BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- China's foreign trade in 2010 jumped 34.7percent from a year earlier to 2.97 trillion U.S. dollars, while trade surplus fell 6.4 percent to 183.1 billion U.S. dollars from the 2009 level, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Monday.

In a breakdown, the country's exports grew 31.3 percent year on year last year to 1.58 trillion U.S. dollars while imports surged 38.7 percent to 1.39 trillion U.S. dollars, said the GAC.