BEIJING, July 12 (Reuters) - China's yuan-denominatedexports rose 6.1% in the first half of this year from the sameperiod a year earlier, while imports increased 1.4 %, customsdata showed on Friday.
That resulted in a trade surplus of 1.23 trillion yuan($178.94 billion) for the first six months, according to customsdata.
The agency is due to release dollar-denominated tradefigures later in the day.($1 = 6.8737 Chinese yuan renminbi)(Reporting by Yawen Chen and Beijing Monitoring Desk; Editingby Kim Coghill)