China's foreign trade volume in the past three quarters of 2005 reached 1,024.51 billion US dollars, up 23.7 percent year-on-year, according to statistics released by the General Administration of Customs (GAC) Tuesday.

Exports totaled 546.42 billion dollars, up 31 percent, and imports 478.09 billion dollars, up 16 percent year-on-year. Trade surplus reached 68.33 billion dollars.

September's trade volume reached 132.81 billion dollars, up 24.7 percent.

The value of exports amounted to 70.19 billion dollars, up 25.9 percent. That of imports was 62.62 billion dollars, up 23.5 percent.

The GAC statistics showed that exports of ordinary trade kept fast growth in the past three quarters, reaching 436.79 billion dollars, up 21.8 percent year-on-year. The trade volume of processing trade reached 489.36 billion dollars, up 26.2 percent.

The foreign trade volume of companies with foreign investment reached 590.21 billion dollars, up 24.9 percent, 1.2 percentage points more than the growth rate of the overall foreign trade volume.

The foreign trade volume of state-owned companies reached 271.79 billion dollars, up 12.7 percent, 2.6 percentage points less than in the same period last year.

Source: Xinhua