Focusing on the building materials and home furnishing industry, exports of furniture and its parts, lamps/lighting fixtures and their parts maintained a strong growth momentum, and exports of ceramic products declined slightly. Data show that from January to May, the export value of furniture and its parts was 212.55 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.5%; The export value of lamps/lighting fixtures and their parts was 120.58 billion yuan, up 7.9% year on year; The export value of ceramic products was 68.33 billion yuan, down 4.5% year-on-year.
From a single month in May, the export of furniture and its parts and ceramic products cooled down slightly. Among them, in May, the export value of furniture and its parts was 44.33 billion yuan, slightly down 0.2% from the previous month; Exports of ceramic products were 12.84 billion yuan, down 1.3% from the previous quarter. In May, the export of lamps/lighting fixtures and their parts performed well, with exports of 26.6 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4% from the previous month.
Lu Daliang, director of the Statistical analysis Department of the General Administration of Customs, said that since the beginning of this year, China's economic operation has continued to pick up and improve, and foreign trade has continued to consolidate its momentum. Driven by the good export momentum of high-end, intelligent and green products and the steady expansion of import scale, the monthly import and export growth rate further accelerated
