Recently, the person in charge of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce introduced the situation of China’s foreign trade from January to December 2017。 

Ministry of Commerce Foreign Trade Department official said that in 2017, the Ministry of Commerce vigorously promote the layout of the international market, the layout of the domestic region, the structure of commodities, business

operators and the five optimization to speed up the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade demonstration bases, trade platforms and international marketing network Three Construction Promote the innovation and development

of processing trade and the gradient transfer and implement a positive and effective import policy. The development of foreign trade has made remarkable achievements, the growth has exceeded expectations, the structure has been

further optimized, and the power shift has been accelerated. The government work report has been satisfactorily completed The goal of promoting foreign trade to continue to stabilize and improve has further contributed to the development of the national economy and society and also played an important role in the world economic and trade recovery. According to the statistics of the Customs, the total volume of China’s import and export in 2017 was 27.79 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.2% over the same period of last year. Among them, the export was 15.33 trillion yuan, up 10.8% over the same period of last year，the import was 12.46 trillion yuan, up 18.7% from the previous year; the surplus was 2.87 trillion yuan, Narrowed 14.2%。 The head of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce pointed out that in 2017 China’s foreign trade mainly highlights the following: First, the growth exceeded the expectation and the growth rate hit a new high in six years; Second, the growth rate is better than the world’s major economies; Third, the trade structure is continuously optimized; Fourthly, The acceleration of the transfer of new and old kinetic energy in the innovation and development of foreign trade; the enhancement of contribution to the development of the national economy and society; and the enhancement of the economic and social development in the country as a whole. The sixth is to play an important role in the global economic and trade recovery。