China's General Administration of Customs on Wednesday announced that the country's trade surplus in the first ten months of this year stood at US$215.99 billion, with the trade surplus of October reaching US$35.24 billion.

Figures also showed that the country's combined export from January to October reached US$1.2 trillion, up 21.9 percent year on year.

The growth rate was 4.6 percentage points lower compared with the same period last year.

The administration said that China's exports topped US$128.3 billion, while its imports reached US$93.1 billion in October.

(Xinhua News Agency November 13, 2008)