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The Report on 2021 Rankings for Imports in China Released By Wei Hao, Li Mingxu

I n 2020, despite the epidemic of

COVID-19 impacted the world

heavily, China still accelerated

the pace to expand the opening up, carried out a series of relevant initiatives and measures, and held the third China International Import Expo (CIIE) as scheduled. Before the 4th CIIE, in order to help deep-en the understanding in China and around the world on the development of China’s imports, 2021 Rankings for Imports in China was compiled, which gave analysis on the imports into China from the perspectives of regional import trade, such as by pro vinces, municipalities, cities, sources, industries, customs, high-tech indus-trial development zones, economic and technological development zones, and free trade zones, to provide compre-hensive understanding of the latest de-velopment and trends in import trade in China in 2020.

2020 Rankings for imports by provinces and municipalities in China

Guangdong Province was ranked the first in terms of import value in 2020, namely USD 395.2 billion, accounting for 19.23% of the total imports into China. In 2020, the top five provinces and municipalities in order in China were Guangdong Prov-ince, Shanghai Municipality, Beijing Municipality, Jiangsu Province and Shandong Province, and the imports of these five provinces and municipal-ities accounted for 65.4% of the total. The top five in 2019 were Guangdong Province, Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu Province and Shandong Province in order.Table 1. 2020 rankings for regional imports in China (31 provinces, municipali-

Data source: calculation based on the address data of shippers and consignees for 2020 exports and imports

from General Administration of Customs

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Zhejiang Province leaded in the increase in imports in 2020. From the perspective of import value, Beijing Municipality, Guangdong Province, Jiangsu Province, Tianjin Municipal-ity, Liaoning Province, H eilongjiang Province, Shanghai Municipality, Shandong Province, Jilin Province, Guizhou Province, Ningxia Hui Au-tonomous Region, Yunnan Province, Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province, a total of 14 provinces, municipalities and autonomous re-gions recorded decreases in 2020. For example, the import value of Beijing Municipality, Guangdong Province and Jiangsu Province were reduced by about USD 70.4 billion, USD 42.7 billion, and USD 13.4 billion. Mean-while, the other provinces, municipal-ities and autonomous regions of other provinces recorded increases in 2020, leaded by Zhejiang Province which had an increase of about USD 13.37 billion from a year ago.

From the perspective of the ra nk ings, compa red w it h t hose in 2019, in 2020 H ebei Province, H unan Province, Fujian Province, H enan Province, Shanghai Munic-ipality, Chongqing Municipality, H ubei Province, Jiangxi Province, Qinghai Province, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Anhui Province and Hainan Province, of which Hebei Province and H unan Province had the largest changes in rankings of two places, and the others rose one place. Meanwhile, those who had a dropped ranking included Heilongjiang Prov-ince, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jilin Province, Beijing Mu-nicipality, Shanxi Province, Tianjin Municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region, Gansu Province and Yun-nan Province, of which Heilongjiang Province and Guangxi Zhuang Au-tonomous Region went down by 4 and 3 places, and the others by 1.

From the perspective of the share they took in the total, com-pared with 2019, in 2020 Zhejiang Province, Sichuan Province, Fujian Province, Henan Province and Hebei Province had the largest increases of 0.85, 0.56, 0.53, 0.47 and 0.4 per-centage points respectively. For the same comparison, Beijing Munici-

Data source: calculation based on the address data of shippers and consignees for 2020 exports and imports from General Administration of Customs

Data source: calculation based on the data of exports and imports in 2020 by countries and regions from Gen-

eral Administration of Customs

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