According to statistics from the General Administration of Customs, in the first four months of this year, my country's total import and export value was 13.32 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.8%. Among them, exports were 7.67 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.6%; imports were 5.65 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.02%. In April, my country's import and export reached 3.43 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.9%.
The year-on-year growth rate of imports and exports in the first four months was 1 percentage point higher than that in the first quarter. The customs monthly survey shows that the proportion of enterprises with increased export orders has increased for four consecutive months.
The proportion of general trade import and export has increased. In the first four months, my country's general trade import and export was 8.72 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.5% year-on-year, accounting for 65.4% of my country's total foreign trade value, an increase of 1.6 percentage points over the same period last year.
ASEAN continues to be my country's largest trading partner. In the first four months, the total trade value between my country and ASEAN was 2.09 trillion yuan, an increase of 13.9%. The EU is my country's second largest trading partner, with a total import and export value of 1.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.2%. During the same period, my country's total import and export to countries along the "Belt and Road" was 4.61 trillion yuan, an increase of 16%.
The import and export ratio of private enterprises exceeds 50%. In the first four months, the import and export of private enterprises reached 7.05 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.8%, accounting for 52.9% of my country's total foreign trade value, an increase of 4.6 percentage points over the same period last year. The import and export of state-owned enterprises was 2.18 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.7%.
In the first four months, my country exported 4.44 trillion yuan of mechanical and electrical products, an increase of 10.5%, accounting for 57.9% of the total export value. Among them, automobiles were 204.53 billion yuan, an increase of 120.3%.