Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Tuesday held phone talks with his Malaysian counterpart, Zambry Abdul Kadir, with both sides vowing to advance Belt and Road cooperation.
A freight train carrying 50 new energy vehicles (NEVs) departed south China's metropolis of Guangzhou for Europe on Thursday, according to the local customs.
South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region saw its first China-Europe freight train of 2023 leave the station on Thursday.
Since its launch in December 2021, the China-Laos Railway has handled over 9 million passenger trips and 12 million tonnes of cargo, according to official figures.
Shanghai on Wednesday launched its first China-Europe cargo train of 2023, bound for several stops in Central Asia, local customs authorities said.
The value of imports and exports passing through the China-Cambodia jointly invested Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) reached 2.49 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 12 percent, SSEZ General Manager Cao Jianjiang told Xinhua on Tuesday.
Academics and officials marked the 10th anniversary of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on Monday with the launch of a scholarly book on the connectivity framework.
As of Jan. 2, customs authorities in Kunming in southwest China have handled over 2.23 million tonnes of cargo transported via the China-Laos Railway since the service was launched 13 months ago. The cargo transported was worth nearly 14.57 billion yuan (about 2.13 billion U.S. dollars).
Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, saw a surge in China-Europe freight-train trips in 2022, local authorities told a press conference on Thursday.
Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, handled 538 China-Europe freight train journeys in 2022, up more than 34 percent year on year, China Railway Wuhan Bureau Group Co., Ltd. said on Wednesday.
Since its launch in December 2021, the China-Laos Railway had handled over 9 million passenger trips as of Thursday, said the China Railway Kunming Group Co., Ltd.
The rail-sea intermodal freight trains running along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor transported a total of 756,000 TEUs of containers, up 18.5 percent year on year, said the railway authority in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Monday that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has provided a lot of tangible benefits to his country and other participating countries.
In Rwanda, Chinese firms are active in the nation's road construction, especially in Kigali and other major towns. These roads are designed and constructed according to Chinese standards. Apart from providing comfort to motorists, Chinese companies have also provided employment opportunities to many Rwandans.
The educational cooperation and exchanges between Pakistan and China are playing an important role in promoting the high-quality development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship project of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a Pakistani scholar said.
Since its operation in December 2021, the China-Laos Railway has brought great benefits to the Lao people and opened up a new path for Laos' development and prosperity.
China-led visions, including the Belt and Road Initiative, will be a major highlight of Beijing's diplomatic agenda next year to ensure they better serve the common good of the international community, officials and experts said.
A rail-sea intermodal train, carrying 265 tonnes of raw sugar from India, on Wednesday arrived in Lanzhou New Area, northwest China's Gansu Province.
The Chinese-built Nairobi expressway that stretches from the western side of the city to the southeastern edge of the metropolis currently records an average daily traffic volume of 50,000 vehicles, the operator said on Thursday.
In the first 10 months of 2022, China-European Union trade value hit 711.4 billion U.S. dollars, up 6.3 percent year-on-year. China remains the largest trading partner of the EU, and the EU remains China's second-largest trading partner
On Dec. 12, representatives of industry-leading enterprises from Xinjiang departed on a trip to Central Asian countries including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to seek business opportunities.
China and Hungary agreed on Tuesday to establish the inter-governmental Belt and Road cooperation committee to inject fresh impetus to the development of bilateral ties.
The demonstration zone, with a total planned area of 12.2 square km, is aimed at promoting bilateral cooperation in areas such as high-end manufacturing, new energy, fine chemicals, warehousing and logistics, metal processing and other industries.
A train loaded with fresh fruits arrived in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, via the China-Laos Railway on Wednesday, and another arrived in Chongqing Municipality on Thursday. They were the first deliveries of imported fruits via the railway to the two cities.
Linking Vientiane with Kunming, capital of Yunnan, the 1,035-km railway generates benefits more than just at local levels. In the first 10 months of 2022, 335,794 tourists, accounting for 85.27 percent of the total, arrived in Luang Prabang province by train, with the rest traveling by plane, bus or boat, said the province's Information, Culture and Tourism Department.
The efforts have helped products from Laos and other ASEAN countries to enter China via the China-Laos Railway while helping Chinese products to go abroad.
As a symbol of China-Laos friendship and a triumph over Laos' landlocked status, the railway's Lao section has created more than 110,000 jobs for Lao people since its opening and has drawn the interest of numerous Chinese and local young talents who pursue their professional careers on the railway.
As of Friday, the China-Laos Railway has handled over 8.5 million passenger trips and transported 11.2 million tonnes of cargo since its launch a year ago, the Chinese railway operator said.
The number of China-Europe freight train trips has increased rapidly in recent years, helping stabilize the international supply chain, according to the provincial government of east China's Jiangsu.
With a 900-metric-ton beam being safely positioned along the No 24 Bridge on the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway on Oct. 16, all the box beams on the line had been successfully installed, meaning that track-laying work can begin.