Tibet'S Trade Import And Export Volume Increased 16.2% In The First Quarter.

Reporters from the relevant departments of Tibet autonomous region learned that although Lhasa's "3. 14" beating and burning incidents had a certain impact on Tibet's foreign trade, but from the first quarter statistics, Tibet's foreign trade remained strong growth momentum.

In the first quarter of this year, Tibet's foreign trade import and export volume totaled 89 million 300 thousand US dollars, an increase of 16.2% over the same period last year.

Among them, imports of US $15 million 90 thousand, an increase of 2.1 times compared with the same period last year, and total exports amounted to US $74 million 210 thousand, down 9.8% from the same period last year.

In the past 30 years of reform and opening up, Tibet's infrastructure for opening to the outside world has been significantly improved with the great care and support of the central government.

In particular, with the opening of the Qinghai Tibet railway and the resumption of the border trade passage of the Tibet's China's Tieru mountain pass, the unique regional advantages of the country began to show that the previously closed and backward border areas are now becoming the "bridgehead" of trade between China and South Asian countries and regions.

In recent years, the central and regional governments will rely on the advantages of border areas to strengthen infrastructure construction and improve port functions so as to lay the foundation for the expansion of Tibet's opening up.

At present, the state invested more than 800 million yuan in the Sino Nigerian highway, from the days of the Gang Gang to the Zhangmu section, to carry out the piecewise renovation and reconstruction project, which is under intense construction. The whole project is scheduled to be completed in early 2010, when the Tibet section of the China highway will be completely black.

According to statistics, in the past 5 years, the total volume of Tibet's import and export trade totaled US $more than 1 billion 300 million, nearly doubled over the last five years, and foreign trade has become a new driving force for Tibet's economic development.

With the improvement of opening up conditions, Tibet has gradually expanded its utilization of foreign capital and foreign economic and technological cooperation.

In 2007, 19 foreign direct investment projects were approved for the whole year. The agreement utilized foreign direct investment of US $41 million 720 thousand and the actual utilization of foreign direct investment was US $24 million 180 thousand.