Beijing's foreign trade grew by 32.8 percent year-on-year to reach 125.57 billion U.S. dollars in the past year, according to the latest report issued by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics.

Of the total, exports stood at 30.87 billion U.S. dollars, up 50.1 percent year-on-year, and imports stood at 94.7 billion U.S. dollars, up 28 percent, according to the report on Beijing's economic and social development in the 2001-2005 period.

In the past five years, Beijing's foreign trade amounted to 392.74 billion U.S. dollars, including 92.7 billion U.S. dollars of exports, statistics show.

A total of 2,136 foreign-funded projects were signed in Beijing in the past year, a yearly increase of 18.3 percent, statistics show.

Meanwhile, the city reported 6.52 billion U.S. dollars of contractual foreign capital, 4.2 percent higher than 2004, and it actually used 3.53 billion U.S. dollars of foreign capital, up 14.4 percent year-on-year.

In the 2001-2005 period, a total of 7,821 foreign-funded projects were signed in Beijing, with a contractual foreign capital of 21.96 billion U.S. dollars and an actual use of 12.32 billion U.S. dollars, statistics show.

Source: Xinhua