China’s foreign trade shows strong resilience in 2025: vice minister
China’s foreign trade showed strong resilience in 2025, with sustained growth across goods, services, and digital sectors despite global economic headwinds, a senior Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) official said on Monday.
Speaking at a press conference in Beijing, Vice Minister of Commerce Yan Dong highlighted the resilience of China’s foreign trade as one of the key achievements of 2025, while presenting an overview of the nation's trade and commercial performance throughout the year.
"In 2025, we effectively responded to external impacts and challenges, coordinated development of the three pillars - goods trade, services trade, and digital trade, actively expanded diversified markets, and promoted innovative trade development. The overall trade scale reached a historic high, with total goods imports and exports for the year reaching 45.47 trillion yuan (6.52 trillion U.S. dollars), an increase of 3.8 percent year on year. In the first 11 months, services imports and exports totaled 7.2 trillion yuan (1.03 trillion U.S. dollars), up 7.1 percent over the same period of the previous year," Yan said.
"In the year, enterprises became more dynamic, with over 780,000 businesses recording import and export activity. Among them, private enterprises accounted for 57.3 percent of the total trade volume. Greater emphasis was placed on balanced development of imports and exports, including the successful hosting of major expos such as the China International Import Expo (CIIE), with the launch of such initiatives as the 'Big Market for All: Export to China' serial campaign, which was intended to facilitate both the import and marketing of high-quality global products on the Chinese market," said the vice minister.
