China's foreign trade hits historic high in 2018

Aerial photo taken on Dec. 31, 2018 shows homemade vehicles at a port in Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province. China's foreign trade rose 9.7 percent year on year to a historic high of 30.51 trillion yuan (about 4.5 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2018, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Monday. The value was 2.7 trillion yuan higher than that of 2017, according to the GAC. (Xinhua/Geng Yuhe)