List of the largest trading partners of China

This is a list of the largest trading partners of the People's Republic of China.

Background

China has become the world's second largest economy by GDP (Nominal) and largest by GDP (PPP), and is still developing at a high speed. 'The expansion of the Chinese economy grew 6.8% the last quarter of 2017, equaling the growth of the prior 3 months exceeding expectations of 6.7%. The overall economy expanded 6.9% last year, just beating the 6.7% of 2016 which ended a drought of a declining trend that started in 2011.'^[1]

'China is the emerging global power and the only one able to challenge the US world hegemony in the first half of the twenty-first century. Among the strategies of hegemonic construction and expansion of its economy, Beijing has developed a network of economic relations with both the industrial economies and those constituting the semi-periphery and periphery of the world system.'^[2] As Chinese economy growing so fast, China also have many trading partners in the world. All of them are important partners of China in trading and they all contributed to the development of Chinese economy, but the largest partners of China are always changing because of the alteration of policy or other reasons. This article will show you the largest partners of China in recent years.

The expansion of the Chinese economy grew 6.8% the last quarter of 2017, equaling the growth of the prior 3 months exceeding expectations of 6.7%. The overall economy expanded 6.9% last year, just beating the 6.7% of 2016 which ended a drought of a declining trend that started in 2011.^[1]

List of largest trading partners of China

The major Chinese trading partners for 2015 were as follows:

• Figures are for mainland China, excluding the special administrative regions.

2015 Imports and Exports by Country (Billions of USD)^[3]

No.	Country	Total trade	Exports	Imports	Trade balance
	Total	3,953.0	2,273.5	1,679.6	593.9
1	United States	557.0	409.2	147.8	261.4
2	Hong Kong	343.2	330.5	12.7	317.7
3	Japan	278.5	135.6	142.9	-7.3
4	Korea Republic	275.8	101.3	174.5	-73.2
5	Taiwan	188.1	44.9	143.2	-98.3
6	Germany	156.8	69.2	87.6	-18.5
7	Australia	113.8	40.3	73.5	-33.2
8	Malaysia	97.3	44.0	53.3	-9.3
9	Vietnam	95.8	66.0	29.8	36.2
10	Singapore	79.5	51.9	27.6	24.4
11	United Kingdom	78.5	59.6	18.9	40.6
12	Thailand	75.5	38.3	37.2	1.1
13	India	71.6	58.2	13.4	44.9
14	Brazil	71.5	27.4	44.1	-16.7
15	Netherlands	68.2	59.5	8.8	50.7
16	Russia	68.0	34.8	33.3	1.5
17	Canada	55.6	29.4	26.2	3.2
18	Indonesia	54.2	34.3	19.9	14.5
19	Saudi Arabia	51.6	21.6	30.0	-8.4
20	France	51.4	26.7	24.6	2.1
21	United Arab Emirates	48.5	37.0	11.5	25.5
22	South Africa	46.0	15.9	30.2	-14.3
23	Philippines	45.6	26.7	19.0	7.7
24	Italy	44.7	27.8	16.8	11.0
25	Switzerland	44.3	3.2	41.1	-37.9
26	Mexico	43.8	33.8	10.0	23.8
27	Iran	33.8	17.8	16.1	1.7
28	Chile	31.7	13.3	18.4	-5.1
29	Spain	27.4	21.9	5.6	16.3
30	Belgium	23.2	16.2	7.0	9.2
31	Turkey	21.6	18.6	2.9	15.7
32	Iraq	20.6	7.9	12.7	-4.8
33	Angola	19.7	3.7	16.0	-12.3
34	Pakistan	18.9	16.4	2.5	14.0
35	Oman	17.2	2.1	15.0	-12.9
36	Poland	17.1	14.3	2.7	11.6
37	Myanmar	15.1	9.7	5.4	4.2
38	Nigeria	14.9	13.7	1.2	12.5
39	Bangladesh	14.7	13.9	0.8	13.1
40	Argentina	14.5	8.8	5.7	3.1
41	Peru	14.3	6.4	7.9	-1.6
42	Kazakhstan	14.3	8.4	5.8	2.6
43	Sweden	13.5	7.1	6.4	0.7
44	Egypt	12.9	12.0	0.9	11.0
45	Venezuela	12.1	5.3	6.8	-1.5
46	New Zealand	11.5	4.9	6.6	-1.7
47	Israel	11.4	8.6	2.8	5.8
48	Kuwait	11.3	3.8	7.5	-3.7
49	Colombia	11.1	7.6	3.5	4.0
50	Czech	11.0	8.2	2.8	5.4

China is the dominant trading partner of many countries. The following tables are based on 2016 data as shown on the CIA World Factbook.

Exports[4] Region Percentage  North Korea 85.6%  Mongolia 84.1%  Turkmenistan 70.0%  Solomon Islands 62.4%  Eritrea 57.7%  Hong Kong 54.2%  Angola 53.7%  Oman 47.8%  Myanmar 40.6%  Congo 39.8%  Mauritania 36.9%  Democratic Republic of the Congo 35.3%  Australia 30.5%  New Caledonia 30.4%  Iran 30.1%  Chile 28.6%  South Korea 25.1%  Guinea 24.6%  Peru 23.5%  Iraq 21.9%  New Zealand 19.4%  Brazil 19.0%  Saudi Arabia 13.6%  Singapore 12.8%  Indonesia 11.6%  South Africa 9.2%

Imports[5] Region Percentage  North Korea 90.3%  Hong Kong 47.8%  Kyrgyzstan 37.8%  Macau 36.7%  Cambodia 35.3%  Myanmar 33.9%  Mongolia 33.2%  Cuba 29.2%  Pakistan 29.1%  Ethiopia 28.8%  Togo 28.7%  Paraguay 27.3%  Iraq 26.9%  Japan 25.8%  Solomon Islands 25.3%  Vietnam 25.1%  Bangladesh 24.3%  Chile 24.3%  Kenya 24.1%  Australia 23.4%  Indonesia 22.9%  Peru 22.8%  Uzbekistan 22.2%  Russia 21.6%  Thailand 21.6%  South Korea 21.4%  Madagascar 21.2%  Rwanda 21.2%  United States 21.1%  Tanzania 20.7%  Nigeria 20.3%  Democratic Republic of the Congo 20.2%  Bolivia 19.9%  New Zealand 19.9%  Malaysia 19.4%  Uruguay 18.8%  Eritrea 18.1%  South Africa 18.1%  Uganda 17.9%  Algeria 17.8%  Cameroon 17.8%  Mauritius 17.7%  Ghana 17.3%  Philippines 17.3%  India 17.0%  Saudi Arabia 16.2%  Libya 14.4%  Singapore 14.3%  Kuwait 14.1%  Jordan 14.0%  Burundi 13.3%  Egypt 12.9%  Turkey 12.8%  Sierra Leone 12.5%  Burkina Faso 12.2%  Mali 12.2%  Lebanon 11.2%  Bahrain 9.7%  United Arab Emirates 7.4%

See also

• Economy of China
• List of the largest trading partners of the United States

References