China’s main exports to India include electrical and electronic products, chemical products, textiles, plastics and rubber, ceramics and glass products, etc. China’s main imports from India are iron ore, chromium ore, gems and precious metals, vegetable oil, Textiles etc.

In the same period, most of the goods India imported from China were industrial products and high-tech products. For example, "motor, electrical, audio-visual equipment and parts and accessories", "nuclear reactors, boilers, mechanical equipment and parts", and "organic chemicals" accounted for 62.5% of the total.

Most of India’s exports to China are resource products and primary products. For example, "mineral fuels, mineral oil and their products; asphalt, etc." accounted for 19.1.

"Cotton" reached 9.3, "ore sand, slag and ash" reached 6.9, "salt; sulfur; soil and stone; lime and cement, etc." reached 4.9; "copper and its products" It reached 4.5, and "animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes; refined edible fats and oils" reached 2.7.

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Future prospects

India has become China’s largest trading partner in South Asia. Globally, it can be listed as the 12th largest trading partner. From these three concepts, we can see how close the economic ties between China and India are, and considering the background of the world economic downturn and the weak recovery, there is such a scale, which further illustrates the economic potential of the two countries. Inner close connection, inseparable 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 promising.

In order to meet the development needs of economic and trade cooperation between China and South Asian countries, build a multi-level and wide-area exchange and cooperation platform between China and South Asian countries, and promote the implementation of the development strategy of Yunnan Province in China opening to the southwest, with the approval of the State Council of China, The South Asian Countries Commodity Exhibition has been officially renamed as China-South Asia Expo, referred to as South Asia Expo, since 2013.

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