so far this year(math.) genusMost of the province's import and export basically remained stable, and some areas grew significantly. For example, Wuxi region with IT products, solar cells and other exports increased significantly, stabilized the import and export position. 1-6 months, the city's import and export of 208.11 billion yuan, a year-on-year decline of only a slight 0.6%. As an important home textile base of the province, the Nantong region, the export of traditional labor-intensive industries have shown a strong resilience, coupled with solar batteries, integrated circuits, Diodes and other electromechanical products exports increased significantly, the first half of the city's imports and exports increased by 4.4%, totaling 98.77 billion yuan. Driven by the traditional paper industry, labor-intensive products and integrated circuit export surge, Zhenjiang City, imports and exports of 31.81 billion yuan, an increase of 8.1%. Taizhou City, also due to the ship and the traditional labor-intensive product exports increased significantly, imports and exports year-on-year only under theDrop 0.11 TP3T.
Look at the changes through the figures. The overall scale of foreign trade in our province basically remained stable at the same time, the effectiveness of structural reform of the supply side of foreign trade has also appeared. From the trade mode, general trade growth against the trend, the proportion increased. In the first half of the year, the province's general trade mode of import and export 73.884 billion yuan, an increase of 4%, the proportion increased to 47.4%, up 3.3 percentage points. Not long ago, Wuxi Taihu Yangshan peach science and technology company exported two batches of peach to Hong Kong, a total of 17 boxes. Although the export amount is not very large, it is a new breakthrough in general trade exports of peach. Due to the short freshness of peach, intolerance of storage and transportation, long-term can not be exported to Hong Kong, China, China, Macao, Singapore and other places. In the inspection and quarantine, local agriculture and forestry departments to help, in advance to do a good job of orchard registration, epidemic monitoring, pesticide residue testing, etc., the opening of a 24-hour "green channel" to do the same day to declare the same day inspection and release, the use of cross-border e-commerce platforms, direct flights chartered in a timely manner out of the shipment, so that within 24 hours of the peach can reach the hands of consumers in Hong Kong. In contrast, the processing trade import and export continued to slump, six months the province's processing trade import and export value fell to 650.1 billion yuan, a decline of 5.1%, accounting for a reduction of 0.9 percentage points.
Foreign demand market squeeze on the processing link, but also forced a number of enterprises in our province plus trade fast-paced transformation, accelerate the cultivation of new growth points in exports. Processing trade is relatively concentrated in Kunshan City, through the expansion of global maintenance / remanufacturing industry, the first half of the maintenance / remanufacturing import batches 1078 batches, the value of 426 million U.S. dollars, to promote the "manufacturing" to "service" transformation. Shihshuo Electronics has established a million-size production base for repairing and remanufacturing Apple cell phones, with an annual production capacity of more than 1 billion U.S. dollars. After obtaining the global repair qualification for non-self-produced products this year, the order volume of global repair business in the first half of the year amounted to nearly 200 million US dollars.
Markets, trade with the United States, Europe, South Korea and other major trading partners to remain stable, import and export in the first half of the year were 251.43 billion yuan, 254.62 billion yuan, 171.10 billion yuan, an increase of -1.6%, 1.1% and -0.9%. other trading partners in the vicinity of the decline of a certain magnitude, to Japan, ASEAN, Hong Kong, China, China Taiwan import and export were 153.50 billion yuan, 174.25 billion yuan, 85.22 billion yuan, 118.56 billion yuan, down 4.8%, 2.9%, 4.6% and 10.7%. With the traditional market of the United States and Japan and other import and export decline in contrast to our province on the "One Belt, One Road" along some countries. The import and export of the province to some countries along the "Belt and Road" has increased significantly, of which the import and export to 5 countries in Central Asia, 8 countries in South Asia and 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe have increased by 5.4%, 10.8% and 3.1% respectively.
From the product point of view, IT, photovoltaic, labor-intensive industries such as export is relatively stable. In the weak demand situation in the international market, enterprise orders gradually polarized and concentrated to the advantageous enterprises. The province's manufacturing base is strong, the main industries and leading enterprises more, part of the IT industry, photovoltaic industry and some labor-intensive industries, the export advantage is more obvious. The province's portable computers and tablet computers were exported 54.44 billion yuan and 16.07 billion yuan, the former year-on-year decline of 0.1%, the latter increased by 9.6%. the same period, the export of solar cells 19.29 billion yuan, a slight decline of 0.4%; exports of textile and apparel, such as the traditional labor-intensive products of 165.35 billion yuan, an increase of 4.5%. the industry Analysis, this is not only for the province's import and export of the overall stabilization of the foundation, but also shows that the province's related industries have a strong foundation of strength, transformation and upgrading of the situation is good.
Professionals analyze, the recent global trade slightly warming signs, the second quarter of the province's trade in goods import and export to form a certain support, but the future of the international and domestic economic situation is still severe and complex. But the future of the international and domestic economic situation is still serious and complex, affecting the development of foreign trade uncertainties are still more. May, June export pilot index was 33.1 and 32.7, for two consecutive months of decline, indicating that the third quarter of China's exports are again facing greater downward pressure.
Experts said that in addition to the macro-environment, external factors, the pace of industrial restructuring in the province also needs to be accelerated. Processing trade, for example, accounted for the province's foreign trade plate of 41.7%. processing trade is responsive to changes in external demand, domestic production costs, etc., the test of production capacity transfer will still be very severe. Some strategic emerging industries, although there is a breakthrough, but from the formation of large-scale production capacity, become a living force in foreign trade exports is still a distance. To achieve positive growth in foreign trade throughout the year, we need to pool our efforts, focus on promoting structural reform of the supply side of foreign trade, consolidate the traditional development advantages, cultivate new development momentum, and do everything possible to realize the stabilization of imports and exports and the transformation and upgrading.