View of Chengdu High-Tech Comprehensive Bonded Zone, which saw a 23 percent surge in trade to $14.9 billion in the first half of this year.
Central and western provinces in China saw a relatively high increase in imports and exports despite the decline in country’s foreign trade in the first half of this year.
Total trade volume of the 18 provinces in the regions reached 1,600 billion yuan ($259 billion), a year-on-year increase of 17.5 percent, according to the country’s General Administration of Customs.
Foreign trade in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, for instance, maintained rapid growth during the period as Chengdu High-Tech Comprehensive Bonded Zone registered huge trade volume driven by its high-end manufacturing, logistics, R&D and maintenance.(…)
