Scale of import and export hit a record high and the high-quality development of foreign trade achieved positive results

According to the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (MOFCOM), in 2018, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, MOFCOM comprehensively implemented the decisions and plans of CPC Central Committee and the State Council, deeply promoted the supply-side structural reform of foreign trade, paid close attention to policy implementation in foreign trade, and successfully held the first CIIE. The import and export achieved rapid growth with the structure further optimized, the power conversion accelerated, and the quality and efficiency improved. The high-quality development of foreign trade achieved remarkable results. The task of “consolidating the healthy trend toward stable growth in foreign trade” put forward in the Report on the Work of the Government in 2018 was successfully completed, which achieved a good start in implementing the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress in the foreign trade and made new contributions to the promotion of economic and social development.