Core Insights - Henan Province's foreign trade import and export reached 483.38 billion yuan in the first seven months, growing by 22.3% year-on-year, significantly outpacing the national growth rate of 3.5% by 18.8 percentage points, marking a historical high for the same period [1] - Exports totaled 324.31 billion yuan, an increase of 32.8%, while imports were 159.07 billion yuan, growing by 5.4% [1] Group 1: Trade Dynamics - The vitality of foreign trade entities has increased, with private enterprises becoming the main engine for trade growth, and foreign-invested enterprises showing the fastest growth rate [1] - The number of foreign trade enterprises in Henan reached 12,200, an increase of 1,200 year-on-year, with 636 enterprises having an import and export value exceeding 50 million yuan, accounting for 88.1% of the province's total foreign trade [1] - Private enterprises' import and export value was 356.06 billion yuan, up 17.7%, representing 73.7% of the total foreign trade value; foreign-invested enterprises had an import and export value of 96.36 billion yuan, growing by 64.4% [1] Group 2: Export Markets - Henan's export markets have diversified, with significant growth in trade with the EU, South Korea, and Japan [2] - Exports to the EU reached 65.76 billion yuan, growing by 28.7%; exports to ASEAN were 64.8 billion yuan, up 8.4%; exports to South Korea were 31.86 billion yuan, increasing by 16.6%; and exports to Japan surged by 133.4% to 31.65 billion yuan [2] - Trade with Belt and Road countries amounted to 236.44 billion yuan, growing by 16.1%, while trade with RCEP member countries reached 144.54 billion yuan, increasing by 26% [2] Group 3: Export Products - The "new" and "green" content of Henan's foreign trade has further improved, with high-tech product exports reaching 114.4 billion yuan, growing by 33.4%, contributing 35.8% to the overall export growth [2] - Exports of electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products, representing green low-carbon products, totaled 16.09 billion yuan, a remarkable increase of 158.1% [2] - Exports of agricultural products and silver also maintained rapid growth, reaching 9.84 billion yuan and 7.78 billion yuan, with growth rates of 28.9% and 20.7%, respectively [2] Group 4: Import Products - Certain key raw materials and agricultural products saw rapid growth in imports, with imports of electromechanical products totaling 87.71 billion yuan, growing by 10.2% [3] - Integrated circuits accounted for 34.24 billion yuan in imports, increasing by 8.8%, while automatic data processing equipment and parts surged by 642.5% to 4.69 billion yuan [3] - Agricultural product imports reached 9.53 billion yuan, growing by 28.4%, and imports of unrefined copper and copper materials totaled 5.76 billion yuan, increasing by 81% [3]