CCTV News: China's foreign trade growth scale reached 2.1 trillion yuan in 2024. What new momentum is hidden behind these increments? At the beginning of the new year, when the reporter visited companies in many places, he found that China's new products, new business forms and new brands were constantly emerging, and the foreign trade volume contained in "new" continued to rise.

Walking in the hands, backflips, and even Thomas spinning—these difficult movements that once only appeared in film and television special effects are now easily achieved by robot dogs. Not long ago, the reporter saw this new robot dog at a company in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

The relevant person in charge of the company introduced that these performances come from the optimization of motion control and the empowerment of AI technology, and these advantages have also made the products emerge in the global market. The sales of four-legged robots produced by this company account for more than 60% of the global market share. General humanoid robots cover more than half of the world's countries and regions.

Containing "new" volume is becoming the password for the "increment" of my country's foreign trade. In the production workshop of a "national manufacturing single champion" enterprise in Shenzhen, workers are working hard to make digital hand-painted boards exported overseas. In early January this year, the company received nearly 4,000 orders from e-commerce platforms in the United States and the UAE, and all of them needed to be delivered before the New Year.

Xu Hefeng told reporters that since the establishment of the company, it has been deeply involved in the field of digital painting. After hundreds or even thousands of technical polishing and verification, it has overcome difficulties such as brushstroke accuracy and signal transmission stability. Up to now, the company has obtained 54 invention patents, and its foreign trade export volume reaches 340 million yuan in 2024.

my country's foreign trade export structure continues to be optimized, the product's "new" meaning is more sufficient, and new products with more high-tech attributes are accelerated to go overseas. In 2024, my country's exports of electric vehicles, 3D printers and industrial robots achieved growth of 13.1%, 32.8% and 45.2% respectively.

Liang Ming, director of the Foreign Trade Research Institute of the Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce, said that in 2024, our foreign trade will be summarized in one word, which can be said to be the quality and the quantity will be stable, and the contribution will gradually increase. The trade structure is constantly being optimized, and the overall innovation capacity has steadily and greatly improved. Innovation has become a source of vitality for China's foreign trade.