NANNING — South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region saw its foreign trade volume reach 61.56 billion yuan (about $9 billion) in July, up 18.8 percent year-on-year, according to the regional commerce department.

This is a record-high figure in terms of the region's import and export volume in a single month.

From January to July, the foreign trade volume of Guangxi totaled about 301.2 billion yuan, down 12.4 percent year-on-year.

In July, Guangxi's import and export of general trade was 27.01 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 60.6 percent, while the import and export of its processing trade came in at 12.52 billion yuan, up 16.3 percent year-on-year. The region's import and export of bonded logistics reached 13.51 billion yuan, up 9.8 percent from the previous year.