上半年广西外贸进出口增长13%

Group 1 - In the first half of the year, Guangxi's foreign trade import and export reached 387.15 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13%, which is 10.1 percentage points higher than the national foreign trade growth rate, ranking second in the western region [1] - General trade, bonded logistics, and processing trade grew faster than the overall trade, with general trade imports and exports at 169.18 billion yuan, up 17.2%, accounting for 43.7% of Guangxi's total foreign trade [1] - Processing trade saw a significant increase of 66.6%, with imports and exports totaling 45.77 billion yuan [1] Group 2 - Guangxi's exports of electromechanical and labor-intensive products reached 139.13 billion yuan and 38.07 billion yuan, respectively, with growth rates of 29.4% and 4.5%, together accounting for 75.5% of total exports [2] - The import of bulk commodities was 90.23 billion yuan, an increase of 2.4%, representing 59.2% of total imports, with copper concentrate imports driving a 19.8% increase in metal ore imports to 60.57 billion yuan [2] - Production-oriented enterprises showed strong performance with imports and exports totaling 129.94 billion yuan, a growth of 16.5%, exceeding the overall foreign trade growth rate by 3.5 percentage points [2]