In the first quarter of this year, the import and export scale of China's goods trade exceeded 10 trillion yuan for the first time in history.

今天（4月12日），国务院新闻办召开新闻发布会，海关总署相关负责人介绍，In the first quarter of this year, the import and export scale of China's goods trade exceeded 10 trillion yuan for the first time in the same period in history。

According to customs statistics, in the first quarter of this year, the total import and export value of China's goods trade was 10.17 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5%. Among them, exports were 5.74 trillion yuan, up 4.9 percent, and imports were 4.43 trillion yuan, up 5 percent. Import and export growth reached a new high in six quarters.

In the first quarter of this year, the number of China's foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance increased by 8.8% year-on-year. The number of private enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises increased by 10.4% and 1%, respectively, and the import and export scale of state-owned enterprises reached the highest value in the same period in history.

In terms of exports, China's traditional fields and new business formats have performed well. In the first quarter, the export momentum of mechanical and electrical products and labor-intensive products was good. The export of mechanical and electrical products was 3.39 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.8%, accounting for 59.2% of the total export value; among them, computers and their parts, automobiles, and ships increased by 8.6%, 21.7%, and 113.1% respectively. In the same period, exports of labor-intensive products were 975.72 billion yuan, an increase of 9.1%.

From the perspective of trading partners, in the first quarter of this year, China's imports and exports to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" were 4.82 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.5%, accounting for 47.4% of the total import and export value. Imports and exports to the other nine BRICS countries were 1.49 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.3%. Imports and exports to the EU, the United States, South Korea and Japan were 1.27 trillion yuan, 1.07 trillion yuan, 535.48 billion yuan, and 518.2 billion yuan respectively, accounting for 33.4% in total.