China's rice exports soared 69.1 percent year-on-year in the first ten month to 968,000 MT due to recovering grain output after years of stagnancy and sluggish growth.

Statistics released by China Customs Thursday showed that the value of the rice exports in the period reached 330 million U.S. dollars, up 71.7 percent year-on-year. China Customs attributed the soar to the recovering grain output which has been growing for three consecutive years.

China stopped rice export in March of 2004 due to grain output decline in the previous four years and resumed it in the next April.