
The 2026 APEC Week News Center held a special briefing in Shenzhen, Guangdong
Zhang Feimeng, director of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, announced at the 2026 APEC Week News Center briefing that Shenzhen’s cumulative import and export in the first 10 months of this year was 5.25 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 40.9%, making it the first city in mainland China with foreign trade import and export exceeding 5 trillion yuan.
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Shenzhen continues to promote high-level opening up and continuous innovation, and the scale of foreign trade import and export continues to expand.
China News Service, Shenzhen, November 14 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The 2026 APEC Leaders’ Meeting Week News Center held a special briefing for Chinese and foreign media in Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City on the 14th. Zhang Feimeng, director of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that according to the latest data, Shenzhen's foreign trade has reached a new high and has become the first city in mainland China with foreign trade imports and exports exceeding 5 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below).
According to Shenzhen Customs statistics, in the first 10 months of this year, Shenzhen's cumulative import and export reached 5.25 trillion yuan, which was the first time in history that it exceeded the 5 trillion yuan mark, a year-on-year increase of 40.9%. Among them, exports were 2.71 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.7%; imports were 2.54 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 73.7%.
High-level openness and continuous innovation are increasingly becoming the core driving force for Shenzhen's foreign trade growth. Zhang Feimeng said that Shenzhen continues to open its doors and expand imports. Since the beginning of this year, it has held 10 Shenzhen series of "Shared Big Market·Export to China" events, and simultaneously launched the "Ten Import" special policies to open up channels for global trading partners and reduce trade costs.
As a "super buyer", Shenzhen's import scale reached 2.24 trillion yuan in the first three quarters of this year, a year-on-year increase of 70.1%. Durians from Malaysia and Vietnam enter the Chinese market in large quantities through the Shenzhen port.
As the "No. 1 Industrial City in China", Shenzhen has seen the emergence of new technologies and products. In the first three quarters of this year, the total export of Shenzhen's advantageous products such as 3D printers, digital cameras, and smartphones increased by 15.5% year-on-year. Shenzhen not only provides global consumers with rich and diverse products, but also continues to inject new vitality and open up new space for global economic and trade cooperation.
On the same day, Wang Xi, member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and deputy leader and office director of the Guangdong Provincial Preparatory Leading Group for the APEC meeting, said at the meeting that Guangdong continues to deepen multi-field cooperation with more than 210 countries and regions around the world. Guangdong’s foreign trade is expected to reach 11 trillion yuan this year.
It is reported that in the first three quarters of this year, Guangdong’s imports and exports to other APEC economies were 5.74 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.4%.

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