2008年中国外贸200强

China’s Top 200 Foreign Traders in 2008

2008年,中国进出口企业又经风雨。但无论外部环境如何变化,"优胜劣汰"始终是行业盛衰、企业迭代的不二真理。从这种意义上说,危机之中诞生的"2008年中国外贸200强",虽说不上是狂沙吹尽后的真金始现,却也至少在一定程度上反映了"披沙拣金"的阶段性成果。

The 2008 List of China’s Top 200 Importers and Exporters has been issued by China Customs Monthly and the Department of Policy and Legal Affairs, the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China. China’s import and export value totaled USD 2.5615 trillion in 2008, which is 123 times as much as in 1978. The annual growth rate rolled back to 17.8%, decreasing by 5.7 percentage points. As fi rms around the country suffered from the impact of the global economic downturn, this marked the fi rst time that the rate was lower than 20% since 2001 when the country entered the WTO. In 2008, China’s exports rose by 17.2% over the value from 2007 to a total of USD 1.4285 billion with 207,000 fi rms engaged in export business, which is 13,000 more than in 2007. The country’s imports rose to USD 1.13309 trillion, an annual rise of 18.5%. The average export scale of the top 200 exporters rose by USD 200 million over the previous year to USD 1.84 billion in 2008. And the average import scale of the top 200 importers rose year on year by USD 390 million to USD 2.24 billion. Though the global economic crisis slowed China’s foreign trade, both exports and imports, it also provided opportunities for Chinese fi rms to fi x some of their weaknesses, and some of the successful ones even enlarged their market shares. Thirty-seven fi rms were listed among the top 200 importers for the fi rst time as were 42 of the top 200 exporters.