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China's foreign debt totalled $548.9bn at end-2010

BEIJING: China's outstanding foreign debt was $549 billion at the end of 2010, the country's foreign exchange regulato
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BEIJING: China's outstanding foreign debt was $549 billion at the end of 2010, the country's foreign exchange regulator said in a statement on Thursday.

Short-term debt accounted for 68.4 percent of all foreign debt at $375.7 billion, the regulator said.

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