Sun-powered synergy: Samarkand solar plant bolsters China-Uzbekistan green ties
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.
Jinhua City in east China's Zhejiang Province has handled 2,500 China-Europe freight train trips since the service started in August 2017, local authorities said.
Statistics from China's Ministry of Commerce indicate that, up to now, China's cumulative investment in the South Asian region has reached nearly 15 billion U.S. dollars. Completed project contract turnover has exceeded 200 billion U.S. dollars.
The projects proposed by China under its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have brought tangible benefits to the countries and peoples of Europe and helped debunk the so-called "decoupling and de-risking" fallacies, a Swedish expert told Xinhua in a recent interview.
"The China-Laos Railway is expected to serve as a bridge to connect China and Laos, and the grand gathering of the China-South Asia Expo will see more fruitful results," Muhammad Fazle Rabby from Bangladesh said.
The Finnish enterprise Nurminen Logistics had already recognized China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a significant opportunity for collaboration back in 2015 when it decided to participate in the initiative, said Olli Pohjanvirta, the company's chief executive officer.
Since its commercial operation in July 2018, the San Lorenzo Water Supply Project, located in Brazil's municipality of Vargem Grande Paulista, has provided a safe and reliable clean water supply for nearly 2 million residents in seven cities in the region.
Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, registered surging import and export cargo volume in the first seven months this year, said local customs.
Launched in 2013, CPEC, the flagship project of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, is a corridor linking the Gwadar port in southwestern Pakistan with Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which highlights energy, transport and industrial cooperation.
A forum focusing on summarizing and enhancing the ecological, scientific, and technological cooperation between China and countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt will be held from Sept. 18 to 19 in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Track-laying for a new high-speed train linking the China-Vietnam border commenced on Tuesday in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
A major China-Europe freight train route linking Yiwu, known as "the world's supermarket" in east China's Zhejiang Province, and Europe's largest small-commodity distribution center in Madrid, Spain, has steadily developed since its launch.
The number of China-Europe freight trains passing Horgos Port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region since 2016 has exceeded 30,000, local authorities said Thursday.
On the Nam Tha River in Laos' northern Bokeo province, the Nam Tha 1 hydropower plant is expected to see its annual generation to reach 720 GWh while providing green power to more than 2 million people in the border regions of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos as well as helping spur economic development in the remote hilly regions.
The coastal city of Xiamen in east China's Fujian Province had handled over 100,000 TEUs of goods by China-Europe freight trains as of Wednesday, local authorities said.
The border port of Erenhot in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has seen a rising number of China-Europe freight trains this year, according to local customs.
A decade after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative to the world, beneficiaries and partners in the United Arab Emirates are hailing the global infrastructure development program for boosting the Arab nation's economic diversification plans.
Horgos Port in Xinjiang sees more domestically-made automobiles export
Sri Lanka's geographical location enables it to provide quick and efficient global and regional connectivity. More than 60,000 ships ply the route served by Sri Lanka annually, carrying two-thirds of the world's oil and half of the global container traffic.
Over six years of rapid growth, the land-sea corridor program has enabled western Chinese provinces and regions to form close links with global markets, especially in ASEAN member nations, sending their cargo to 393 ports across 119 countries.
China has always contributed to amplifying the voice of developing countries and protecting their interests, and never shirked its international responsibilities as being the largest developing nation in the world, a Pakistani expert said.
Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has launched 22 China-Europe freight trains this year, delivering 2,420 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) of goods, up by 214 percent and 261 percent respectively compared with last year.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has emerged as a corridor of opportunity, traversing vast terrains to connect the warm waters of the Arabian Sea with the rich landscapes of China's western regions, a government official said Monday.
The China-Laos Railway that started cross-border passenger services in April had transported 41,735 passengers as of Saturday, when it marked the 100th day of operation.