Heilongjiang’s foreign trade market starts to warm up from March

2009-5-20 Harbin

Heilongjiang province, China’s foreign trade totaled US$1.4 billion and US$5.1 billion in April and the first four months of 2009, down 5.6 percent and 11.3 percent respectively from the same period of last year, according to data from Department of Commerce of the province. Nevertheless, the decline in monthly foreign trade has shown a downward trend since March. Noticeably, exports of mechanical and electrical products increased 30 percent to US$1 billion during the period while hi-tech product exports rose 4.6 percent to US$76 million.