China's trade volume with Cambodia up 18% last year
Trade volume between China and Cambodia was valued at $4.4 billion in2015, an 18-percent increase year-on-year, Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguosaid Thursday.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of a China-funded power transmission system insouthern Kandal province, Bu said that China imported products worth about $670 millionfrom Cambodia last year, up 38 percent year-on-year.
She attributed the annual trade growth to good relations and cooperation between the twocountries and peoples.
China imported from Cambodia mostly milled rice, dry rubber, cassava, fishery, and apparelsas the country exported to Cambodia mainly garment raw materials, machinery, vehicles, foodstuffs, electronics, medicines and cosmetics.
In 2012, the two countries agreed to boost their two-way trade volume to $5 billion by 2017.
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