China has confidence in its ability to maintain stable trade growth in 2019 thanks to a raft of positive factors, a senior commerce official said Tuesday.

 

商务部一位高级官员周二表示，中国对维持2019年贸易稳定增长的能力有信心。

 

The gradual recovery of global economy, China's opening-up efforts and pro-trade policies, accelerating industrial upgrading and improving corporate¹ vitality² will lend strong steam to the country's trade growth this year, Chu Shijia, head of the comprehensive department of the Ministry³ of Commerce, told a conference.

 

Chu revealed that goods trade continued the upward growth momentum⁴ in January.

 

China's goods trade totaled 4.62 trillion U.S. dollars last year, up 12.6 percent year on year, faster than that of major trading nations like the United States, Germany and Japan as well as the average rate of major economies.

 

The country also saw improving trade structure last year, with growing trade with Belt and Road countries, more high-end exports and accelerating imports growth.

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