Recently, the China Customs magazine, sponsored by the General Administration of Customs of China, announced the ranking of China's top 100 foreign trade cities in 2018. Chenzhou City scored ninetieth in the overall score of 70.2 points.

In 2018, the scale of China's trade import and export reached a record high, and the status of the world's largest trade in goods was further stabilized. In 2018, in the 298 cities participating in the competitiveness evaluation of China's cities, the growth rate of foreign trade and imports and exports of 152 cities exceeded 10 percent and while that of 93 cities increased by more than 20 percent.