BEIJING, June 30 -- The private-owned enterprise having a trading volume of export between 1 million to 10 million U.S. dollars in southern China's Guangdong Province are experiencing a promising increase despite the negative impact of the on-going global financial crisis, according to the statistics from Guangdong Branch of the Customs on Sunday.

    It is learned that there are 17,423 private enterprises have conducted export business in first five months of this year, 4,410 of them are the new ones which have their products exported to overseas market, accounting for 23.5 percent in total exporting enterprises. Meanwhile, there were 3,988 private enterprises withdraw from the export market in 2009, accounting for 25.3 percent of the total exporting enterprises in 2008.

    The statistics indicated that 5,088 private enterprises recorded a trading volume of exports between 1 million to 10 million U.S. dollars in the first five months this year with a total trading volume of 22.09 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 71 percent of the total exports in the province.

    The statistics also showed that private enterprises having recorded a trading volume of over 100 million U.S. dollars this year increased by 5.4 percent compared to that of last year, indicating a promising development both in trading volume and competitiveness in the overseas market.

    Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Guangzhou. (XHTV)

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