China's trade surplus expected to decrease in 2011

Xinhua, November 4, 2011

China’s trade surplus is expected to further decrease this year, Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming said on Thursday.

"China’s trade surplus has been decreasing since the global financial crisis in 2008, and it will continue to largely decrease this year," he told a press conference on the sidelines of the two-day Group of Twenty (G20) leaders’ summit.