2nd LD-Writethru-Economic Watch: China's foreign trade reaches new high in H1

BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhua) -- China's foreign trade reached a new high in the first half (H1) of this year, providing additional momentum for economic recovery, official data showed Friday.

The goods trade volume expanded 6.1 percent year on year to 21.17 trillion yuan (about 2.97 trillion U.S. dollars) in the January-June period, with exports rising 6.9 percent and imports climbing 5.2 percent, according to the