Ministry of Commerce organized regular news conference in recent days to brief the commercial operation from January to April. The import and export in China in April still suffers negative growth, but the decreasing width of export narrow down.

According to Shan Danyang, news spokesman of Ministry of Commerce, by the preliminary statistics from customs, the import and export value of China amounts to RMB 1.96 trillion in April 2015, with a decline of 10.9% on year on year basis, in which: the export value is RMB 1.08 trillion with a decline of 6.2%; the import value is RMB 0.87 trillion with a decline of 16.1%; the surplus is RMB 210.2 billion with a growth of 85.2%. The import and export value of China amounts to USD 318.5 bullion with a decline of 11.1% as calculated by US Dollars, in which: the export value is USD 176.3 billion with a decline of 6.4%; the import value is USD 142.2 billion with a decline of 16.2%; the surplus is USD 34.1 billion with a growth of 82.9%.