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A Look at Shandong's Foreign Trade Resilience Through Key Data

Source：Haibao News 09-23-2025 09:00:00

Numbers don't just reflect economic resilience—they also reveal a region's vitality in terms of opening up, industrial upgrading, and new quality productive forces.

Recently released economic data for Shandong's first eight months of this year shows the province maintained steady development momentum. Total imports and exports reached 2.32 trillion yuan, up 5.8% year-on-year, with exports hitting 1.42 trillion yuan (up 5.4%) and imports reaching 904.62 billion yuan (up 6.4%). Among China's top five provinces and cities by foreign trade volume (Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Shandong), Shandong ranked first in import-export growth rate...

According to Qingdao Customs statistics, during the first eight months of this year, Shandong's exports of gaming consoles, electronic components, and automobiles grew by 60%, 12.6%, and 11.8% respectively, forming Shandong's "new big three" export categories.

Particularly noteworthy is that within automotive exports, Shandong exported approximately 32,000 electric vehicles in the first eight months, representing growth of over 60%. Since the beginning of this year, both export volume and value have maintained growth rates above 30% for eight consecutive months.