The scale of foreign trade in the central and western regions reached a new high, and the regional structure of foreign trade was further optimized.

　　CCTV News:Statistics released by the General Administration of Customs on April 13th show that in the first quarter of this year, the economy of the central and western regions continued to develop, the proportion of foreign trade import and export continued to increase, and the regional structure of China’s foreign trade was further optimized. In the first quarter, the scale of the central and western regions reached a record high in the same period.

　　These days, in the production workshop of a technology company in Yueyang, Hunan Province, workers are operating nervously and orderly on the assembly line, and a balance car is quickly assembled off the assembly line.

　　Recently, under the supervision of Yueyang Customs, 8,100 balance cars were shipped for export and sent to France and Italy.

　　The central and western regions have given full play to their geographical advantages, promoted cross-border transportation facilitation, and continuously improved channel operation and logistics efficiency.

　　These days, in an alloy tool manufacturing enterprise in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, the production equipment is working at full capacity to make orders.

　　Relying on the new foreign trade export routes such as the new land and sea passage in the west, the combined port of Jiangxi and Shenzhen, and the China-Europe train, the import and export trade volume of Ganzhou Port, which is neither along the border nor near the sea, exceeded 17 billion yuan in the first quarter, with a year-on-year growth rate of over 25%.

　　Customs statistics show that in the first quarter of this year, the import and export of the central and western regions of China grew rapidly, with the growth rate being 7.8 percentage points higher than that of the whole country, accounting for 18.6% of the total, and the scale reached a new high in the same period in history. The import and export of the new road and sea passage in the west was 969.52 billion yuan. China-Laos Railway has been playing an increasingly significant role in China-ASEAN trade for more than a year. In the first quarter of this year, it supervised and released 880,000 tons of import and export goods.