China's farm produce exports reached 24.56 billion dollars in the first ten
months of the year and is expected to exceed 30 billion dollars by the end of
the year, China's Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday.
The growth rate
of the country's farm produce exports was 12.7 percent in the ten months,
according to latest figures from the ministry.
Most Chinese farm produce
exporters are small and medium-sized enterprises, said Yi Xiaozhun, Vice
Minister of Commerce at an ongoing symposium on China's farm produce
export.
The Ministry of Commerce has just provided export guidance
booklets for Chinese planters of tea, garlic, mushrooms and chickens, and will
officially launch a new website for trade of farm produce, said Yi.
From
2001 to 2005, China's export of farm produce grew at an average annual rate of
11.65 percent, ranking the fifth in the world, according to figures from the
World Trade Organization.
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