According to the statistics of Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs, from January to August this year, Guangdong's foreign trade import and export amounted to 5.27 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.6%. Among them, the export reached 3.34 trillion yuan, up 4.9%; Imports totaled 1.93 trillion yuan, down 6.1%. General trade grew rapidly. From January to August, Guangdong's general trade import and export reached 2.87 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.1%, 3.5 percentage points faster than Guangdong's overall import and export, accounting for 54.4% of Guangdong's total import and export value; Processing trade declined by 1.4%, accounting for 25.9%; Bonded logistics increased by 3.1%, accounting for 16.2%. Private enterprises accounted for more than half of the total. From January to August, the import and export of Guangdong state-owned enterprises increased by 16%, accounting for 6%; Private enterprises decreased by 0.7%, accounting for 56.2%; Foreign invested enterprises increased by 0.6%, accounting for 37.6%. Guangdong's import and export to Europe and the United States achieved double-digit growth. From January to August, Guangdong's import and export to ASEAN reached 830.28 billion yuan, up 3.8%; Imports and exports to the United States, the European Union and Taiwan increased by 12.5%, 10% and 2.9% respectively; For Hong Kong, China, down 12.9%. In terms of exports, from January to August, Guangdong's exports of electric manned vehicles increased by 1.8 times, and lithium ion batteries increased by 51.3%. In addition, exports of other major mechanical and electrical products increased, such as electrical equipment by 20.1%, automatic data processing equipment and its parts by 13.6%, and mobile phones by 1.5%. Over the same period, Guangdong's export of labor-intensive products increased by 3.3%, including shoes, bags and toys, which increased by 19.4%, 17.8% and 14.2% respectively. In terms of import, the import of agricultural products, crude oil, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and other important living and production commodities increased. From January to August, Guangdong's imports of agricultural products increased by 11%, of which the imports of grain and aquatic products increased by 9.3% and 16.1% respectively; The volume of imported crude oil increased by 25.4%. Over the same period, the import of semiconductor manufacturing equipment was 12.79 billion yuan, an increase of 33.6%, and automatic data processing equipment and its components increased by 1.8%. (Liu Xinshe)