ECONOMY

Foreign Trade

Total imports and exports of China expanded 22 percent year on year to 35.39 trillion yuan ($5.55 trillion) in the first 11 months of 2021, according to official data released on December 7.

The figure, which has already surpassed the 32.16-trillion-yuan ($5.05 trillion) total for entire 2020, marked a 24-percent increase from the pre-pandemic level in 2019, according to the General Administration of Customs of China.

Both exports and imports continued double-digit growth in the months, surging 21.8 percent and 22.2 percent from a year earlier, respectively.

In the period, China’s