Beijing Youth Daily:

You just gave an overview of China's overall import and export situation. Could you tell us more specifically about the characteristics and highlights of foreign trade across different regions in 2025? Thank you.

Wang Jun:

I'd like to invite Mr. Lyu to answer your question.

Lyu Daliang:

Thank you for your question. In 2025, regions across China leveraged their unique geographical advantages and resource endowments to actively contribute to the steady growth of the nation's imports and exports. The following three points were particularly notable:

First, major foreign trade provinces played a leading role. In 2025, the combined import and export volume of seven provinces and municipalities — Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shandong, Beijing and Fujian — reached 34.11 trillion yuan, up 2.7% year on year. These regions contributed more than half of the country's trade growth, effectively stabilizing the fundamentals of the foreign trade sector. Of this total, imports and exports of high-tech products rose 11.4%, driving the overall trade growth of these seven regions by 2.2 percentage points. Both imports and exports of electronic information goods and high-end equipment saw relatively fast growth.

Second, border regions reached new levels of development. With the continuous expansion of China's opening-up, border provinces and autonomous regions are gradually transforming into new frontiers of openness. In 2025, imports and exports in the nine border provinces and autonomous regions totaled 3.14 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.6%. This growth rate has outpaced the national average for four consecutive years. These border regions also serve as a window for China to deepen cooperation with neighboring countries and regions. Driven by open channels such as the China-Europe Railway Express, the new western land-sea corridor and the China-Laos Railway, imports and exports between border provinces and autonomous regions with neighboring countries reached 1.86 trillion yuan last year, up 6.3% year on year.

Third, key regions fueled further momentum. The high-quality development of the Xiongan New Area has achieved remarkable results, with imports and exports rising rapidly last year and exceeding 70 billion yuan. The Yangtze River Delta region's import and export volume increased 6.3%, raising the region's share of China's total foreign trade to 37.4%. Exports of ships and offshore engineering equipment from the region rose 11.4%, while biopharmaceutical exports increased 6.9%. Both categories accounted for more than half of the nation's total exports of such products. The foreign trade volume of the nine mainland cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area expanded steadily in 2025, surpassing the 9 trillion yuan milestone to reach 9.15 trillion yuan, a 4.7% increase. These cities were responsible for exporting nearly half of China's tablet computers and over 80% of its 3D printers. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has fully leveraged its role as a major regional logistics artery. Imports and exports via the bridge's port reached 325.84 billion yuan last year, up 40.1%. Thank you.