Profits at China's industrial companies fell in the first seven months of this year as the country grapples with pandemic-related disruptions, high temperatures and insufficient domestic demand.
China's northernmost province of Heilongjiang saw its foreign trade in goods grow 31.9 percent year-on-year to 145.06 billion yuan ($21.52 billion) in the first seven months of 2022, according to local customs.
For this year, mining exports could hit US$3.8bn, up 20% on 2021, Franco Mignacco, president of the Argentine chamber of mining entrepreneurs (CAEM), told state news agency Télam.