China's main exports to India include electromechanical products, chemical products, textiles, plastics and rubber, ceramics and glass products, etc. China's main imports from India are iron ore, chrome ore, precious stones and metals, vegetable oils and textiles.
Most of India's imports from China during the same period were industrial and high-tech products. For example, "motor, electrical, audio-visual equipment and its zero accessories", "nuclear reactors, boilers, mechanical appliances and parts", "organic chemicals", three categories accounted for 62.5%.
Most of India's exports to China are resource products, primary products. For example, "mineral fuels, mineral oils and their products; bitumen, etc." accounted for 19.1 percent.
"Cotton" amounted to 9.3 percent, "mineral sands, slag and mine ash" amounted to 6.9 percent, "salt; sulfur; earth and stone; lime and cement, etc." amounted to 4.9 percent, "copper and its products" reached 4.5 percent, and "animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes; refined edible fats and oils" reached 2.7 percent.
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Future Prospects
India has become China's number one trading partner in South Asia. Globally, it can be included as the 12th largest trading partner. From these three concepts, we can see how close the economic ties between China and India are, and given the context of the world's economic downturn, the recovery is very weak, there is still such a scale, it is even more indicative of the two countries' economies are intrinsically closely linked to each other, can not be separated from each other.
It is precisely because of this foundation that the prospects for the development of economic and trade relations between our two countries are very favorable.
In order to meet the needs of the development of economic and trade cooperation between China and South Asian countries, and to build a platform for multi-level and wide-ranging exchanges and cooperation between China and South Asian countries, and to promote the implementation of the strategy of opening up China's Yunnan Province to the southwest, approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, the South Asian Countries Commodity Exhibition has been formally renamed as the China-South Asia Expo (COSAE), or the South China Expo for short, since 2013.
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