Beijing's Foreign Trade

Beijing Municipality’s foreign trade has developed rapidly since 1979. Beijing’s exports in 1978 was only US$285 million, but they reached US$1.69 billion in 1993, an average increase of 12.64 percent every year. Its exports reached US$1.293 billion between January and August this year, an increase of 24.7 percent over the same period last year. While exports increase steadily, the structure of export goods increases steadily, and the transfer from rough machining to finished machining is being completed. The export of electromechanical products, hightechnology products and high added value communities increases every year. Taking