Beijing's Imports Take Off

Beijing’s foreign economic and tradedepartment has devoted muchattention to the import business, whilecontinuously increasing its export value.In 1994 the value of its self-managedimports(excluding the imports it handledfor the state and provincial foreign tradecompanies as agent)stood at US＄1.91billion, up 38. 2％ over the previous year,remarkably higher than the growth rate ofexports. Of the imports, the means ofproduction and the means of livelihoodwere valued at US＄1.854 billion andUS＄57. 31 million, accounting for 97％and 3％ of the total respectively. Themanufactured goods and the primarygoods were worth US＄1. 634 billion and