According to news on April 27, 2026, in the first quarter of this year, Chongqing Foreign Trade Import and Export delivered an eye-catching “good start” report card.
Data show that Chongqing’s total foreign trade import and export value reached 221.55 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 34.3%. The growth rate increased by 30.2 percentage points compared with the same period last year and was 19.3 percentage points higher than the national average.
In terms of optimizing and upgrading the industrial chain and supply chain, Chongqing continues to strengthen its role as a hub.
Actively guiding enterprises to build domestic and overseas integrated manufacturing systems has steadily expanded the export scale of laptop components and accelerated the transformation of processing trade to high-end.
Driven by leading companies such as SK Hynix, the city’s electronic equipment manufacturing exports grew significantly, reaching 36.8%.
Among them, the export of integrated circuits surged by 170.1%, and the export of laptops also increased by 13.6%.
The export performance of the automobile industry is particularly outstanding, with Changan, Thalys, Great Wall and other automobile companies deeply exploring key markets.
Lianglu Guoyuan Port Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Changan Automobile have jointly built an integrated supply chain base for parts and components, while Xiyong and Railway Port Comprehensive Bonded Zone provide “one-stop” comprehensive services, helping the city’s automobile exports grow by 70.5%.
Market development is also continuing to make efforts to make the domestic and international dual circulation smoother.
Chongqing has upgraded and implemented the “Hundred Groups, Thousand Enterprises” international market development plan. In 2026, it will focus on supporting overseas exhibitions covering 100 core industry exhibitions, and expand the number of “Chongqing Trade Global” key exhibitions to 7.
This series of measures drove imports and exports to emerging markets such as ASEAN, Latin America, and Africa to increase by 30.2%, 37.4%, and 40.2% respectively.
At the same time, it actively strives for booth support at the Canton Fair and has added more than 70 booths in exhibition areas with prominent supply and demand gaps such as motorcycles and power and electrical equipment.
We deepened the reform of the integration of domestic and foreign trade, completed the annual “vanguard” enterprise identification, planned the “China Tour of Excellent Foreign Trade Products” activities, introduced a domestic trade insurance subsidy pilot policy, and continued to improve the efficiency of coordinated development of domestic and foreign trade.
New formats and models of foreign trade are booming, and new momentum is accelerating.
Liangjiang New Area has successfully been approved as the second batch of national processing trade industrial parks. The pilot project for optimizing the inspection and supervision of imported recycled aluminum containers has been implemented for the first time. The “cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt + overseas warehouse” model has been further promoted.
The National Youth Foreign Trade Entrepreneurship Competition was held in Chongqing, and platforms such as Alibaba International Station and Amazon held more than 20 cross-border e-commerce special events to inject new vitality into the innovative development of foreign trade.
The foreign trade service system is also constantly improving, giving enterprises more confidence for development.
Chongqing’s comprehensive foreign trade service platform has more than 2,000 companies settled in it, and Chongqing Trade Network has launched the construction of physical overseas service stations in Peru and Australia.
In the first quarter, there were 4,357 import and export companies in the city, a year-on-year increase of 23.1%, a record high for the same period in history.
At the same time, multiple departments are coordinated to help enterprises resolve international logistics risks, optimize cross-border logistics organizations, fully guarantee the space for China-Europe trains and China-Laos-Thailand trains, ensure efficient and smooth cross-border transportation, and provide a solid guarantee for the stable growth of foreign trade.
