According to Guangzhou Customs on the 17th, in the first two months of this year, the import and export value of foreign trade in Guangzhou reached 189.62 billion yuan (the same below), a year-on-year increase of 14.3%, achieving a "good start". Guanghuo premium products are selling well worldwide, with a total export growth of 13.7% for foreign trade "new three types" products such as electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products. Customs statistics show that Guangzhou's foreign trade structure continued to optimize in the first two months. Among them, the "circle of friends" of Guangzhou's foreign trade continued to expand. In the first two months, Guangzhou's import and export to countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road" increased by 23.8%, accounting for 5.8 percentage points of the city's total import and export value over the same period last year, reaching 48.5%. Among them, imports and exports to ASEAN increased by 45.2%. At the same time, Guangzhou has maintained strong resilience towards traditional markets, with imports and exports to the European Union and the United States increasing by 22.1% and 9% respectively in the first two months. In terms of export entities, the number of foreign trade entities with import and export records in Guangzhou increased by 8.8% year-on-year in the first two months. Among them, the number of private enterprises increased by 10.1%, and the total import and export value reached 115.97 billion yuan, an increase of 30%, accounting for 61.2% of Guangzhou's total foreign trade import and export value. During the same period, both state-owned enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises performed well, with import and export values reaching 22.7 billion yuan and 47.79 billion yuan respectively, with exports growing by 7.8% and 7.3% respectively. In terms of export products, in the first two months, Guangzhou exported 52.13 billion yuan worth of mechanical and electrical products, an increase of 12.2%. Among them, the total export of the "new three types" of foreign trade products such as electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products increased by 13.7%. At the same time, Guangzhou still has obvious advantages in traditional fields such as textiles and clothing, household appliances, and automotive parts. In the first two months, the export of these products all increased by more than 10%. In addition, in the first two months, the import and export cargo volume of Guangzhou Nansha Port and Baiyun Airport, which are important open hubs in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, increased by 26.7% and 65.3% respectively. (New Society)