
The 3rd Linyi Trade City International Sourcing Conference for Belt and Road Cooperation opened on Friday in Linyi, Shandong province, attracting over 2,000 buyers from nearly 100 countries and regions.
In Chengdu, globalization is no longer an abstract idea. It now has a smell, a taste and a bite, and arrives faster, fresher and closer than anyone could have imagined.
The China-Laos Railway has seen more than 60 million passenger trips since its launch, carrying 595,000 cross-border travelers from 115 countries and regions as of Wednesday, China Railway Kunming Group has said.
Serbia on Wednesday launched regular high-speed train services between Belgrade and Subotica, marking the full operation of the country's first 200-km-per-hour railway line, a landmark project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative.
North China's Shanxi Province launched its first rail-road intermodal freight train along the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan intermodal transport corridor on Monday, marking the start of a new international logistics route linking the province with Central Asia, according to China Railway Taiyuan Group Co., Ltd.
In northern Cote d'Ivoire, a new two-lane highway hums with trucks while women balance baskets of mangoes and bananas, calling out to passing drivers along the roadside.
Ningbo-Zhoushan Port launched the China-Europe Arctic Express — the world's first regular container service linking China with Europe through the Arctic Ocean — on Monday, enhancing the country's supply chain resilience and safety.
The establishment of Zhengzhou-Kuala Lumpur "Air Silk Road" has strengthened the logistics and trade bond between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China, and is expected to accelerate economic growth in the coming years, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook has said.
China and Bulgaria on Wednesday held a conference on urban and regional cooperation in Sofia, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of a cooperation document on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) between the two countries.
As of Sept. 22, freight trains departing from Guangxi heading to Vietnam have transported a total of 26,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of export goods, marking a year-on-year surge of 173 percent, according to the China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd.
Cooperation through the "Air Silk Road" will enhance the air freight sector between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), with Malaysia emerging as a key regional hub, according to aviation sector experts.
The reinterpretation of ancient Dunhuang culture has become a driving force behind the cultural and tourism boom.
Through the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, ASEAN products, from Vietnamese and Indonesian rubber to Cambodian rice and Thai coconuts, are steadily making their way into China.
Senior officials and international guests attending the 8th Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo have called for enhanced cultural exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations against a backdrop of global divisions.
Since the operation of the China-Laos Railway, the total number of freight trains operational along the line has exceeded 60,000 as of Sept. 19, with a freight volume of over 67.6 million tons, including more than 15 million tons of cross-border trade.
Horgos Port, a major railway hub in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has handled over 7,000 China-Europe (Central Asia) freight train trips since the beginning of this year, according to railway sources on Tuesday.
Egyptian entrepreneur Hany Sobhy considers himself a citizen of Quanzhou in east China's Fujian Province. Ten years ago, he launched his garment export business in the city that is widely believed to be the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road.
The 10th Belt and Road Summit concluded in Hong Kong on Thursday, with collaboration deepened in emerging industries.
In recent years, fruits and vegetables from Yunnan have gained popularity across ASEAN markets. Grapes, citrus, mushrooms and other specialty products have emerged as leading exports.
The 10th Belt and Road Summit opened in Hong Kong on Wednesday, convening key officials and business leaders from Belt and Road countries and regions to explore new opportunities for collaboration and forge a win-win future.
From January to July this year, the China-Europe freight train from southwest China's Chengdu and Chongqing has made over 3,400 trips, transporting more than 280,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of import and export goods.
Even after the summer transportation peak, the China-Laos Railway remains a bustling hub for international freight, as front-end loaders at Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, shuttle busily to load and unload cold-chain containers brimming with durian.
Compared with sea transportation, the cold-chain express of the China-Laos Railway cuts transit time by roughly 70 percent, said Chen, while slashing costs by about 50 percent compared to air freight.
The New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, a key logistics network connecting China's western regions to global markets, had transported over 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo this year as of Thursday, marking a record high, according to China Railway Nanning Group.
A tourism promotion event highlighting the Hexi Corridor, a key artery of the ancient Silk Road, was held in Shanghai on Friday, attracting diplomats, entrepreneurs and representatives from international organizations to explore the corridor's millennia-old history and discuss opportunities for cooperation.
Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, is a pivotal entry-exit point for the central route of the China-Europe railway service. As of Sept. 3, inbound and outbound passenger traffic volumes and the number of vehicles driving through Erenhot reached 1.976 million and 512,000, respectively, up by 13.2 percent and 16.6 percent compared with the same period of last year.
As of Sept. 1, Alashankou Port, also known as Alataw Pass, a primary land port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, had handled over 5,000 China-Europe (Central Asia) freight train trips this year, according to China Railway Urumqi Group Co., Ltd.
The second phase of a Chinese-aided rural infrastructure development and poverty alleviation project in Laos has been completed and handed over.
The China-Laos Railway launched two-way operations of the international freight train service between Yuxi and Vientiane on Saturday.
The China-Europe Railway Express departing from Shenzhen marked its fifth anniversary on Monday, with a train carrying home appliances, electronics and other goods bound for Russia.