The Information Office of the Shandong Provincial People's Government held a press conference on October 21 to brief on the province's foreign trade imports and exports in the first three quarters. The total value of the province's agricultural imports and exports reached RMB 251.12 billion, up 6.4% year on year—1.1 percentage points higher than the national growth rate for agricultural imports and exports, and accounting for 14.4% of the country's total agricultural import and export value during the same period. Of this total, agricultural exports amounted to RMB 128.84 billion, up 5.8%, while agricultural imports reached RMB 122.28 billion, up 7%.

As the saying goes, agriculture is the foundation of a nation, and a stable foundation brings peace to the country. While consolidating its strengths in agricultural output and processing scale, Shandong is steadily advancing quality upgrading and brand building in agriculture.