Private enterprises continue to play a key role in stabilizing foreign trade.

In the first 7 months of this year, China's private enterprises' imports and exports totaled 14.68 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.4%, accounting for 57.1% of the total import and export value of the country, up 2.1 percentage points from the same period last year. Among them, imports and exports to countries participating in the "Belt and Road" initiative reached 7.97 trillion yuan, an increase of 10%, accounting for 54.3% of the total import and export value of private enterprises.