Customs data show that Shenzhen's foreign trade started well in the first quarter. In the first quarter, the total import and export value of Shenzhen was 796.76 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4%, accounting for 43.3% of the total import and export value of Guangdong Province.

Electricity (new energy vehicles), light (photovoltaic products), lithium (lithium battery) as the current "new three" of Shenzhen's foreign trade, overseas orders continue to grow, and related export industries are growing rapidly. Electricity, light, lithium become the new momentum of foreign trade leaders.

The top ten trading partners increased

Shenzhen's foreign trade import and export characteristics are distinct, the first quarter showed five characteristics. General trade bright, more optimized structure; All of our top 10 trading partners experienced growth; Private enterprises play a prominent role; The structure of export commodities was improved, and green and low-carbon products grew rapidly. Imports of agricultural products grew steadily.

In the first quarter, Shenzhen's general trade imports and exports accounted for more than half, with imports and exports of 411.51 billion yuan. Imports and exports to ASEAN, the European Union and the United States and other six countries and regions showed double-digit growth, the "Belt and Road" along the countries and regions faster growth, imports and exports 204.41 billion yuan, an increase of 23%, accounting for 25.7%. Imports and exports of private enterprises reached 501.34 billion yuan, up 10.6%, accounting for 62.9% of the total.

Shenzhen has made comprehensive efforts to stabilize the stock, deeply explored the potential to expand the increase, actively increased the proportion of new technologies and new products, and continued to consolidate the leading edge of exports. In the first quarter, the export of mechanical and electrical products in Shenzhen reached 386.82 billion yuan, an increase of 20.3%, accounting for 76.5% of the total export value of Shenzhen in the same period. Information and communication and green and low-carbon products showed outstanding performance, with exports of automatic data processing equipment, its parts and components, and mobile phones reaching 54.01 billion yuan and 34.16 billion yuan respectively, up 10.9% and 3.6%; Electric manned vehicles, lithium batteries, solar cells and other "new three" total exports of 21.94 billion yuan, an increase of 120.6%.

New business forms have created new growth areas

Shenzhen has increased the introduction, cultivation and construction of more high-level trade entities and trade platforms, accelerated the development of new business forms and models, and constantly formed new growth points. For example, the use of policy, industry, market and other advantages to accurately serve enterprises, support the export of overseas warehouse business, a large number of Shenzhen products sold to the global market; New business forms such as market procurement and bonded maintenance are hot, and the maintenance business of products such as drones has repeatedly reached new highs. In the first quarter, Shenzhen market purchase trade exports nearly 200 million yuan, an increase of 59%.

Shenzhen promotes the reform of the "Sea and Air Port Flow Plan", promotes the establishment of pre-export cargo handling areas at airport cargo terminals, upgrades and renovates channel gates at Marine terminals, optimizes customs clearance processes such as advance declaration and bayonet diversion, and reduces the waiting time of goods at port terminals. Continue to promote the expansion of the "Greater Bay Area Combined Ports", promote the complementarity of port resources in the Greater Bay Area, and build an efficient and convenient maritime logistics corridor in the Bay Area.

Orders for the "new three" are pouring in

Shenzhen's "new three" foreign trade products, represented by new energy vehicles, photovoltaic products and lithium batteries, have a steady stream of overseas orders, and the role of new industrial momentum in leading foreign trade growth has become prominent. Customs data show that in the first two months of this year, the export of new energy vehicles in Shenzhen Customs area exceeded 3.6 billion yuan, the export of photovoltaic products was nearly 500 million yuan, and the export of lithium batteries was nearly 13 billion yuan, an increase of about 2300%, 64% and 62% respectively. High-tech, high added value, leading the green transformation of "electricity", "light" and "lithium" three categories of products, is becoming a new export growth point in Shenzhen.

At present, the demand for solar cells in the international market has surged, and the solar cell industry with strong competitiveness has ushered in business opportunities. With the advantages of aviation capacity and timeliness, the number of solar cells exported through the port of Shenzhen Airport has been increasing. According to statistics, in the first two months, Shenzhen Airport port exported 4.9085 million solar cells, an increase of 542 times year-on-year.

In terms of lithium batteries, Shenzhen has a complete power battery industry chain, in the power battery materials, manufacturing technology and other segments of the leading level, advanced battery materials cluster successfully selected into the national advanced manufacturing cluster, lithium battery exports continue to grow, strong momentum.