China's trade deficit with Asian countries continued to expand

10 held in the Ministry of Commerce, "China and the Asian economic and trade cooperation," special news conference, Secretary of Commerce in Asia, said Lu Kejian, China's trade deficit with Asian countries continued to widen. In 2009, China's trade deficit of 34.9 billion U.S. dollars in Asia this year, January-April, the deficit has reached 45.5 billion U.S. dollars, the highest record over the same period; the Republic of Korea, Japan and ASEAN reached 22.1 billion U.S. dollars deficit, respectively, 17.7 billion U.S. dollars and 59 billion dollars.

China and Asia's economic and trade cooperation, whether it is trade, mutual investment or project contracting and labor service cooperation has been restored over the same period before the outbreak of the financial crisis level." Lu Kejian said.