China's trade surplus hits $34 billion

China's trade surplus hit 33.8 billion U.S. dollars in November, according to the General Administration of Customs on Sunday.

Foreign trade stood at 370.61 billion U.S. dollars in November, including 202.21 billion U.S. dollars of exports and 168.4 billion U.S. dollars of imports.

Exports went up 12.7 percent year on year and imports went up 5.3 percent year on year.

This is the second month of a year-on-year rise in exports, which reversed its decline in October, up 5.6 percent from a year earlier to 185.4 billion U.S. dollars.