The foreign trade in Shenzhen surged 31.1 percent year on year to 2.32 trillion yuan (about 341.65 billion U.S. dollars) in the first five months of 2026, customs data showed, outperforming the rest Chinese mainland cities.
According to statistics from the Shenzhen Customs, the city's imports and exports accounted for 11.2 percent of China's total foreign trade during the first five months this year.
Exports from the tech hub in south China's Guangdong Province rose 15.9 percent from a year earlier to 1.22 trillion yuan (about 179.66 billion U.S. dollars), while imports jumped 53.4 percent to 1.1 trillion yuan (about 162 billion U.S. dollars) from January to May, the data showed.
Shenzhen sees foreign trade up 31.1 percent in Jan-May period
A promotion conference for the 19th Europe-China Business and Technology Cooperation Fair was held on the sidelines of the 2026 China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) in Beijing on Wednesday, with the first batch of cooperation partners signing up for participation in the event.
Three institutions and enterprises inked agreements with the China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC), becoming the first batch of partners of the fair. They will respectively hold special events featuring commercial legal services, vocational education, and cutting-edge technological innovation cooperation during the fair.
"To provide more professional services for enterprises, we need to jointly build the platform of the fair with professional partners," said Dong Ruilin from the exhibition department of the CCOIC.
The 19th Europe-China Business and Technology Cooperation Fair is scheduled to be held in Chengdu, capital city of southwest China's Sichuan Province, from October 21 to 23.
The fair will focus on key areas such as biomedicine, new energy, agricultural food, artificial intelligence, cutting-edge technologies, vocational education and commercial legal services, together with the organization of high-level dialogues, industrial matchmaking events and park visits.
"We have received preliminary confirmation of participation from some delegations in the Navarre region of Spain, Belgium, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The invitations are still underway. It is expected that the scale of participation from the European side this year will exceed that of last year," Dong said.
The 2026 CISCE runs in Beijing from June 22 to 26.
First batch of cooperation partners signed up for 19th Europe-China business fair
