Linyi city business bureau to provide the data show that from 2001 at the beginning of the WTO to $529 million in, by the end of October 2011 to $27.67 billion, ten years China's entry to the WTO, the foreign trade import and export sales rose more than 50 times, willow basket foreign trade import and export has become an important force in promoting the economic growth, especially the willow laundry baskets products.

Since joining, the foreign trade import and export realize the leaping development, realize the import and export of 27.67 billion us dollars, including 2010 years to achieve import and export $4.77 billion, is nine times in 2001, export products include hardware mechanical and electrical, fruit and vegetable processing, the plate, the willow, the rattan products, the wooden cabinet more than 10 categories of products, nationality development to North America, Europe and so on, more than 190 countries. In recent three years, exports 4% growth of national economy, foreign tax accounting for about 20%  of the total amount of tax.

Through the positive export drive the implementation of the strategy, the city's cultivating the willow basket supplier, rattan products factory, wooden shelf suppliers the features of a large number of vegetable export leading enterprise, also export structure also realization primary product mainly manufactured goods mainly to change, and positive high added value, high tech content of the mechanical and electronic products, high-tech products transition. At present our city the proportion of export primary agricultural products from 70% in 2001 to more than 20% of the current decline to the left.

At the same time, the accumulative total since its accession to the WTO use of foreign investment projects approved by more than 1400, foreign investment $3 billion contract, the actual use of foreign capital 2.1 billion dollars, with an average annual increase of 50% or more. In 2010, the total actual use of foreign capital 327 million dollars, is four times that of 2001, including willow baskets, rattan products and wooden shelf, music and break basket home food and other world 500 strong suppliers. In addition, the city's foreign economic cooperation development is rapid, foreign investment projects from 2001 five increased to 2011 in October to 228, foreign investment, to $1.08 billion.