China's Foreign Trade Maintains Resilience in First Half of 2025

Strategic Insights -

China's foreign trade has continued to show strong resilience in the face of a complex international situation, achieving total growth, quality improvement, and controllable variables in the first half of 2025. According to Wang Lingjun, deputy director of the General Administration of Customs, the country's imports and exports have been running above 10 trillion yuan for 9 consecutive quarters, with imports and exports increasing by more than 600 billion yuan compared with the first half of last year.

Key Takeaways:

  • China's foreign trade maintained strong resilience in the first half of 2025, achieving total growth, quality improvement, and controllable variables.
  • The country's imports and exports have been running above 10 trillion yuan for 9 consecutive quarters.
  • Imports and exports increased by more than 600 billion yuan compared with the first half of last year.
  • In June, the three indicators of imports and exports, exports, and imports all achieved positive growth year-on-year, with the growth rate also picking up.
  • The scale of imports and exports in June was 3.85 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.2%, the second highest monthly import and export in history.
  • Foreign trade enterprises have seized the new trend of global energy transformation, increasing the supply of high-quality green products and accelerating the development of new fields and new tracks.
  • The export growth rate of lithium batteries and wind turbines exceeded 20% in the first half of the year.
  • China's industrial robot export market share jumped to second place in the world in 2024, and exports continued to grow by 61.5% in the first half of 2025.
  • China has expanded its "circle of friends" and tightened the ties of economic and trade cooperation with more than 190 countries and regions, with 61 partners having a trade volume of over 50 billion yuan.

Statistics:

  • China's imports and exports have been running above 10 trillion yuan for 9 consecutive quarters.
  • Imports and exports increased by more than 600 billion yuan compared with the first half of last year.
  • The scale of imports and exports in June was 3.85 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.2%, the second highest monthly import and export in history.
  • The export growth rate of lithium batteries and wind turbines exceeded 20% in the first half of the year.
  • China's industrial robot export market share jumped to second place in the world in 2024.
  • China's imports and exports to more than 190 countries and regions increased in the first half of 2025.
  • The number of partners with a trade volume of more than 50 billion yuan reached 61, an increase of 5 over the same period last year.

Sources:

  • China.com, July 14th
  • Wang Lingjun, deputy director of the General Administration of Customs
  • China Customs Trade Prosperity Survey