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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
NANJING, February 4 (Xinhua) — East China's Jiangsu Province's combined export and import volume reached 5.95 trillion yuan (approximately $855.7 billion) in 2025, up 6 percent year-on-year. Meanwhile, the share of countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in this economically powerful province's total foreign trade exceeded 50 percent for the first time.
These data were presented in the work report of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, announced at the 5th session of the 14th People's Congress of this province, which opened on Tuesday.
According to the report, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), Jiangsu Province consistently ranked second in China in terms of export and import volumes, while the province ranked first in the country in terms of the volume of actual foreign investment utilized for eight consecutive years.
During the specified period, the total number of freight train departures in Jiangsu Province on international rail freight routes between China and Europe and China and Central Asia exceeded 10,000, the report states. It also notes that, as part of efforts to increase foreign trade diversification, the Jiangsu-Central Asia Center was redesigned in 2025 as the China-Central Asia Flowing Trade Cooperation Platform.
Regarding the plan for deepening reform and expanding opening-up in the coming year, the report envisages the province's readiness to further exploit its advantages as a key hub of the Belt and Road Initiative, to establish high-level operations of the aforementioned platform, to accelerate the creation of industrial parks for cooperation beyond the borders, and to strengthen the network of China-Europe and China-Central Asia transport routes.
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