Fuzhou has been enlisted as one of the 100 cities on trading recently, sources with the Fuzhou Custom. Fuzhou scored 71.0 in terms of competitivenss on trade.

It is learnt that the evaluation of "China's top 100 foreign trade cities" counts on 5 indicators, namely, foreign trade competitiveness in terms of level, structure, benefit, development and latent capacity, so it enjoys higher reliability and authoritativeness. Among the four enlisted cities in Fujian province, Xiamen ranks 6th; Quanzhou ranks 62nd; Longyan is in the 77th place.

Data from the Customs of China show that the total foreign trade value of Fujian province during the previous 7 months reached $75.01 billion, increased by 25.5 percent as compared with that in the same period last year.