Title: China's Foreign Trade — Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America
Headings: 
China's Foreign Trade
Contents
Foreword
I. Historic Progress in China's Foreign Trade
II. Reform of and Improvements to China's Foreign Trade System
III. The Development of China's Foreign Trade Contributes to the World Economy
IV. Promoting Basically Balanced Growth of Foreign Trade
V. Constructing All-round Economic and Trade Partnerships with Mutually Beneficial Cooperation
VI. Realizing Sustainable Development of Foreign Trade
Conclusion
Foreword
I. Historic Progress in China's Foreign Trade
II. Reform of and Improvements to China's Foreign Trade System
III. The Development of China's Foreign Trade Contributes to the World Economy
IV. Promoting Basically Balanced Growth of Foreign Trade
V. Constructing All-round Economic and Trade Partnerships with Mutually Beneficial Cooperation
VI. Realizing Sustainable Development of Foreign Trade
Conclusion

Content: In addition to state-owned enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises and private enterprises also engage in foreign trade, and their total value of import and export has each exceeded that of the state-owned enterprises. From the 1980s to the early 21st century, China's processing trade flourished, accounting for half of the country's foreign trade volume. Throughout China's foreign trade development, foreign-invested enterprises and processing trade have played very significant roles. (Table 1 China's Export Commodity Structure 1980-2010)
-- China has formed an all-round and diversified import and export market. Since the adoption of the reform and opening up policy, China has been promoting foreign trade on all fronts, and established trade relations with the vast majority of the world's countries and regions. China's trade partners have increased from a small number of countries and regions in 1978 to 231 countries and regions now. The European Union (EU), the United States, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Japan, and the other BRIC countries have become China's major trade partners. In this new century China's trade with newly emerging markets and developing countries has maintained sustained and relatively rapid growth. In China's total trade in goods from 2005 to 2010 the proportion of trade with ASEAN increased from 9.2 percent to 9.8 percent, with other BRIC countries from 4.9 percent to 6.9 percent, with Latin America from 3.5 percent to 6.2 percent, and with Africa from 2.8 percent to 4.3 percent. (Figure 2 China's Top 10 Cargo Trade Partners in 2010)
-- China's international competitiveness in services trade has been enhanced.