China's crude oil imports amounted to 15.65 million tons in August this year, representing a rise of 11.4% from 14.04 million tons a year earlier, or about 3.7 million barrels per day, according to statistics from the General Administration of Customs.

    In the corresponding period, China imported 3.34 million tons of oil products, compared with 2.53 million tons a year earlier.

    During the first eight months this year, China imported 120 million tons of crude oil and 28.72 million tons of oil products, up 8.7% and 18.3% over the same period last year.

    The statistics also showed China's exports of crude oil and oil products hit 400,000 tons and 1.4 million tons respectively in August.

    Over the Jan-Aug period, exports of crude oil dropped 23.7% from a year ago to 2.22 million tons, while those of oil products rose 6.3% to 10.93 million tons.

    However, figures about exports of gasoline, diesel oil, fuel, aviation oil and other fuel oil products were not provided.

    It was also predicted that there would be no diesel imports in September, and imports of gasoline would be about 100,000 tons.