Recently, reporters learned from the press conference on the economic operation of Gansu Province in the first quarter of 2023 that in the first quarter of this year, the scale of foreign trade import and export of Gansu Province expanded, and the import and export of countries along the "the Belt and Road" grew well. In March, the total import and export value of that month was 7.7 billion yuan, a new monthly high since January 2015. In the first quarter, the total import and export value of Gansu Province was 17.57 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%. Among them, the total export value was 4.53 billion yuan, an increase of 45.1%, ranking 8th in the country in terms of growth rate; The total import value was 13.04 billion yuan, a decrease of 4.2%. Gansu's foreign trade imports and exports have maintained a growth trend towards major trading partners. In the first quarter, ASEAN became Gansu's largest trading partner, with Gansu's import and export value to ASEAN reaching 3.76 billion yuan. Gansu's import and export to countries along the "the Belt and Road" was 9.63 billion yuan, up 25.4%, accounting for 54.8% of Gansu's total foreign trade value, up 8.9 percentage points over the same period last year. Gansu's imports and exports to other member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) reached 5.4 billion yuan, an increase of 97.4%. (New News Agency)