Since the beginning of this year, north China's Tianjin Port has seen nearly 500 China-Europe and China-Central Asia freight train trips. The freight train service is of great significance to further promote the coordinated development of the international logistics in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
The Nairobi Expressway, which can best be described as Kenya's most beautiful road, has become a favorite for the most unlikely group in the East African nation.
The Belt and Road cooperation has contributed to promoting global human rights cause, a group of experts and scholars said at a symposium Tuesday.
China hopes and believes the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, once in operation, will help ease transportation for the Indonesian people and unleash local potential for economic development, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday.
The Belt and Road Initiative is enhancing economic ties between China and Central and Eastern European Countries, with a recent conference in Bulgaria emphasizing Bulgaria's strategic role and the Initiative's effect in globalization.
The value of imports and exports passing through the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) in Cambodia reached 2.22 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of 2023, a year-on-year increase of 27.3 percent, said an operator's press statement on Thursday.
Dunhuang, a major stop on the ancient Silk Road which witnessed the trade of silk and porcelain over 2,000 years ago, is seeing new vitality and booming trade of commodities among Belt and Road countries.
Hong Kong is a participant, contributor and beneficiary in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and will continue to play a key role in the high-quality development of the BRI, said participants at the 8th Belt and Road Summit held Wednesday in Hong Kong.
As of Sunday, the inbound and outbound China-Europe freight trains passing through northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have totaled 10,017 this year, up 10.1 percent year on year, according to China Railway Urumqi Group Co., Ltd.
The two-day Belt and Road Summit kicked off in Hong Kong on Wednesday, drawing nearly 6,000 people from various countries and regions, together with high-level government representatives from at least 10 countries and approximately 100 delegations, making it the largest gala since the establishment of the annual event in 2016.
Total import and export cargo throughput via China-Europe freight trains handled since 2013 by Erenhot Port, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, had exceeded 12 million tonnes as of Monday.
Bangladeshi government officials have called for increased cooperation under the framework of the China-proposed BRI, which they said has brought great changes to the South Asian country.
With the memorandum signed in January 2021, the "Two Countries, Twin Parks" project represents a solid step to synergize the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and Indonesia's vision of the Global Maritime Fulcrum.
China and Indonesia are embracing closer economic ties with Belt and Road cooperation projects advancing at full throttle.
The BRI raiway is one of the government-to-government (G2G) projects and one of the largest infrastructure projects in Bangladesh, said Shi, stressing that "we are very happy and proud to be involved in such an important project."
Mohan Port on China's border with Laos has cleared a total of 1,000,541 individuals hailing from 64 countries and regions this year, according to port authorities.
The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) project is an outstanding example of bilateral cooperation between Indonesia and China, the executive of the railway operator said.
To keep up with the digital transformation trends, the Digital Silk Road was launched. As of November 2022, China had established the Digital Silk Road cooperation mechanism with 16 countries and advanced Silk Road E-commerce bilateral cooperation mechanism with 26 countries, including Pakistan.
The First Dhaka Elevated Expressway, one of Bangladesh's major flagship infrastructure projects, partly opened to traffic on Sunday, setting a milestone in the country's transportation history.
The eighth edition of Hong Kong's Belt and Road Summit will be held on Sept. 13-14, featuring a new Middle East forum, the organizer said Thursday.
China will host the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing in October, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Thursday.
In recent years, a number of Chinese scholars have set out from Xi'an to explore the cultural relics of the ancient Silk Road, together with scholars from countries along the Belt and Road.
Ancient Chinese healing methods have been spreading along the Silk Road for over two millennia, but the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has further boosted the internationalization of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
Investments from China have breathed new life into a Greek port that once hit development bottlenecks, making it a flagship project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative.
Since its launch in 2021, the China-Laos Railway has helped Laos to convert itself from a landlocked country to a land-linked hub in the Indo-China Peninsula, benefiting both countries and beyond.
South China's economic hub Shenzhen has handled 516 China-Europe freight train trips since the service was launched in August 2020, carrying 361,100 tonnes of export goods with a value of 10.8 billion yuan (about 1.5 billion U.S. dollars), Shenzhen Customs said on Thursday.
Massive advances have occurred through jointly building the Belt and Road over the past decade, said a Chinese government official.
Braving the heatwaves, Behzod, an operator in a natural gas field, and his colleagues headed to their workstation in the vast Karakum Desert, situated in the central Asian country of Turkmenistan, renowned for boasting the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves.
China's non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) in countries along the Belt and Road route reached 95.34 billion yuan (US$13.09 billion) in the first seven months of this year, up 23.2% year on year. This accounted for 19% of China's total non-financial ODI in the same period, an official of the Ministry of Commerce said at a press conference Tuesday.
The Belt and Road Trade and Investment Promotion conference will take place during the sixth China-Arab States Expo, which will run from Sept. 21 to 24 in Yinchuan, the capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, said local authorities Tuesday.