In the first half of the year, Guangdong's foreign trade imports and exports increased by 4% year-on-year.

On July 18, 2025, the news conference on Guangdong's import and export situation in the first half of the year was held. Journalists learned at the meeting that, according to statistics from the Guangdong Sub-Administration of the General Administration of Customs, Guangdong's foreign trade import and export volume reached 4.55 trillion yuan in the first half of the year, an increase of 4% compared to the same period last year, with a growth rate 1.1 percentage points higher than the national average. Among them, exports reached 2.89 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.1%; imports reached 1.66 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.5%. The size of both imports and exports, exports, and imports all reached new highs for the same period in previous years.