Chengdu Daily: By 2025, the scale of Chengdu's foreign trade imports and exports will reach a historical high and exceed 850 billion yuan

On January 19th, the 2025 foreign trade data of Sichuan Province and Chengdu City were released. Last year, in the face of profound and complex changes in the external environment, Sichuan's foreign trade development pushed forward under pressure, with a stable import and export scale of one trillion yuan, demonstrating strong resilience and resilience. Among them, Chengdu's foreign trade scale has reached a historic high.

Chengdu High tech Comprehensive Bonded Zone

Continue to maintain the first place in the country

According to statistics from Chengdu Customs, the total import and export value of goods trade in Sichuan in 2025 will be 1.03181 trillion yuan, ranking eighth in the country in terms of scale. Among them, exports have exceeded 600 billion yuan for four consecutive years, and imports have remained above 400 billion yuan for two consecutive years. During the same period, Chengdu's foreign trade imports and exports reached a historical high of 850.23 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.4%.

The open platform has achieved significant results in promoting the development of an open economy. In 2025, the import and export of Chengdu High tech Comprehensive Bonded Zone will reach 525.69 billion yuan, supporting half of Sichuan's foreign trade, with a year-on-year growth of 4.8%. The scale of foreign trade will continue to maintain the first place in the national comprehensive bonded zone.

In 2025, Sichuan's foreign trade operation achieved four major breakthroughs and set new historical highs, which demonstrates the resilience and vitality of Sichuan's foreign trade development. "Xiao Xiaowen, Deputy Director of the Chengdu Customs Statistical Analysis Department, said that firstly, the number of foreign trade entities exceeded 10000 for the first time, setting a new historical high.

The main body of foreign trade is the source of vitality for the high-quality development of foreign trade. According to statistics, there will be 10329 import and export enterprises in Sichuan in 2025, an increase of 13.8% year-on-year. Among them, the number of private enterprises exceeded 9000 for the first time, an increase of 14.8% year-on-year, and the number of state-owned and foreign-funded entities also increased.

Xiao Xiaowen stated that the scale of foreign trade entities continues to expand, which is related to the work of Sichuan's foreign trade education and team building, the continuous expansion of opening up to the outside world, the optimization of the international business environment, and the strong support for enterprises' overseas development. This has also laid a solid foundation for the future development of foreign trade.

Import and Export at Chengdu Airport Port

Goods surpass 700 billion yuan for the first time

The second breakthrough reflects further optimization of the foreign trade structure. Data shows that by 2025, Sichuan's exports of the "new three types" of foreign trade products, including electric manned vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar cells, will reach a record high of 33.77 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 69.4%. At the same time, the import and export of agricultural products have also maintained steady and rapid growth, with 15 types of agricultural products under the "Sichuan brand" achieving their first export.

The third breakthrough indicates that the role of the channel platform continues to play. In 2025, the import and export of goods through Chengdu Air Port will exceed 700 billion yuan for the first time, accounting for 8.6% of the national air transportation, with a proportion increase of 0.6 percentage points. "The scale of import and export through the air port has reached a new high, indicating that the Chengdu International Aviation Hub effect of 'two in one' continuous coordinated and efficient operation has emerged, injecting momentum and vitality into the development of an open economy

The fourth breakthrough is that Chengdu's foreign trade imports and exports have exceeded 850 billion yuan for the first time, setting a new historical high. In 2025, Chengdu's foreign trade will continue to grow steadily and play a prominent role as the backbone of the province's foreign trade operation.