受金融危机影响,2009年上半年,除中国外,南非与其他传统贸易伙伴国贸易大幅下跌,使中国从南非第三大贸易伙伴国跃升为南非最大贸易伙伴国。中南贸易在南非对外贸易中的比例从2008年的8.45%提高到11.94%。2009年上半年,南非对中国出口30.21亿美元,同比增长29.48%;自中国进口38.3 Affected by the financial crisis, in the first half of 2009, with the exception of China, the trade between South Africa and other traditional trading partners dropped sharply, causing China to leap from South Africa’s third largest trading partner to South Africa’s largest trading partner. The share of South-South trade in South Africa’s foreign trade increased from 8.45% in 2008 to 11.94%. In the first half of 2009, South Africa exported 3.021 billion U.S. dollars to China, an increase of 29.48% over the same period of last year; its import from China was 38.3