CCTV News: This month, a number of economic data for 2024 will be released one after another. On January 13, the General Administration of Customs released data that the total value of China's import and export of goods in 2024 was 43.85 trillion yuan, an increase of 5% year-on-year. The total volume, incremental volume and quality of foreign trade have increased, and the scale has hit a new record high.

In 2024, the total value of my country's import and export of goods was 43.85 trillion yuan, an increase of 5% year-on-year. Among them, the export scale reached 25.45 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%, maintaining growth for the eighth consecutive year; imports reached 18.39 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.3%.

Wang Lingjun, deputy director of the General Administration of Customs, introduced that from the total number, he has successively crossed the two trillion-level marks of 42 and 43. From the perspective of incremental growth, my country's foreign trade growth reached 2.1 trillion yuan last year, equivalent to the total foreign trade volume of a medium-sized country in a year. At present, the growth rate is also relatively fast among the world's major economies.

In 2024, my country's import and export of goods showed many highlights in four aspects: product structure, new products, new business formats, number of business entities and trading partners, and the number of business entities with import and export records hit a new high.

Wang Lingjun said that last year, the export of mechanical and electrical products increased by 8.7%, and the proportion of total export value increased by 0.9 percentage points. More high-tech new products are accelerating their "going overseas", and the export of electric vehicles, 3D printers and industrial robots has achieved growth of 13.1%, 32.8% and 45.2% respectively. my country's foreign trade has both a reasonable growth in quantity and a qualitative and effective improvement.