Current account surplus rises 20

CHINA'S current account surplus rose 20 percent to US$440 billion last year, the ratio sliding to 10 percent of the country's gross domestic product, Deng Xianhong, deputy director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, said yesterday.

Foreign-currency inflows to China slowed in the second half of last year to US$137.2 billion, he said in a televised press conference.