The economic and trade ties between Northwest China’s Shaanxi province and countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative have seen rapid development over the past decade, with Shaanxi’s cumulative import and export value with these countries reaching 1.34 trillion yuan ($185 billion) from 2013 to 2023, according to Xi’an Customs.
Statistics from Xi’an Customs show that Shaanxi’s annual import and export value with the BRI countries surged from 41.66 billion yuan to 209.86 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 17.5 percent. Their proportion in Shaanxi’s foreign trade increased from 33.4 percent to 51.9 percent.
During the past decade, Shaanxi’s exports of photovoltaic products to BRI countries increased from 500 million yuan to 11.57 billion yuan, while exports of electric vehicles reached 2.36 billion yuan
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