Statistics
China's 2010 current account surplus rises 25%
Updated: 2011-02-01 08:57
(Xinhua)
BEIJING -- China's current account surplus jumped 25 percent from one year earlier to $306.2 billion last year, China's foreign exchange regulator said Monday.
The country's capital and financial account surplus hit $165.6 billion last year, compared with $109.1 billion in 2009, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said in a statement on its website.
In the fourth quarter of 2010, China's current account surplus rose 13 percent year on year to $102.2 billion, almost unchanged from the third quarter's $102.3 billion surplus.
Further, China's capital and financial account surplus amounted to $83.5 billion in the fourth quarter.
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