Ningbo Customs was informed that the General Administration of Customs "China Customs" magazine released the 2022 "China's top 100 cities in foreign trade" list, Ningbo City, with a comprehensive score of 81.99 points ranked fourth in the country, and continue to rank first in Zhejiang. This is the best result achieved by Ningbo since the establishment of the statistics. The top three cities were Shenzhen (88.57 points), Shanghai (86.67 points) and Suzhou (82.50 points).

The list through the city's foreign trade level competitiveness, structural competitiveness, efficiency competitiveness, development competitiveness and potential competitiveness of the five evaluation system, to measure the overall competitiveness of foreign trade of the city.

Throughout the list, the foreign trade city "the strong is always strong".

Last year, China's foreign trade "trillion club" members are still "old faces". By Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Suzhou, Dongguan, Ningbo, Guangzhou, composed of the "seven stars", not only ranked and status "stable as Mount Taishan", but also contributed to the cumulative national import and export volume of 45%, is the mainstay of China's foreign trade and stable growth.

In the top 100 list, the eastern region is still a big leader, 60 cities were shortlisted in 2022, an increase of 1 city compared with 2021, of which Shenzhen, Shanghai and Suzhou are in the top three for two consecutive years.

On the contrary, Ningbo has always launched an attack to the top five in the past three years: in 2020, the list of "China's top 100 cities in foreign trade", Ningbo's comprehensive score of 75.5 points, ranked 8th in the country; in 2021, among China's top cities in foreign trade, Ningbo led the way with an increase of 21.6% in the volume of imports and exports, and for the first time, Ningbo ranked among the "trillion-dollar club". "trillion club", become the "sixth city", and Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Suzhou, Dongguan, Guangzhou, etc. become China's open economy, "the golden beams of the sea", showing the It has demonstrated the hardcore power of a modern international port city.

Statistics show that in 2022, Ningbo completed the total foreign trade import and export amounted to 1.27 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.3% year-on-year. Among them, exports amounted to 823.06 billion yuan, an increase of 8%; imports amounted to 444.07 billion yuan, an increase of 3.4%. Ningbo's foreign trade exports accounted for 3.42% of the country.

In the past year, Ningbo has 25903 enterprises with import and export records, continuing the pattern of "thousands of troops and horses doing foreign trade". Among them, private enterprises are full of vitality. In 2022, the import and export volume of private enterprises was 923.75 billion yuan, up 10.1% year-on-year, accounting for 72.9% of the city's total import and export volume, and continuing to play the role of the main force.

Jiang Yubing, a researcher at the Great Wall Institute for Enterprise Strategy, pointed out that as the city of individual champions, Ningbo has 83 national-level individual champion enterprises, the first in the country for five consecutive years. "With the world's largest port at its back and strong industrial support of its own, Ningbo's leap to the nation's fourth city is in line with expectations."

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