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China's trade situation to stabilise, improve in 2016 - commerce minister

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Reuters BEIJING

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said he was confident that China's trade conditions would stabilise and improve in 2016, he said in an interview with state television on Friday.

China's January exports and imports shrank much faster than expected, according to official data, with exports falling 11.2 percent from a year earlier and imports declining 18.8 percent.

(Reporting by Beijing Monitoring Desk; Editing by Himani Sarkar)

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First Published: Feb 19 2016 | 3:08 PM IST

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