Original title: China's largest land port imported edible vegetable oil worth 200 million yuan in the first August of this year
Beijing, September 26, Manzhouli (reporter Li Aiping) according to the external news of Manzhouli Customs on the 26th, in the first August of this year, China's largest land port - Manzhouli Port imported 24000 tons of edible vegetable oil, with a year-on-year increase of 394.7% and a value of 200 million yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 550.2%.
It is worth mentioning that in August this year alone, the import of edible vegetable oil at the port reached 5000 tons, with a value of 40 million yuan. From the perspective of trade countries, all these imported edible vegetable oil came from Russia.
Manzhouli Port is located in the west of Hulunbuir grassland in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, in the China Russia Mongolia triangle, bordering Russia in the north and Mongolia in the West. It is the traffic hub of the first Eurasian Continental Bridge, an important international thoroughfare between China and Russia and other CIS countries and European countries, and also the largest border land port in China.
The customs revealed that in the first August of this year, China imported 1.784 million tons of rapeseed oil, a year-on-year increase of 41.1%. The Customs said that since this year, the international rapeseed supply has been tight, and the market demand has driven the increase of rapeseed oil import. (end)