Guangdong’s foreign trade volume totaled 8.3 trillion yuan (about 1.2 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2022, the second consecutive year the province’s foreign trade volume surpassed 8 trillion yuan, Wang said as he delivered the government work report at the annual session of the Guangdong Provincial People’s Congress.
In order to further promote high-level opening-up, Guangdong will cultivate and bring in a number of headquarters of trade enterprises, leading cross-border e-commerce enterprises, and leading modern commercial enterprises.
The province also plans to build a batch of export industrial clusters, and support the cities of Shantou and Zhanjiang to build large-scale export processing industrial zones. It will also build six import bases for bulk commodities, electronic components, aircraft, automobiles, agricultural and sideline products, and medium and high-end consumer goods.