Aerial photo taken on March 19, 2021 shows a Yuxin'ou (Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe) China-Europe freight train setting out from the Tuanjie Village Station of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
CHONGQING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- China's Chongqing Municipality saw its foreign trade total 304.77 billion yuan (about 47.23 billion U.S. dollars) in the first five months of this year, customs data showed.
The figure marks a robust increase of 39.9 percent over the same period last year, according to Chongqing Customs.
Exports surged 42.6 percent to 190.04 billion yuan, while imports reached 114.73 billion yuan, up 35.6 percent year on year.
Chongqing's trade with major trading partners including ASEAN, the European Union and the United States respectively hit 49.55 billion yuan, 46.93 billion yuan and 44.97 billion yuan over the period, up 23.9 percent, 31.4 percent and 43.8 percent. Enditem
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