The total value of import and export of Yichang during the first two months reached 2.28 billion Yuan, up 49% year-on-year (the same below), among which export and import accounted for 1.91 billion Yuan and 0.36 billion Yuan, up 62.9% and 2.8% respectively, According to recent/latest statistics from the Yichang Custom.
　　The import and export of Yichang were mainly characterized by the following 3 aspects: First, The total value of import and export of Yichang increased to 6.5% of that of Hubei province (35.11 billion Yuan), up 1.7% year on year. Second, the general import and export, with the value of 1.7 billion Yuan, occupied 70% of the total value, up 55% year on year, accounting for 75% of Yichang. The rise of export ranked first, being 60.9%. Third, the import and export of private enterprises increased steadily. The total values of import and export of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises were 0.98 and 0.85 billion Yuan respectively, up 51.5% and 100%, while that of joint ventures was 0.24 billion Yuan, down 15.3%.
　　EU and USA were on the top of the list of Yichang’s foreign trade partners. The total values of respective bilateral trade with EU and USA were 0.31 and 0.3 billion Yuan, up 22.4% and 29.4%, followed by ASEAN, Japan, India, South Korea, Brazil.
　　In the first two months of this year, there were 10 enterprises whose total values of import and export exceeded 100 million, namely, Hubei Xingfa Chemical Group Co. Ltd., Zhijiang Allmed Medical Equipment Co. Ltd., Yidu Xingfa Chemicals Co. Ltd., Angel Yeast Co. Ltd., Hubei Sanning Chemical Co. Ltd., Yichang Jinmei Co.Ltd., Hubei Yihua Fertilizer Co. Ltd., Yichang Haili Foreign Trade Co. Ltd., Yichang Dongyangguan Co. Ltd., Yichang Ship Engines Co. Ltd. (Correspondent: Liu Lingqiao, Reporter: Zhang Liang)