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A senior government official said Saturday that China's WTO
membership created a good international environment for its export
and import in 2002, which scored a growth of 21.8 percent.
Vice Minister in charge of the State Development Planning
Commission Wang Chunzheng said at a press conference of the
National People's Congress that positive factors behind the fast
foreign trade growth also include the gradual recovering of
international economy, the development of diversified destination
markets and product quality, and the sharply increased export and
import of private and foreign-funded enterprises.
He
said that this year's projected growth of foreign trade is set at 7
percent, lower than last year, considering the fierce competition
in the international market and the increasingly serious trade
protectionism.
(Xinhua News Agency March 8, 2003)
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