Nation sees solid foreign trade growth

China registered robust growth in imports and exports of goods in January, while its trade surplus with the United States shrank amid rising China-US trade tensions, the General Administration of Customs said on Thursday.

The country's imports surged by 30.2 percent year-on-year to 1.19 trillion yuan ($188.34 billion) in January, while exports increased by 6 percent to 1.32 trillion yuan, according to the GAC.

The rising import momentum "indicates domestic demand remains healthy going into 2018", Louis Kuijs, an economist of Oxford Economics, said in a report.