China’s foreign trade has seen very positive growth in the first eight months of the year, with total goods imports and exports reaching 34.78 trillion yuan ($5.18 trillion), up 17.6 percent year-on-year, 0.3 percentage points faster than in the first seven months, official customs data released on Tuesday showed.

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