Continuing the rapid growth trend, Chinas foreign trade grew by 17.6% in the first eight months.

China's foreign trade continues to show rapid growth. The General Administration of Customs released data on September 8 showing that in the first eight months of this year, the total value of China's goods import and export trade reached 34.78 trillion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate continuing to rise to 17.6%, an acceleration of 0.3 percentage points compared to the first seven months. Among them, exports amounted to 20.17 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.6%; imports reached 14.61 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22%. In August alone, China's total import and export value was 4.65 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.8%. Of this, exports and imports grew by 18.6% and 21.7% respectively, maintaining double-digit growth for four consecutive months, with the year-on-year growth rate of imports surpassing that of exports for six consecutive months. This article is reproduced from Xinhua News Agency, GMTEight editor: Chen Wenfang.