Over the past decade, China's total trade in goods has continued to increase, ranking first in the world for five consecutive years since 2017, and the total trading value in goods and services also jumped to first place in the world in 2020. Zheng Yuqiang, a fruit dealer in Beijing, said that they'd rarely sold imported jackfruit in previous years, but now they can sell more than a dozen tons a day. In Beijing's wholesale market, the number of imported fruit varieties is increasing yearly. Xiao Yang, who just started last year, opened a store specializing in selling Musang King durians from Malaysia. He told reporters that this expensive imported fruit has been selling better and better since entering the Chinese market in 2019. In the past ten years, Philippine avocado, Cambodian banana, Lao citrus, South African pear, and more and more imported fruits came into the consumption of Chinese people. In 2021, China imported more than 7 million tons of fruit, compared to less than 3.45 million tons in 2012, doubling its imports in a decade. Not only high-quality consumer goods such as fruits, but also the import scale of advanced technology and equipment, essential parts and components, and other products has continued to expand in the past ten years, better meeting the needs of domestic production and people's lives, and allowing the world to share more of the dividends brought by China's economic growth. In 2021, China's total import value reached 17.37 trillion yuan, an increase of 51.2% compared with 2012.
In the last decade, China voluntarily reduced tariffs on goods, with the overall tariff level falling from 9.8% in 2012 to 7.4% in 2021. New trade formats and new momentum have been continuously stimulated, and the scale of cross-border e-commerce import and export has increased nearly 10 times in the past 5 years. From 24.4 trillion yuan in 2012 to 39.1 trillion yuan in 2021, China's total trade value in goods has continued to increase in the past ten years, and its international market share has also increased from 10.4% in 2012 to 13.5% last year, consolidating its position as the world's largest country in trading goods. Nowadays, there are more and more high-level open platforms such as CIIE, CIFTIS, and CICG. China has set up 21 free trade zones and 1 free trade port, with free trade partners on five continents. In the past ten years, China's average contribution to world economic growth has reached 38.6%, ranking first in the world.