Guangdong's foreign trade scale has reached a new level and the quality has been steadily improved. On January 18, the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs issued the "transcript" of Guangdong's foreign trade import and export in 2022. In 2022, Guangdong's total import and export value was 8.31 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.5% over 2021. Among them, exports reached 5.33 trillion yuan, up 5.5%; Import was 2.98 trillion yuan, down 7.4%. On the whole, in 2022, in the face of complex and severe domestic and international situations, Guangdong will coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, withstand the impact of multiple unexpected factors, and its foreign trade import and export will show strong resilience. On the basis of the high base in 2021, the gross import and export value of Guangdong achieved a positive growth in 2022, reaching a new record high, accounting for 19.8% of the total import and export value of the country, and the scale has been the first in the country for 37 consecutive years. The scale has reached a new high, the quality has also been steadily improved, and the proportion of general trade has been increasing. In 2022, Guangdong's general trade import and export will reach 4.54 trillion yuan, up 5%, accounting for 54.6% of Guangdong's total foreign trade value, up 2.3 percentage points from the previous year; The import and export of bonded logistics reached 1.37 trillion yuan, up 5%. Private enterprises have strong vitality and state-owned enterprises have grown rapidly. In 2022, the import and export of Guangdong private enterprises reached 4.78 trillion yuan, up 2.5%, accounting for 57.6% of Guangdong's total foreign trade value, up 1.1 percentage points from the previous year; The import and export of state-owned enterprises reached 481.76 billion yuan, an increase of 13.3%, 12.8 percentage points faster than the overall growth rate of Guangdong's foreign trade. The international "circle of friends" continues to expand, maintain advantages over traditional partners, and develop vigorously in emerging markets. In 2022, Guangdong's top five trading partners will be ASEAN, Hong Kong, the United States, the European Union and Taiwan, China, respectively. Except for a 9.7% decline in imports and exports to Hong Kong, China, the rest will increase by 9.1%, 5.4%, 4.6% and 1.6% respectively. In addition, the number of countries along the "the Belt and Road" increased by 10.3%, Latin America by 9.5%, and other BRIC countries by 9.3%. The import and export of high-tech products increased significantly, driving Guangdong's foreign trade to the high-end of the value chain. In 2022, the import and export of high-tech products accounted for 38.8% of Guangdong's foreign trade. Among them, the export of new energy products increased rapidly, such as electric passenger cars, solar cells and lithium-ion batteries increased by 4.7 times, 45.3% and 42.6% respectively. "In the new year, China's foreign trade will continue to develop and support the rapid development of the economy. China's industrial chain and supply chain will be restarted. With China's huge market attraction, China will move from a big trading country to a powerful trading country." said Wei Jianguo, vice president of the China International Economic Exchange Center and former vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce. "Although Guangdong's foreign trade still faces many difficulties and challenges, more favorable factors are accelerating to accumulate." Li Kuiwen, director of the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs and secretary of the Party Committee, said that this year Guangdong proposed the goal of 3% growth in foreign trade, which is to better support the "stability" of the country's foreign trade with the "progress" of Guangdong's foreign trade, fully reflecting Guangdong's responsibility as the largest foreign trade province. Xie Baojian, professor of the School of Economics of Jinan University and deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Economic Research Institute of the Special Economic Zone, suggested that: