A freight train carrying 5,000 refrigerators left Heifei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, on Saturday for Moscow, Russia, marking the 400th trip of the China-Europe freight trains in Hefei this year.
The northern Chinese port city of Tianjin witnessed a 21 percent year-on-year growth in trade with B&R countries in August, the local customs authorities said Tuesday.
With the last casting of concrete on the top of the main building of the future Nateuy station, the China Railway Construction Engineering Group (CRCEG) finished building the first station along the China-Laos railway on Wednesday.
To date, Xiamen has opened 51 new shipping routes to the Maritime Silk Road, attracting nearly 170 well-known companies involved in ports, shipping, logistics, and trade worldwide.
The Belt and Road (B&R) International Art Project Exhibition opened Saturday at the Zhejiang Art Museum in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang province.
The cross-border tunnel on the China-Laos Railway was completed on Sunday, according to local authorities.
As the coronavirus pandemic severely hits international transport, the China-Europe freight trains play a pivotal role in land transport among countries, as shown by the rising number of trains, opening of new routes, and the volume of goods.
The train, which left China via the Alataw Pass, a major rail port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was traveling on one of the growing routes for the China-Europe freight train program, a rail connectivity project initiated by China to boost exchanges with European countries.
The 2020 China International Fair for Investment & Trade (CIFIT) and the Belt and Road Investment Congress opened on Tuesday in Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province, offering opportunities to promote investment and economic cooperation worldwide.
A freight train on Saturday left Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, for Dourges in France, marking the launch of a new rail cargo service between Hefei and Europe.
ASEAN remained China's biggest trading partner during the same period, accounting for 14.6 percent of its total foreign trade volume.
China-Europe and China-Asia freight train services help China's Shandong trade more with countries along the Belt and Road (B&R). The "Qilu" trains send medical supplies to Eurasian countries amid the pandemic. Shandong is running 36 international freight train routes linking its cities with 42 cities of 14 B&R countries. Its foreign trade with B&R countries rose 5.5 percent year on year to 346.34 billion yuan (50.25 billion U.S. dollars) in the first seven months of this year.
The number of China-Europe freight trains handled by the customs of Alataw Pass, a major rail port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has exceeded 3,000, the customs authority said.
A contest on the theme of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the "Tell China's Stories" Contest 2020 and a seminar on Qingdao building a new platform for international cooperation under the BRI framework were launched in Jiaozhou of Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, on Aug. 21, 2020.
A contest on the theme of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the "Tell China's Stories" Contest 2020 was launched in Jiaozhou of Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, on Aug. 21, 2020.
Lianyungang saw 370 China-Europe freight trains in the first seven months of 2020, up 43.97 percent year on year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the freight trains have played an important role in helping stabilize the international logistics supply chain.
Construction of the Kunming-Vientiane Railway to link China and Laos is proceeding smoothly, according to the company in charge of the project's Chinese section.
The number of China-Europe freight trains handled by the customs of Alataw Pass, a major rail port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, went up 41.4 percent year on year, the customs said.
South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region saw 217 China-Europe freight trains in the first seven months of 2020, up more than 5 times from the same period last year, local customs said.
China's non-financial direct investments in countries along the Belt and Road (B&R) stood at US$10.27 billion in the first seven months, up by 28.9 percent year on year, data showed on Thursday.
The number of China-Europe freight trains hit record highs for five consecutive months on increasing demand for Chinese medical supplies and limited air and sea transport during the COVID-19 pandemic, the South China Morning Post has reported.
The overseas direct investment by Shenzhen, Guangdong province, ranked second among mainland cities in the first half of this year, and the contract value for foreign contracted projects is ranked at the top, with investment in Belt and Road Initiative-related economies serving as a main driving force.
China will enhance cooperation with Belt and Road countries in the fight against COVID-19 to ensure that construction of the initiative moves forward with little disruption, a spokesperson said Monday.
The customs authority at Alataw Pass, a major rail port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, has handled more than 25 million parcels worth over US$80 million since the port launched cross-border e-commerce business in January.
A 14.5-km tunnel on the Kunming-Vientiane Railway to link China with Laos has been bored through, the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (China Railway) said.
A cargo train with 45 compartments of anti-epidemic supplies left Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi province, and headed for Italy's Milan Wednesday.
A total of 238 construction personnel from China Energy Engineering Group have returned to Turkey to resume construction of the Hunutlu Thermal Power Plant in the country's southern province of Adana, sources with the company said Monday.
With the Association of Southeast Asian Nations increasingly becoming China's key trading partner and construction of the China-Laos railway seeing notable progress this year, experts predicted that more freight train services will be operated between China and Southeast Asian economies over the next decade.
An open day event to showcase daily operations, COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures, and resumption of work at South Africa's largest wind power project was held on Monday.
The China-Europe freight train services handled in Horgos port, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, hit a monthly record high and ranked first among ports across the country in July, the port customs said.