my country's petroleum and chemical industry is active in foreign trade

[China Epoxy Resin Industry Online] November 23, 2005: According to Xinhua News Agency, since 2005, my country’s petroleum and chemical industry has continued to strengthen and improve macro-control and the national economy has maintained steady and rapid development.
Foreign trade is active, showing a steady and rapid growth overall.
From January to September, the total import and export trade of the whole industry reached 146.
51 billion US dollars, an increase of 29.
6% over the same period last year, and the increase was nearly 6 percentage points higher than the national foreign trade.
The status of import and export trade has also shown new characteristics that are different from previous years, namely, rapid growth in exports and slower growth in imports.
Although the trade deficit is still rising, the rate of increase has slowed down.
The growth rate of exports is faster than that of imports this year.