Before May, China's foreign trade mainly showed the following characteristics:

First, general trade has increased rapidly and its proportion has increased. In the first 5 months, China's general trade import and export volume was 7 trillion and 250 billion yuan, an increase of 6.1%, accounting for 59.9% of our total foreign trade, an increase of 1.1 percentage points over the same period last year. Over the same period, the import and export volume of processing trade decreased by 2.4%, or 24.9%, or 3 trillion and 20 billion percentage points, or 1.7 percentage points.

The two is the growth of imports and exports in major markets such as the European Union, ASEAN and Japan, and the growth rate of imports and exports along the "one belt and one way" countries is higher than the whole. In the first 5 months, the EU is China's largest trading partner, with a total trade value of 1 trillion and 900 billion yuan, an increase of 11.7%, accounting for 15.7% of China's total foreign trade. ASEAN is the second largest trading partner of China, and its total trade volume with ASEAN is 1 trillion and 630 billion yuan, an increase of 9.4%, accounting for 13.5% of China's total foreign trade. The United States is the third largest trading partner of China, and the total trade volume between China and the United States is 1 trillion and 420 billion yuan, down 9.6%, accounting for 11.7% of China's total foreign trade. Japan is the fourth largest trading partner of China. The total trade volume between China and Japan is 846 billion 900 million yuan, an increase of 0.9%, accounting for 7% of China's total foreign trade. Over the same period, China's total imports and exports totaled 9% yuan for the countries along the belt and the road, an increase of 9%, higher than the national growth rate by 4.9 percentage points, accounting for 28.8% of China's total foreign trade, and the proportion increased by 1.3 percentage points.

The three is the rapid growth of import and export of private enterprises, and the proportion has increased. In the first 5 months, private enterprises imported and exported 5 trillion and 20 billion yuan, an increase of 11.1%, accounting for 41.4% of our total foreign trade, up 2.6 percentage points over the same period last year.

Four, the export of electromechanical products and labor-intensive products keeps growing. In the first 5 months, clothing exports were 348 billion 60 million yuan, down 0.2%; textiles 327 billion 680 million yuan, an increase of 7.3%; furniture 148 billion 330 million yuan, an increase of 9.6%; footwear 121 billion 870 million yuan, 5.8% growth; 124 billion 130 million yuan of plastic products, 18.6% growth; bags and boxes were 124 billion 130 million yuan; growth was 18.6%; toy yuan yuan, growth;