The export structure is shifting towards a new and optimized direction, and the resilience of foreign trade development is highlighted

Since the beginning of this year, facing a complex external environment, China's export trade has withstood pressure and delivered an impressive performance report, demonstrating the strong resilience and deep confidence of China's foreign trade with concrete data. According to recent data released by the General Administration of Customs, China's goods trade exports reached 9.33 trillion yuan in the first four months of 2026, a year-on-year increase of 11.3%.

In my opinion, this resilience stems from the deep optimization of export structure and the gradual development of industrial upgrading, which is a vivid manifestation of China's foreign trade transformation from "quantity increase" to "quality improvement".

From the data of the past four months, high-tech and high value-added electromechanical products have become the absolute driving force for export growth, with exports increasing by 17.6% year-on-year and accounting for 63.5% of overall exports, fully demonstrating the upgrading effect of China's manufacturing industry.

Among them, the performance of green, low-carbon, and high-end manufacturing products is particularly outstanding. In the first four months, exports of green and low-carbon products such as electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and wind turbines increased by 68.1%, 43.2%, and 40.7% respectively, while exports of industrial robots increased by 30%. Behind the impressive data is not only China's technological breakthroughs and industrial cluster advantages in the fields of new energy and high-end manufacturing, but also a precise response to the global trend of green transformation and industrial upgrading, marking the continuous increase in the international competitiveness of China's green industry and high-end manufacturing industry.

In recent years, China has continuously promoted the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, vigorously developed strategic emerging industries, strengthened the leadership of technological innovation, and laid a solid industrial foundation for optimizing the export structure. From improving the quality and efficiency of traditional labor-intensive products, to leading high-tech electromechanical products, from passive follow-up of low-end OEM, to active "going global" of independent brands, the "gold content" of China's foreign trade continues to increase, and its position in the global industrial chain and supply chain is steadily improving.

Looking ahead, although there is still uncertainty in the global economic recovery, the trend of China's foreign trade stabilizing and improving, and the structure continuing to optimize, will not change. With the continuous deepening of industrial upgrading, the continuous enhancement of technological innovation capabilities, and the steady promotion of diversified market layout, China's foreign trade will continue to release vitality and cultivate more new growth poles. The resilience of exports demonstrates the country's strength, and structural optimization empowers future development. China's foreign trade is injecting strong momentum into the sustained recovery and improvement of the national economy through high-quality development, and also contributing solid Chinese strength to the stable growth of global trade.