The foundation of "stability" has been continuously consolidated, and the high-quality development of China’s economy has been solidly promoted

CCTV News:On June 7th, "News Network" reported the latest data of China’s foreign trade import and export, the foreign exchange reserves in May, the issuance of ultra-long-term special government bonds and other new achievements and new progress. The growth of various data is gratifying, and the vigorous development vitality is being displayed in many fields. The foundation of China’s "stable" economy is constantly consolidated, and the momentum of "progress" is gradually emerging.

China’s foreign trade continues to consolidate.

In the first five months of this year, China’s import and export of goods increased by 6.3% year-on-year, and the positive momentum of foreign trade continued to consolidate.

According to customs statistics, in the first five months of this year, the total import and export value of China’s goods trade was 17.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%.

Among them, the export was 9.95 trillion yuan, up 6.1%. Specifically, the export momentum of high-end, intelligent and green products was good, and the export of ships, electric vehicles and household appliances increased by 100.1%, 26.3% and 17.8% respectively. Imports were 7.55 trillion yuan, up 6.4%, of which imports of intermediate goods were 6.07 trillion yuan, up 7.4%.

In May, the import and export volume was 3.71 trillion yuan, up 8.6% year-on-year. The growth rate was 0.6 percentage points higher than that in April.

Customs statistics show that in the first five months of this year, China imported and exported 8.31 trillion yuan to countries that jointly built the Belt and Road Initiative, an increase of 7.2%, accounting for 47.5% of the total import and export value.

In the first four months, China’s total service import and export increased by 16.8% year-on-year.

In the first four months of this year, China’s service trade continued to grow rapidly, with the total import and export of services reaching 2,431.96 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.8%. Among them, trade in knowledge-intensive services continued to grow. 1— In April, the import and export of knowledge-intensive services was 963.72 billion yuan, up 6.4% year-on-year. The areas with rapid growth included intellectual property royalties, personal culture and entertainment services. In addition, travel services have grown rapidly. 1— In April, the import and export of travel services reached 660.03 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 48.6%, making it the largest field of service trade.

In May, the scale of China’s foreign exchange reserves was $3,232 billion.

According to the latest data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, in May, the scale of China’s foreign exchange reserves was US$ 3,232 billion, up US$ 31.2 billion from the end of April, with a steady increase.

Ministry of Finance: 30-year ultra-long-term special government bonds were issued for the first time on the 7th.

On June 7, the Ministry of Finance renewed the issuance of 30-year ultra-long-term special government bonds in 2024 for the first time, totaling 45 billion yuan. According to the issuance arrangement, the bonds issued this time are 30-year fixed-rate interest-bearing bonds, with a total issuance of 45 billion yuan and coupon rate accounting for 2.57%.

The first Central Asian route of domestic passenger plane ARJ21 was opened.

On June 7th, China’s self-developed jet regional aircraft ARJ21 took off from Xinjiang Airport and headed for Tajikistan, which was also the first Central Asian route for ARJ21. Up to now, ARJ21 aircraft has operated a total of 549 routes and safely transported more than 13 million passengers.

A three-year marine garbage clean-up operation was launched in coastal cities.

On June 7, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other four departments jointly issued the Action Plan for Marine Garbage Cleaning in Coastal Cities, proposing to carry out a three-year dragnet cleaning operation in 65 bays of coastal cities across the country, requiring that by 2025, the density of floating garbage on the sea surface will drop significantly, and there will be no obvious large areas of marine garbage.