外经贸人期待已久的目标终于提前1个月实现了!根据海关总署12月9日发布的统计数据,2004年1-11月全国进出口总值达10383.8亿美元,同比增长36.5％,其中出口5296.1亿美元,进口5087.7亿美元,分别增长35.7％和37.3％;累计实现贸易顺差208.4亿美元。中国首次实现了年度对外贸易额突破1万亿美元的目标,跃居仅次于美、德两国的世界第三贸易大国指日可待。 According to the statistics released by the General Administration of Customs on December 9, the total value of the country’s import and export from January to November 2004 amounted to 1,038.38 billion U.S. dollars, up 36.5% on a year-on-year basis, Of this total, exports reached 529.61 billion U.S. dollars with imports of 508.77 billion U.S. dollars, up 35.7 percent and 37.3 percent respectively. The cumulative trade surplus reached 20.84 billion U.S. dollars. For the first time, China has achieved the goal of exceeding 1 trillion U.S. dollars in annual foreign trade volume, making it the third largest trading power in the world after the United States and Germany.