Hebei's foreign trade grows 22.4%

SHIJIAZHUANG: North China's Hebei province saw its foreign trade grow 22.4 percent year on year to 488 billion yuan (about $76.6 billion) in the first 11 months of this year, according to the customs in the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang.

Of the total, the export volume was about 270.8 billion yuan, up 20.6 percent year on year, and the total import volume grew by 24.6 percent to about 217.3 billion yuan.