The Ministry of Commerce:

On the 8th of the ministry of commerce held a regular press conference, a commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang August 1 - in our country and investment cooperation of countries along the "area".

Shen Danyang introduction, 1 - August, our country and the investment cooperation of countries along the momentum, "One Belt And One Road" construction continuously made positive progress.

Foreign trade, 1 - August, I and the bilateral trade volume of countries along the $657 billion, fell 9.35% year on year, accounted for 25.70% of the total amount of import and export at the same period. Which exports to countries along the $400.9 billion, fell 1.25% year on year, less than 0.25% of global exports at the same period, and accounted for 27.4% of the total exports at the same period; Imports from countries along the $256.15 billion, fell 19.6% year on year, accounting for 23.4% of the total amount of imports.

Foreign direct investment (fdi), 1 - August, China's enterprises to "neighbourhood" all the way along the route of 48 countries for direct investment, the investment of $10.73 billion, up 48.2% from a year earlier, accounting for 13.9% of the non-financial foreign direct investment in China.

Foreign contracted projects, 1 - August, China's enterprises in 60 countries "neighbourhood" all the way along the new contracting foreign contracted projects, 2665, the newly signed contracts can be $54.44 billion, compared with the same period of China's foreign contracted projects of new signing contracts can be 43.5%, up 33% from a year earlier. Service outsourcing, August 1,, our country enterprise and the "area" all the way along the national service outsourcing contract amount is $9.3 billion, amount is $6.47 billion, year-on-year growth of 27.9% and 27.9% respectively.