China's international trade in goods and services surplus amounted to 115bn

On September 26, the Foreign Exchange Administration released the data of China's international trade in goods and services in August 2019. In August 2019, China's income from international trade in goods and services in terms of balance of payments was 1621.6 billion yuan, and its expenditure was 156.5 billion yuan, with a surplus of 115.1 billion yuan. Among them, the income of trade in goods was 1487.3 billion yuan, the expenditure was 1186.7 billion yuan, the surplus was 30.6 billion yuan, the income of trade in services was 134.3 billion yuan, the expenditure was 319.8 billion yuan, and the deficit was 185.5 billion yuan.

In dollar terms, in August 2019, China's revenue from international trade in goods and services in terms of balance of payments was 231 billion US dollars, expenditure was 214.6 billion US dollars, and surplus was 16.4 billion US dollars. Among them, goods trade income is 211.8 billion US dollars, expenditure is 169 billion US dollars, surplus is 42.8 billion US dollars, service trade income is 19.1 billion US dollars, expenditure is 45.5 billion US dollars, deficit is 26.4 billion US dollars.