Economic Watch: Stronger-than-expected trade growth underlines China's economic resilience

Aerial photo taken on Nov. 8, 2018 shows the container terminal operation area at Tonghai Port in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province. For the first 10 months of 2018, China's foreign trade totaled 25.05 trillion yuan (3.614 trillion U.S. dollars), up 11.3 percent year on year, with export up 7.9 percent, hitting 13.35 trillion yuan (1.926 trillion dollars), and import up 15.5 percent, hitting 11.7 trillion yuan (1.69 trillion dollars) year on year respectively. (Xinhua/Xu Congjun)