Appendix 1.8: Total Value of Imports and Exports

Data before 1979 were obtained from the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and the data since 1980 have been obtained from the customs statistics.

	100 million Yuan				US$100 million
Year	Total Imports & Exports	Total Exports	Total Imports	Balance	Total Imports & Exports	Total Exports	Total Imports	Balance
1978	355.0	167.6	187.4	“19.8	206.4	97.5	108.9	“11.4
1979	454.6	211.7	242.9	“31.2	293.3	136.6	156.7	“20.1
1980	570.0	271.2	298.8	“27.6	381.4	181.2	200.2	“19.0
1981	735.3	367.6	367.7	“0.1	440.3	220.1	220.2	“0.1
1982	771.3	413.8	357.5	56.3	416.1	223.2	192.9	30.3
1983	860.1	438.3	421.8	16.5	436.2	222.3	213.9	8.4
1984	1,201.0	580.5	620.5	“40.0	535.5	261.4	274.1	“12.7
1985	2,066.7	808.9	1,257.8	“448.9	696.0	273.5	422.5	“149.0
1986	2,580.4	1,082.1	1,498.3	“416.2	738.5	309.4	429.1	“119.7
1987	3,084.2	1,470.0	1,614.2	“144.2	826.5	394.4	432.1	“37.7
1988	3,821.8	1,766.7	2,055.1	“288.4	1,027.9	475.2	552.7	“77.5
1989	4,155.9	1,956.0	2,199.9	“243.9	1,116.8	525.4	591.4	“66.0
1990	5,560.1	2,985.8	2,574.3	411.5	1,154.4	620.9	533.5	87.4
1991	7,225.8	3,827.1	3,398.7	428.4	1,356.3	718.4	637.9	80.5
1992	9,119.6	4,676.3	4,443.3	233.0	1,655.3	849.4	805.9	43.5
1993	11,271.0	5,284.8	5,986.2	“7,01.4	1,957.0	917.4	1,039.6	“122.2
1994	20,381.9	10,421.8	9,960.1	4,61.7	2,366.2	1,210.1	1,156.1	54.0
1995	23,499.9	12,451.8	11,048.1	1,403.7	2,808.6	1,487.8	1,320.8	167.0
1996	24,133.8	12,576.4	11,557.4	1,019.0	2,898.8	1,510.5	1,388.3	122.2
1997	26,967.2	15,160.7	11,806.5	3,354.2	3,251.6	1,827.9	1,423.7	404.2
1998	26,857.7	15,231.6	11,626.1	3,605.5	3,239.5	1,837.1	1,402.4	434.7
1999	29,896.3	16,159.8	13,736.5	2,423.3	3,606.3	1,949.3	1,657.0	292.3
2000	39,274.2	20,635.2	18,639.0	1,996.2	4,742.9	2,492.0	2,250.9	241.1
2001	42,193.3	22,029.1	20,164.2	5,097.7	2,661.6	2,436.1
Note: A negative balance indicates an unfavourable balance of foreign trade.