The comprehensive bonded areas in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China posted robust trade growth in the first eight months of the year, data with customs authorities showed.

Trade volume surged by 79 percent year on year to 9.42 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) during January-August period in the zones, with imports growing by 65 percent to top 5.8 billion yuan ($863 million), and exports climbing over 106 percent to 3.6 billion yuan ($536 million), Urumqi Customs said.

Xinjiang has also seen rapid growth of cross-border e-commerce bonded imports, with a total of 19,000 cross-border bonded imported goods worth 1.27 million yuan ($189,000) entering the areas in three months by the end of August, Wu Wei, Deputy Director of Urumqi Customs said.