Bilateral trade between China and ASEAN amounts to USD111.8b in first five months
Xu Ningning, Secretary-General of China-ASEAN Business Council, said on attending the economic and trade activities of Wuhan enterprises into the ASEAN that the bilateral trade value between China and ASEAN amounted to USD111.8b in the first five months of 2010, with an increase of nearly 58%, and the ASEAN had surpassed Japan becoming China's third largest trading partner.
China says trade with its close ally North Korea nearly doubled in the first seven months of the year compared with the same period in 2010.