Beijing will not relax its efforts to sell Chinese products overseas in 2010 and seek a bigger share in the global market, China's vice trade minister said on Sunday. China, which may have replaced Germany to be the world's largest exporter in 2009, is a "big trading nation" but not yet a "powerful trading nation", vice commerce Minister Zhong Shan said.
"China's exports in 2010 will grow, and there's no doubt about that," Zhong said, declining to provide detailed forecasts. China's exports were hit hard by the global financial turmoil, falling 18.8 percent in the first 11 months from a year earlier. But the market share for Chinese products has increased in 2009 as sales from other countries have fallen even more deeply, Zhong told a forum at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.
Other countries have blamed China's unofficial policy of repegging the yuan to the dollar since the summer of 2008 for making its products artificially competitive.
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