ASEAN becomes China's largest trading partner in H1

ASEAN overtook the EU to become China's largest trading partner in the first half of 2020, with trade up 5.6% year on year to 2.09 trillion yuan, accounting for 14.7% of China's total foreign trade, the spokesperson of the General Administration of Customs said at an SCIO press conference on Tuesday.

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