Guangming Daily: By 2025, Shanghai will achieve a historical high of 4.51 trillion yuan in foreign trade imports and exports

According to Shanghai Customs statistics, by 2025, Shanghai will achieve a foreign trade import and export of 4.51 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.6%, reaching a historic high.
Statistics show that in 2025, Shanghai's import and export growth rate will be 1.8 percentage points higher than the national average, and its export growth rate will lead the country by 4.7 percentage points, ranking first among the five major foreign trade provinces and cities in terms of growth rate. Compared with 2020 at the end of the 13th Five Year Plan, Shanghai's foreign trade has increased by over 1 trillion yuan, which exceeds the total trade value between Shanghai and the European Union for the whole year and is equivalent to "adding another largest trading partner".
By 2025, Shanghai will achieve growth in imports and exports to 167 countries and regions, with double-digit growth rates in imports and exports to emerging markets such as Africa, India, and ASEAN. The 'Billion level Trading Partner Club' continues to expand, with the number of members increasing to 49. At the same time, new forms of foreign trade represented by cross-border e-commerce and bonded maintenance are flourishing, becoming new driving forces for optimizing trade structure.
The "new three types" representing high-end manufacturing have risen against the trend, with an export value of 156.67 billion yuan. Among them, the export scale of electric vehicles has exceeded 100 billion yuan, especially the export of hybrid vehicles has increased significantly by nearly 1.5 times. The export of some cutting-edge industries has formed a leading advantage, with the export of high-end machine tools increasing by nearly 30%, the export of industrial robots increasing by over 40%, and the export of surgical robots showing explosive growth, with an increase of 3.7 times, indicating that Shanghai Manufacturing is accelerating its transition towards "Shanghai Intelligent Manufacturing".
The Shanghai Open Platform and various districts have worked together to build a stable development matrix of "multi-point support and global linkage". The total import and export of 10 special supervision areas in the city is 1.87 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.4%, accounting for over 40% of the city's import and export. Among them, the import and export scale of Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone has exceeded one trillion yuan, ranking first in the national special supervision area; The import and export of Yangshan Special Comprehensive Zone increased rapidly by 58.3%. From a regional perspective, the foreign trade scale of Pudong New Area has reached 2.76 trillion yuan, accounting for over 60%. The Songjiang and Minhang districts have both exceeded 250 billion yuan, and the foreign trade growth rates of Qingpu, Yangpu, Putuo, Hongkou, Jinshan and other districts have exceeded double digits, showing strong growth momentum.