enterprises will continue to do a good job of maintaining the "stabilizer" of the smooth operation of the economy and the market, and the import and export of 6.61 trillion yuan throughout the year will play an important role in the import of bulk commodities such as grain and energy.