China's foreign trade hit $4.6 tln in 2019

China's foreign trade rose by 3.4 percent year on year to a historic high of 31.54 trillion yuan (about 4.6 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2019, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Tuesday.

Exports stood at 17.23 trillion yuan last year, up five percent from a year earlier, while imports came in at 14.31 trillion yuan, up 1.6 percent, resulting in a trade surplus of 2.92 trillion yuan, which expanded by 25.4 percent, customs data showed.