(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-03-19 17:05

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Hong Kong's total exports to the Chinese mainland, mainland for outwards processing, rose 10 percent to about HK$451.5 billion (about $57.88 billion), revealed the Census and Statistics Department here Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Hong Kong's imports from the Chinese mainland related to outward processing grew 1 percent to HK$780 billion ($100 billion), according to the Census and Statistics Department.

About HK$841 billion ($107.82 billion) of Hong Kong's re-exports of Chinese mainland origin to other places were produced through outward processing in China's mainland, up 3 percent on a year earlier.

In the fourth quarter, about HK$119.2 billion ($15.28 billion) of Hong Kong's total exports to the Chinese mainland were for outward processing, up 13 percent over the same period in 2006.