People's Daily reporter learned from Shanghai Customs that in the first five months of this year, the total import and export value of foreign trade in the Yangtze River Delta region reached 6.4 trillion yuan, reaching a historic high with a year-on-year increase of 6.1%, accounting for 36.6% of the total import and export value of the country.
According to reports, among them, the import and export to countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road" was 2.87 trillion yuan, up 8.1% year on year, accounting for 34.5% of the total import and export value of countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road" in the same period; Import and export to other member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) reached 1.96 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.5%, accounting for 37.1% of the total import and export value of the country to other RCEP member countries during the same period. The import and export of high-tech products reached 1.56 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%, accounting for 35.2% of the total import and export value of similar goods in China.
