NE China province reports nearly 20% rise in trade with Russia

 HARBIN, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The trade volume between northeast China's Heilongjiang Province and Russia from January to July totaled 12.3 billion U.S. dollars, up 19.5 percent year on year, the provincial¹ Bureau of Commerce announced Saturday.

The volume of imports from Russia in the past seven months stood at 9.72 billion U.S. dollars, up 23.8 percent year on year, while the export volume amounted to 2.59 billion U.S. dollars, up 5.8 percent year on year.

Statistics show that Heilongjiang Province saw bilateral² trade with Russia reach 18.99 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, accounting³ for 24 percent of China's total trade volume with Russia.

China and Russia have made efforts to realize their target of a 100-billion-U.S.-dollar bilateral trade volume in 2015.

1 provincial   

adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

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2 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

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3 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

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• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
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