{"id":46612,"date":"2025-08-05T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46612\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:17:13","slug":"chinas-service-trade-grows-8-pct-in-first-half-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46612\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s service trade grows 8 pct in first half of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> China&#8217;s service trade maintained steady growth in the first half of this year, with total imports and exports reaching 3.89 trillion yuan (about 544.9 billion US dollars), up 8 percent year on year, the Ministry of Commerce said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, service exports rose 15 percent to 1.69 trillion yuan, while imports increased 3.2 percent to 2.2 trillion yuan, according to the ministry&#8217;s data. The service trade deficit narrowed by 152.2 billion yuan compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Knowledge-intensive services saw continued growth in trade, with imports and exports totaling 1.5 trillion yuan, up 6 percent year on year.<\/p>\n<p>Travel service was the largest service trade category during the first half, with total trade volume reaching 1.08 trillion yuan, up 12.3 percent from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the exports of travel services surged 68.7 percent during the period, according to the data. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s service trade maintained steady growth in the first half of this year, with total imports and exports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-46612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}