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Xiamen has achieved comprehensive expansion in terms of exports and port economy.

The total foreign trade increased from $141 million in 1980 to $691.58 billion in 2020, with an average annual growth rate of 18 percent, accounting for 49.3 percent of the province's proportion. Made-in-Xiamen products have been sold to more than 220 countries and regions, and its comprehensive foreign trade competitiveness ranks sixth among the top 100 cities in China.

It is also accelerating the construction of an international port city. The number of productive berths in Xiamen Port increased from 22 in 1980 to 176, including Zhangzhou, in 2020. The port's container throughput reached 11.4 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units, ranking seventh in the country and 14th in the world.

Xiamen Airport currently operates 175 city routes, including 36 international and regional routes, and is open to 17 international and overseas cities. Meanwhile, cross-Straits exchanges and cooperation has been comprehensively deepened. In 2020, the total value of import and export trade with Taiwan reached 40.23 billion yuan.

It will continue to consolidate its position in land-sea transport under the Belt and Road Initiative. The China-Europe Express (Xiamen) has shipped goods on a total of 910 trains with a cumulative value of 19.17 billion yuan.

Ecological civilization

Over the past 40 years, Xiamen has made fundamental progress in green and low-carbon efforts, ecological construction and spiritual civilization.

The city's energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP has dropped from 0.64 metric tons of standard coal in 2005 to 0.24 tons in 2020. Electricity and water consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP has also fallen sharply and the utilization rate of energy resources is among the highest in the country.

By the end of 2020, there were 150 parks open in the city. The per capita park area is 14.60 square meters, and the green coverage rate is 45.5 percent.

Ecological construction has achieved remarkable results. The rate of good air quality is 99.7 percent, which ranks fourth in the country.

The water quality of major river basins, such as national and provincial control sections and drinking water sources, has achieved "six 100 percent" standards, and the harmless treatment rate of domestic garbage is 100 percent.

The environmental quality satisfaction rate is the first in Fujian, and the ecological civilization index ranks it first among national prefecture-level and above cities.

Activities such as waste sorting, home cleaning, voluntary services, zebra crossings and blood donation are carried out to create a better living environment.

Meanwhile, Xiamen's characteristic hierarchical diagnosis and treatment and family doctor contract service models have been promoted nationwide.