China's external debt more than $ 400 billion

China's total external debt at the end of last year amounted to 428.6 billion dollars. In particular, short-term debt - 265.26 billion dollars. Reported by the Xinhua news agency referring to the State Monetary Authority of China. Of the total short-term external debt of 161.7 billion dollars at the current accounts receivable for foreign trade transactions and 97.56 billion dollars - on other types of short-term loans. Certainly, the level of sovereign debt does not threaten the stability of the Chinese economy. Volume of all short-term debt - it is only 10.81% of the total foreign exchange reserves of China. Last year, long-term and medium-term debt amounted to 169.4 billion dollars. Over-year growth amounted to 22.45 billion dollars, thus, its rate of growth decreased in comparison with 2008 by 38.18%.