Shenzhen's Foreign Trade Hits Record 3.42 Trillion RMB in First Seven Months of 2026

In the first seven months of 2026, Shenzhen's cumulative imports and exports reached 3.42 trillion RMB, a record high for the corresponding period and an increase of 32.8% from the same period in 2025. Exports totaled 1.77 trillion RMB, up 13.9%, while imports reached 1.65 trillion RMB, up 61.9%. Private enterprises were the main engine of Shenzhen's foreign trade, with their imports and exports reaching 2.52 trillion RMB in the first seven months, up 40.4% and accounting for 73.7% of the total, contributing 28.2 percentage points to the city's trade growth.

On the product side, exports of traditional electronic information industry products and emerging industry-related products continued to grow. Shenzhen's exports of mechanical and electrical products reached 1.37 trillion RMB, up 17.5%. Among them, electronic components and computers and their parts totaled 285.41 billion RMB and 217.07 billion RMB, up 43.8% and 21.6%, respectively. In terms of trading partners, Shenzhen saw growth in trade with all of its top ten partners, with combined imports and exports reaching 2.68 trillion RMB in the first seven months, up 35.2% and accounting for 78.2% of the total. During the same period, trade with the EU, the US, Japan, South Korea, India, Switzerland, and Australia grew by 13.9%, 11.5%, 78.9%, 43.7%, 20.1%, 432.5%, and 50.9%, respectively.

Pan Chuxiong, deputy head of Shenzhen Customs, said that since 2026, the agency has carried out special actions to facilitate cross-border trade, applied the experience of Yiwu's development, and implemented a supervision model of "inspection first, then loading" for export LCL cargo, supporting flexible consolidation and loading within supervised areas. It has also promoted a smart inspection model for imported production parts, enabling "inspection upon arrival and production immediately after inspection," supporting the stable and expanded production of advantageous industries such as electronics manufacturing. In addition, a new online module for container return has been launched, breaking down data barriers among customs, enterprises, and terminals, and supporting one-stop processing for container return, with online declaration, intelligent customs review, and automatic gate release, ensuring efficient customs clearance to sustain Shenzhen's rapid foreign trade growth.