China-Foreign Trade/Jan-Aug
China-Foreign Trade/Jan-Aug
Dateline : Aug 19/23/Sept 8, 2026/File
Location : China
Duration : 1'09
FILE: Tianjin Municipality, north China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Aerial shots of Tianjin Port
FILE: Beijing, China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
2. Various of building, sign of General Administration of Customs
Beijing, China - Sept 8, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Lyu Daliang, director, Department of Statistics and Analysis, General Administration of Customs (partially overlaid with shot 4):
"In August, China's goods trade maintained steady growth, with both exports and imports recording double-digit growth for a fourth straight month. This fully demonstrates the resilient support provided by China's complete industrial system for its foreign trade, as well as the strong impetus from the country's robust innovation capacity."
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FILE: Tianjin Municipality, north China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
4. Aerial shot of Tianjin Port
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FILE: Shanghai, China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Various of robotic arm working; high-tech production line, integrated circuit production line, factory machines
FILE: Jiangsu Province, east China - July 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
6. Building of workshop
7. Various of production line, worker operating machine
FILE: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, east China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. Aerial shots of cityscape
9. Aerial shot of China Artificial Intelligence Town (CAIT)
China's foreign trade maintained rapid growth in the first eight months of 2026, with both exports and imports posting solid gains and import growth continuing to outpace exports, official data showed on Tuesday.
The country's total goods imports and exports rose 17.6 percent year on year to 34.78 trillion yuan (about 5.13 trillion U.S. dollars) in the January-August period, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC).
The growth rate was 0.3 percentage point faster than that recorded in the first seven months of the year.
Exports increased 14.6 percent year on year to 20.17 trillion yuan, while imports expanded by 22 percent to 14.61 trillion yuan, the data revealed.
In August alone, China's goods trade totaled 4.65 trillion yuan, up 19.8 percent from a year earlier and remaining above the 4-trillion-yuan mark for a sixth consecutive month.
Exports grew 18.6 percent year on year in August, while imports rose by 21.7 percent.
"In August, China's goods trade maintained steady growth, with both exports and imports recording double-digit growth for a fourth straight month. This fully demonstrates the resilient support provided by China's complete industrial system for its foreign trade, as well as the strong impetus from the country's robust innovation capacity," said Lyu Daliang, director of the GAC's Department of Statistics and Analysis.