Industrial cooperation offers way to expand trade with ASEAN

Foreign Trade | Xu Ningning

Trade between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations reached a record high of $400.9 billion in 2012 and the biggest progress in trade facilitation was a consensus on the launch of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.

Sino-ASEAN trade was up 10.2 percent year-on-year, compared with the country's total trade growth of 6.2 percent in 2012.