China's total foreign trade volume hit 30.51 trillion yuan (about 4.5 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2018, 9.7 percentage points higher than 2017, data revealed on Monday showed.
"Overall, China's foreign trade remained stable and steady in the past year and the scale of China's imports and exports hit a record high, as the country remained the world's largest trading nation," said Li Kuiwen, spokesperson of the General Administration of Customs and director general of the Department of Statistics & Analysis.