Xi'an's total import and export value reached 113.72 billion yuan ($16.51 billion) in the first two months of 2026.

This marks a year-on-year increase of 69.3 percent, accounting for 93.9 percent of Shaanxi province's total, and is 51 percentage points higher than the national growth rate. Specifically, exports amounted to 87.84 billion yuan, up 88.7 percent, while imports stood at 25.88 billion yuan, up 25.7 percent.

Major export products achieved significant growth. Exports of mechanical and electrical products hit 82.04 billion yuan, up 97.5 percent, accounting for 93.4 percent of total exports. Among them, exports of integrated circuits, automatic data processing equipment and parts, and electrical equipment stood at 46.28 billion yuan, 15.69 billion yuan, and 2.12 billion yuan, respectively, up 140.7 percent, 205.1 percent, and 59 percent.

Imports of mechanical and electrical products reached 20.35 billion yuan, an increase of 41 percent, driving the city's import growth rate up by 28.7 percentage points and accounting for 78.6 percent of the city's total.

Imports of agricultural products stood at 760 million yuan, up 19.2 percent, accounting for 2.9 percent of the total import value. Imports of metal ore and ore concentrate reached 1.34 billion yuan, up 4.3 percent.

Imports and exports by foreign-invested enterprises totaled 83 billion yuan, up 95.5 percent, accounting for 73 percent of the city's total. Imports and exports by private enterprises rounded out at 27.41 billion yuan, an increase of 30.5 percent, representing 24.1 percent of the total.

Foreign trade with South Korea, ASEAN, the EU, and Malaysia was 23.69 billion yuan, 21.17 billion yuan, 10.6 billion yuan, and 13.07 billion yuan, respectively, climbing 140.6 percent, 71.9 percent, 39.6 percent, and 103.7 percent year-on-year.

In addition, trade with countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) totaled 61.75 billion yuan, an increase of 77.4 percent, accounting for 54.3 percent of the city's total foreign trade value. Trade with other RCEP member countries reached 49.38 billion yuan, up 85.7 percent, accounting for 43.4 percent of the total imports and exports.

Imports and exports of general trade stood at 24.84 billion yuan, an increase of 2.1 percent, accounting for 21.8 percent of the city's total foreign trade. Bonded logistics trade reached 10.3 billion yuan, up 66.6 percent. Processing trade totaled 77.2 billion yuan, surging by 118.9 percent and accounting for 67.9 percent of the total, making it the core driver of the city's rapid foreign trade growth.