Reporters from yesterday's Quanzhou foreign economic and trade working conference was informed that in 2007, Quanzhou clothing and footwear export average price increased by 12% to 15%. It is reported that the quality of foreign trade in Quanzhou has been improving continuously in 2007. The growth rate of imports and exports is more balanced. The total import growth is 28.7%, and the export growth is 23.4%. The gap between imports and exports has narrowed from 17.5% last year to 5.3%, and import growth is higher than export growth. At the same time, the market development efforts continued to increase, the US, Japan, Europe and Hong Kong and ASEAN Five traditional markets exported 2 billion 885 million US dollars, an increase of 18.4%; Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, Egypt and other emerging markets exported 857 million US dollars, an increase of 50.8%. The quality of export growth is optimized, and the leading role of non-public enterprises has been enhanced. The export volume has accounted for 86.5% of the city's total, and the increase of traditional commodity volume has increased by 12% to 15%, such as clothing and footwear.