Chinese President Xi Jinping left Serbia on Wednesday under the escort of two fighter jets sent by the Serbian Air Force after wrapping up a state visit to the country.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and other dignitaries gathered at the airport in Belgrade to bid farewell to Xi as he departed for the last stop of his European tour in Budapest, Hungary.
The Chinese president arrived in Serbia on Tuesday evening for a state visit at the invitation of Vucic.
During his trip, Xi held talks with his Serbian counterpart and signed a joint statement on the building of a China-Serbia community with a shared future in the new era, making Serbia the first European country to build such a community with China.
Serbia is the second leg of Xi's three-nation European tour from May 5 to 10, which also includes France and Hungary.
Xi leaves Serbia, escorted by two Serbian fighter jets
The Qingdao Port in east China's Shandong Province -- one of the most comprehensive ports in the world and an important hub for international trade and transportation in the West Pacific -- saw the opening of its first new shipping route to Mexico on Sunday, increasing the number of its international shipping routes opened so far this year to a total of five.
The route to Mexico operates weekly with eight cargo ships, each with a capacity of over 4,000 Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs). The route reaches three major ports on the west coast of Mexico, including Ensenada Port, in just 20 days. Besides the route to Mexico, Qingdao Port has also opened four other international container shipping routes including those leading to East America, Europe and Southeast Asia.
The container throughput of Qingdao Port in the first quarter of this year went up 11.3 percent year on year.
China-Mexico new container shipping route opens
