BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's service trade rose 12.7 percent year on year to reach 4.2 trillion yuan (about 659.41 billion U.S. dollars) in the first ten months of the year, the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.
Of the total, service exports totalled nearly 2 trillion yuan, up 29 percent year on year, and service imports stood at 2.2 trillion yuan, up 1.1 percent year on year.
In October alone, the country's service trade registered 413.97 billion yuan, up 24 percent year on year. Enditem
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