China must facilitate trade

Nation still needs to improve market access, ministry official says

China is actively open to advancing trade facilitation because not only is it in accordance with the country's reforms to its economic system but also helps it enhance its participation in global trade, a commerce official said on Friday.

"In terms of promoting trade facilitation, China holds an actively open stance," Chai Xiaolin, director-general of the Department of World Trade Organization Affairs at the Ministry of Commerce, told a forum on trade facilitation held by the ministry and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.