According to Chinese statistics,Sino-US trade volume was 2.45 billion US dollars in 1979 but rocketed to 42.84 billion US dollars in 1996,with an accumulative volume of 260.6 billion US dollars over the past 18 years.

• 据中国方面的统计，1979年中美贸易额为24.；5亿美元，1996年达到428