Statistics on Mainland-HK Trade and Economic Cooperation in 12 Months of 2012

I. Mainland-HK Trade

Mainland-HK trade in January-December 2012 amounted to US$ 341.49 billion (which accounted for 8.8% of our national total, 1 percentage point higher than that of last year), up by 20.5% year on year, of which, US$ 323.53 billion was export to HK and US$ 17.96 billion was import from HK, up by 20.7% and 15.9% respectively.

In December, Mainland-HK trade was US$ 39.79 billion, up by 13.0% month on month. Export to HK was US$ 37.66 billion, up by 13.0% compared with that of the previous month; and import from HK was US$ 2.13 billion, down by 2.0% compared with that of the previous month.

II. Investment from HK

In January-December, 2012, 12,604 HK-invested projects were approved by the Mainland, down by 9.3% year on year. The actual use of HK capital decreased 7% year on year to US$ 65.56 billion (which accounted for 58.7% of our total foreign investment). During December, there were 1,375 HK-invested projects approved by the Mainland, up by 0.6% from a month earlier. The actual use of HK capital was US$ 8.03 billion, up by 72.0% from a month earlier.

By the end of December, the accumulated number of HK-invested projects approved by the Mainland was 348,884 with the actual use of US$ 592.27 billion. In terms of actually utilized capital, HK capital accounts for 46.3% of Mainland accumulated foreign capital.

III. Mainland-HK Economic Cooperation

During January to December, the contracts for contracted projects reached 120, with value of US$ 5.4 billion. The turnover amounted to US$ 2.79 billion. By the end of December, the total number of labor dispatched to HK was 35,098, and the accumulated turnover reached US$ 40.32 billion.

(Source: Ministry of Commerce Website)