On September 2015, Customs and Industrial Economy Institute, School of Public Administration(SPA), UIBE and Information Center, the General Administration of Customs(GAC) worked together in writing the China International Trade Development Report (2015). The report, based on the latest authoritative China import and export data of 2014, conducted an in-depth analysis on the characteristics of China's foreign trade development, the structure of foreign trade, foreign trade and industry and regional features, relationship with foreign trade countries and services trade. And the research also made on the issues of the goods trade effectiveness between China and FTA countries (regions), the selection and development of China FTA pilot areas, and the flow of China's trade in intermediate goods.

The report sort out the international situation of China’s foreign trade in 2014, the urgent issues to be solved and opportunities for China's industrial transformation and upgrading. Compared with the reports of previous years, its main features were as follows: firstly, the report conducted an in-depth analysis of the situation of the internal regional structure of China's foreign trade and foreign trade situation of regions specially supervised by customs. Specifically, the report studied the development status of foreign trade in different regions of China from multidimensional degrees, from the macro level of East, Middle, West and Northeast area and Beijing, Tian Jin, Hebei and Yangtze River economic belt and the Delta of the Pearl River; to the meso level of important provinces and important counties, and to micro level of customs special regulatory regions. Secondly, the report adopted the foreign trade data of various industry of national economy, according to the correspondence between China’s customs data and National Bureau of Statistics’ Industry Classification of National Economy (GB/T4754-2011), and elaborated on the general situation of foreign trade in various industries. The report also made a depth analysis on the foreign trade status of various industries of China national economy from the aspects of trade structure, internal and external region structure, the enterprise ownership structure and trade structure. When analyzing the external region structure, special consideration was given to the the trade status between China and countries along the “One Belt and One Road”. In addition, the study also analyzed and measured the competitive structure and the degree of dependence on foreign trade of the manufacturing industry in China in 2013 and 2014. Thirdly, it studied the relationship between China and Europe, America, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Africa, Oceania and other major trading partners, focusing on the impact of trade agreements between China and its trading partners on their trade and economic relations. Fourthly, the report covered the study of China's service trade for the first time, making it more comprehensive.

The data in the Report was provided by the Information Center, GAC, which was authoritative, informative and accurate. The report was of great significance to the transformation and upgrading of China's industries, regional development of foreign trade and the implementation of the enterprises’ go-global strategy.