August 14, 2009
China's import and export results improve in July
China's exports continued to shrink last month, but at a smaller rate. Imports continued a third month rally. Analysts say the figures show positive signs of a rebound and recovery of the country's import and export.
Officials say July's import and export results continued to improve.
Zheng Yuesheng, Statistics Dept. director of General Administration of Customs, said, "In July's results, two figures were pretty good. One was that exports in July exceeded 100-billion US dollars, the first time this year. The other was that imports in July increased for the third month by 3 percent. These results were the best among the major economies in the world. They also showed that China's economy has been an important support for the world economic recovery."
Export of textile and other labor-intensive products achieved double-digit growth for the second month.
Huang Guohua, analyst of General Administration of Customs, said, "In a recessional economy, demand for basic life necessities will not drop significantly. Labor intensive industries are also where China has advantages and enjoys very stable market shares."
China's export of high-tech products, machinery and electronic products decreased because of rising material costs. China also intentionally curbed exports of high-polluting and high energy consuming products like steel and cement.
At the same time, IT products such as computers achieved export growth, which analysts attribute to material cost cuts.
Huang said, "According to our analysis, it's because prices of materials like chips and circuits tumbled, giving Chinese made computers price advantages."
Among imported goods, iron ore, crude oil and beans were on the rise in July. Overall, the recovering trend of China's imports and exports is clear. Exporters are encouraged to adjusted their product structure according to international demand. There should also be more efforts to develop more export destinations in South Asia, the Middle East and South America.
2009-08-11 18:55 BJT - Editor: Liu Anqi | Source: CCTV.com
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