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Anhui’s imports and exports totaled US$107.1 billion in 2021, up 36.1 percent year-on-year, statistics from the Department of Commerce of Anhui Province showed. The eastern Chinese province ramped up efforts to explore the international market despite the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising production costs and international shipping prices, according to the department. Mechanical and electrical exports stood at US$39.14 billion last year, an increase of 43.9 percent year-on-year, while High-tech exports rose 47.3 percent to US$18.83 billion. The province has accelerated the cultivation of export-oriented industrial clusters with international competitiveness over the past few years. Anhui is home to 24 national clusters featuring the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade, ranking 6th in China. Six of them were approved in 2021. Information technology clusters’ exports reached US$10.18 billion, up 31.5 percent from a year earlier. Automobile clusters saw their export value surge 92 percent to US$3.36 billion. Household appliance clusters’ exports increased 28.5 percent to US$3.29 billion. In addition, photovoltaic clusters’ exports rocketed 62.8 percent to US$27.2 percent. The province will continue to cultivate national and provincial foreign trade transformation and upgrading clusters, and expand the export of IT products, automobiles, household appliances and photovoltaic products.
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