In the first five months of this year, Chinas import and export trade with the five Central Asian countries grew rapidly.

The Central Asia region, as the birthplace of the co-construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative and a demonstration area for high-quality construction of the "Belt and Road", has seen continuous deepening of economic and trade exchanges with China, and bilateral trade volume steadily expanding. According to customs statistics, China's imports and exports to the five Central Asian countries have increased from 312.04 billion yuan in 2013 to 674.15 billion yuan in 2024, an increase of 116%, with an average annual growth rate of 7.3%, 2.3 percentage points higher than the overall import and export growth rate in China during the same period. In the first 5 months of this year, China's imports and exports to the five Central Asian countries totaled 286.42 billion yuan, an increase of 10.4% year-on-year, reaching a historical high for the same period. Among them, exports were 188.18 billion yuan, an increase of 5.6%; imports were 98.24 billion yuan, an increase of 21%.