Guangdong's trade with APEC economies reaches 6.16 tln yuan in 2025

Trade between south China's Guangdong Province and other APEC economies totaled 6.16 trillion yuan (about 886.11 billion U.S. dollars) in 2025, up 3.3 percent year on year, official data shows.

Exports amounted to 3.82 trillion yuan, up 1.1 percent, while imports reached 2.34 trillion yuan, rising by 8.7 percent, according to the data released by the Guangdong branch of the General Administration of Customs of China on Friday.

China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the United States and China's Taiwan region were Guangdong's top three trading partners within APEC, with trade volumes of 1.28 trillion yuan, 945.32 billion yuan, and 833.08 billion yuan, respectively, accounting for nearly half of the province's total trade volume with these economies.

Exports of machinery and electronic products rose 6 percent to 2.62 trillion yuan, accounting for 68.7 percent of the total export.

Meanwhile, imports of machinery and electronic products expanded significantly, with the value rosing 13.7 percent to 1.72 trillion yuan, representing 73.2 percent of Guangdong's imports from other APEC economies.

China's short track speed skating team, along with the snowboard big air and slopestyle team, arrived in Milan of Italy early Saturday morning, officially kicking off their Winter Olympics journey as the first batch of Team China athletes arriving.

The Chinese short track speed skating team is sending 10 athletes to this edition of the Winter Olympics. The team planned to hold its first on-ice training session later in the afternoon.

"I think the time difference is okay. I had some sleep aboard the plane and then arrived here," said team member Fan Kexin.

"I have been here before, but that was many years ago, four or five years ago. This is my second time. Every venue has its own style, and each course is different, so I am really looking forward to it," said Yang Wenlong, a member of the snowboard big air and slopestyle team.