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    February 11, 2020

    China’s coal-rich province reports record foreign trade

    Coal, Commodities China

    North China’s Shanxi province recorded 144.69 billion yuan ($20.75 billion) in imports and exports in 2019, up 5.7 percent from the previous year, local customs authorities said Tuesday.

    Taiyuan Customs said Shanxi’s exports totaled 80.69 billion yuan, down 0.4 percent, and imports increased by 14.6 percent to 64 billion yuan.

    Foreign-invested enterprises played an important role in Shanxi’s foreign trade growth. Their imports and exports increased by 2 percent to 82.35 billion yuan, accounting for 56.9 percent of the province’s total amount. The figure of state-owned enterprises totaled 34.37 billion yuan, up 0.5 percent from 2018.

    Private enterprises’ imports and exports grew by 26.2 percent to 27.76 billion yuan, which accounted for 19.2 percent of the total foreign trade volume of Shanxi…Full Story

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