Jiangsu Sells Nearly 20% More Toys Abroad

JIANGSU SELLS NEARLY 20 PCT MORE TOYS ABROAD

East China's Jiangsu Province exported 75.7 million U.S. dollars worth of toys in the first five months of this year, a growth of 19.7 percent on the same period of last year, according to the provincial customs.

In May alone, the export value was 18.85 million U.S. dollars, up 37.1 percent year on year, or 13.6 percent month on month.

Of the total exports, toys worth 23.34 million U.S. dollars were sold to the European Union, up 12 percent year on year, and 21.32 million dollars to the United States, up 10.9 percent. The two markets accounted for 59 percent of Jiangsu's toy exports.

A local customs spokesperson attributed the stable growth in toy exports to recovering external economies.

NON-STATE SECTOR'S FOREIGN TRADE UP NEARLY 40 PCT IN SHANGHAI

Shanghai's non-state sector recorded 16.85 billion U.S. dollars in foreign trade in the first five months of this year, a growth of 37.7 percent year-on-year, according to the municipal customs.

The total included 8.58 billion U.S. dollars in export volume, up 23.5 percent, and 8.28 billion dollars in import volume, up 56.3 percent.

URUMQI TO SPEND 10 MLN YUAN TO CONSERVE GRASSLAND

Urumqi, capital of northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, plans to invest 11.12 million yuan (1.6 million U.S.dollars) in imposing grazing ban on more than 33,000 hectares of grassland.

The no-grazing zone will be fenced, according to the regional agriculture and animal husbandry bureau.

Of the total investment, 8.12 million yuan will come from the central government, and the remaining 3 million yuan, from the regional government.

BORDER TRADE BETWEEN CHINA, RUSSIA UP 70 PCT IN SUIFENHE

Suifenhe, a border city in northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province, recorded 935 million U.S. dollars in trade with Russia between January and May, a growth of 70.1 percent year on year. The figure accounted for 45.4 percent of Heilongjiang's total foreign trade in the five-month period, according to local customs.

Small border trade in the city amounted to 720 million U.S. dollars in the Jan.-May period, up 63.7 percent.

In the five months, Suifenhe exported 260 million U.S. dollars worth of clothing and accessories, machines and electronics, shoes and farm produce. It imported 558 million dollars worth of logs, chemical fertilizers, lumbers and ironsand.