(Yicai Global) June 12 -- China's service trade climbed 4.1 percent year on year to 1.74 trillion yuan (about 252.84 billion U.S. dollars) in the first four months of the year, data showed Wednesday.

In breakdown, service exports rose 10.1 percent during the period, while that of imports gained 1.1 percent, leading to a deficit of 506.06 billion yuan in service trade, down 9.7 percent from one year earlier, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce.