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China's foreign trade reported an 8.8 percent increase, hitting 75.73 billion U.S. dollars-worth, in the first two months of this year, according to figures just released by the General Administration of Customs.
The statistics show that China's exports and imports in January and February increased to 40.84 billion U.S. dollars-worth and 34.89 billion U.S. dollars-worth respectively, up 14.1 and 3.2 percent year-on-year.
China's exports to the United States increased by a large margin, while its exports to the European Union and Japan showed a weakening tendency.
More notably, China's imports from Russia, Japan, the United States and European Union all decreased, according to the statistics.
(Xinhua News Agency March 15, 2002）
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