The number of the vehicles entering and exiting China's Horgos Port bordering Kazakhstan surpassed 400,000 this year by Saturday, marking about 118-percent increase compared with the same period last year, according to local border inspection station.
The port located in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has held a significant status in China's trade with the central Asian countries and has been transporting a growing volume of freight in recent years.
Thousands of trucks pass through the port every day, sending wind power equipment, new energy passenger vehicles, engineering machinery, and perishable goods that must be shipped cold to countries like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
As China's largest land port in terms of vehicle export, the Horgos Port exported over 75,000 commercial vehicles in the first half of this year, increasing about 80 percent year over year.
It also streamlined its customs clearance procedures for both exports and imports, cutting them by about half and two thirds, respectively.
China's land port bordering Kazakhstan sees doubling of vehicles entering, exiting
China's first full-chain domestic solution-process polyolefin elastomers (POE) industrial device has entered trial operation in north China's Tianjin Municipality, according to China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec), world's largest oil refiner and China's top aviation fuel producer, on Sunday. Sinopec said that the facility will help reduce China's reliance on imported materials and significantly ease the import dependence of strategic emerging industries such as photovoltaics on this key material.
Often referred to as "industrial gold", POE is a high-performance material that combines the processability of plastic with the high elasticity of rubber. It is an essential component in the manufacturing of photovoltaic (PV) modules, lightweight automotive parts and high-end packaging. "POE is known as 'industrial gold.' Our device adopts the solution-process POE technology and metallocene catalyst independently developed by us. At the same time, we adopted a domestic automatic control system, ensuring that all equipment in the production chain were made in China," said Wang Xiaowei, director of the Research Institute of Sinopec Tianjin Branch.
Driven by the photovoltaic and new energy vehicle industries, China's POE consumption increased from 640,000 tons in 2021 to 1.11 million tons in 2025, with an average compound annual growth rate of 14.7 percent, making it the world's largest POE consumer market.
Due to high technical barriers, China has long relied on imports for POE, with import dependency reaching 76 percent in 2025.
"After the plant goes into operation, our products can be used in strategic emerging industries, enabling the light transmittance of photovoltaic encapsulation films to reach 93.5 percent or higher. At the same time, they contribute to automotive lightweighting. After application, the products can reduce weight by more than 15 percent compared with traditional materials. Additionally, they can be used in lithium battery separator coatings and charging pile cable insulation layers, allowing us to better meet safety standards," said Wang.
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