Chinanews.net client, April 17 (Xie Yiguan) The National Bureau of Statistics released the first quarter China economic data on the 17th. In the first quarter, the total import and export of goods was 657.42 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 6.4%. Among them, the total import and export volume in March was 2,445.9 billion yuan, a decrease of 0.8% year-on-year, and the decrease was 8.7 percentage points narrower than that in January-February. Exports were 1,272.7 billion yuan, down 3.5%; imports were 11,523.2 billion yuan, up 2.4%, of which general trade imports were up 4.0%. In the first quarter, exports were 3.3363 trillion yuan, down 11.4%; imports were 3.238 trillion yuan, down 0.7%. The balance of imports and exports, trade surplus of 98.3 billion yuan.