Qingdao set up a joint conference on promoting foreign trade development in 9 and October last year, and exported 19 measures to support foreign trade development. Heavy punches helped export enterprises cope with the severe situation of the financial crisis and played an important role in maintaining the stable development of foreign trade in the whole city.

According to customs statistics, Qingdao's exports continued to maintain a low growth rate in January, and the total export volume reached 2 billion 250 million US dollars, up 2.7% from the same period last year, an increase of 20.2 percentage points higher than that of the whole country, which is 13.1 percentage points higher than that of the whole province.

Footwear exports amounted to $105 million, an increase of 40.5% over the same period last year.

New export products such as export enterprises, textile and clothing, and the demand of the United States, Japan, Africa and other markets have kept steady growth, which has become the main factor to stimulate export growth in Qingdao in January.

First, the newly increased enterprises will stimulate the export growth of the whole city.

In January, the number of export enterprises in Qingdao increased by 1527 compared with the same period last year, resulting in a total export volume of US $229 million, accounting for 12.8% of the total export volume of the city, driving the city's export growth by 10.4 percentage points.

The two is clothing and other five categories of commodities to stimulate the city's export growth of 7.2 percentage points.

Among the major export commodities, clothing exports amounted to $352 million, an increase of 32.4% over the same period last year, textile exports of $154 million, an increase of 12.8% compared with the same period last year, footwear exports of $105 million, an increase of 40.5% over the previous year, exports of water and seafood 98 million dollars, an increase of 17.7% over the previous year, and export of bags and cases of 63 million dollars, an increase of 18.5% over the same period last year.

Three, some market demand has kept steady growth.

For the United States, Japan, Africa and other markets, the growth rate of 22%, 13.2%, and 9.5% over the same period last year also decided the slight increase trend of Qingdao's exports in January.

With the financial crisis continuing to show the economic impact of the world, China's import and export indicators in January showed a sharp decline compared with the previous year, and most of the provinces and cities in the country had a two digit decline in exports.

In the fifteen sub provincial cities, except for the inland cities of Chengdu, only Qingdao and Xiamen (exports grew by 0.8 in January) increased year by year.

Wang Xiaonan: editor in charge