Title: China's Foreign Trade — Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America
Headings: 
China's Foreign Trade
Contents
Foreword
I. Historic Progress in China's Foreign Trade
II. Reform of and Improvements to China's Foreign Trade System
III. The Development of China's Foreign Trade Contributes to the World Economy
IV. Promoting Basically Balanced Growth of Foreign Trade
V. Constructing All-round Economic and Trade Partnerships with Mutually Beneficial Cooperation
VI. Realizing Sustainable Development of Foreign Trade
Conclusion
Foreword
I. Historic Progress in China's Foreign Trade
II. Reform of and Improvements to China's Foreign Trade System
III. The Development of China's Foreign Trade Contributes to the World Economy
IV. Promoting Basically Balanced Growth of Foreign Trade
V. Constructing All-round Economic and Trade Partnerships with Mutually Beneficial Cooperation
VI. Realizing Sustainable Development of Foreign Trade
Conclusion

Content: China's trade partners have increased from a small number of countries and regions in 1978 to 231 countries and regions now. The European Union (EU), the United States, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Japan, and the other BRIC countries have become China's major trade partners. In this new century China's trade with newly emerging markets and developing countries has maintained sustained and relatively rapid growth. In China's total trade in goods from 2005 to 2010 the proportion of trade with ASEAN increased from 9.2 percent to 9.8 percent, with other BRIC countries from 4.9 percent to 6.9 percent, with Latin America from 3.5 percent to 6.2 percent, and with Africa from 2.8 percent to 4.3 percent. (Figure 2 China's Top 10 Cargo Trade Partners in 2010)
-- China's international competitiveness in services trade has been enhanced. With its WTO entry, China's trade in services entered a new stage of development. With its scale rapidly enlarged and its pattern gradually optimized, China's trade in services now ranks among the top in the world. China's trade in tourism, transport and other fields has maintained a steady growth momentum. China's cross-border services in construction, communications, insurance, finance, computers and information, royalties and license fees, consultation and related fields, as well as service outsourcing, have been growing rapidly. From 2001 to 2010 China's total services trade value (excluding government services) witnessed a more-than-five-fold growth from 71.9 billion U.S. dollars to 362.4 billion U.S. dollars.