Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 10th ministerial meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum and deliver a keynote speech in Beijing on Thursday.
Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese foreign minister, will co-chair the meeting with Mohamed Salem Ould Merzouk, Mauritania's minister of foreign affairs, cooperation and Mauritanians abroad.
Foreign ministers or representatives of the Arab states and secretary general of the League of Arab States will attend the meeting.
The China-Arab States Cooperation Forum is a formal dialogue initiative between China and the Arab League established in 2004. It serves as the primary multilateral coordination mechanism between China and the Arab states.
Xi to attend opening ceremony of 10th ministerial meeting of China-Arab States Cooperation Forum
Xi to attend opening ceremony of 10th ministerial meeting of China-Arab States Cooperation Forum
The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan road-rail intermodal transport service had handled a total of 100 trains this year as of Friday, marking a regular and expanded operation of the intermodal transport service, according to the China Railway Urumqi Bureau Group Co., Ltd. in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Since the beginning of July, the number of cargo trains arriving in Xinjiang's Kashgar City for further transit has increased to an average of two per day.
"The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan road-rail intermodal transport system capitalizes on Kashgar's favorable location, cutting transit time by around five days compared to other routes and reducing costs by nearly 30 percent," said Fang Zijun, a business manager at Kashgar inland port multimodal transport company.
In March, Kashgar Customs implemented a new clearance model where goods are inspected at the point of origin, allowing them to be proceeded directly to their destination without additional customs checks at the border. This change has reduced customs processing time from three to five days to just six to eight hours, significantly enhancing the efficiency of the multimodal transport service.
In the past five years, Kashgar has handled trains from various regions across China such as south China's Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), north China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, southwest China's Sichuan Province and east China's Jiangsu Province.
These trains carried over 300 types of goods, ranging from new energy vehicles to machinery components, opening up a new international trade channel that stretches to Central and West Asia, as well as Europe.
China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan road-rail transport system achieves milestone with regular, expanded operations
