The reporter learned from Ningbo Customs that from January to November, the total import and export volume of Ningbo reached RMB 1.16 trillion, with a year-on-year growth of 7%. Among them, the export was RMB 755.93 billion, with a year-on-year growth of 8.6%; the import was RMB 409.07 billion, with a year-on-year growth of 4.2%. In November, the year-on-year growth rate of import and export increased from a drop, with the import and export volume exceeding RMB 110 billion.

From January to November, Ningbo private enterprises realized import and export of RMB 844.17 billion, with a year-on-year growth of 10.3%, which was 3.3 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of the city's import and export, accounting for 72.5% of the total import and export volume of the whole city during the same period, and continued to play the role of “main force” in foreign trade.

The EU, the United States and ASEAN remain top three trading partners. During the same period, the import and export of Ningbo to the EU, the United States and ASEAN were RMB 211.53 billion, RMB 199.85 billion and RMB 136.38 billion respectively, with a year-on-year growth of 9.1%, 4.4% and 20% respectively, together accounting for 47% of the city's total foreign trade volume in the same period.

In addition, the import and export of Ningbo to the countries along the “Belt and Road Initiative” was RMB 350.53 billion, with a year-on-year growth of 17.2%, accounting for 30.1% of the total import and export volume; the import and export to other member countries of RCEP was RMB 301.32 billion, with a year-on-year growth of 5.2%, accounting for 25.9% of the total import and export volume.

From the view of export product types, the export of mechanical and electrical products and textile and garment products both achieved growth, of which the export of high-tech products achieved a year-on-year growth of 10.4%. In terms of import, the import volume of basic organic chemicals, unwrought copper and copper material, agricultural products and refined oil all achieved positive growth, among which, the import of agricultural products increased by 19.1% year-on-year, while that of refined oil increased by 118.9% year-on-year. (Reporter Lu Yongxin)