Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with a delegation of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, in Beijing on Monday.
Han noted that the economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan has a sound foundation, large space and strong complementarity, calling on the two sides to tap the potential of cooperation and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results at a higher level.
China's door to the outside world will open even wider, Han said, expressing the hope that the Keizai Doyukai will give full play to its own advantages and encourage Japanese companies to have a comprehensive and accurate understanding of China and seize China's development opportunities.
Takeshi Niinami, chairperson of the Keizai Doyukai, highly appreciated China's economic and social development achievements, and said that his association is willing to continue to play a role as a bridge in promoting Japanese business circles to further explore the China market and in further deepening mutually beneficial cooperation.
Chinese vice president meets with Japanese business delegation
Chinese vice president meets with Japanese business delegation
The Xiamen-Kinmen Bridge (Xiamen section) entered a new phase of marine construction on Monday morning, marked by the completion of the east tower's piling work of the Liuwudian Channel Bridge, a pivotal component of the project, in Xiamen of Fujian Province in east China.
The Xiamen-Kinmen Bridge (Xiamen section) spans 17.34 km and is designed to link the Xiamen island with the Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport that is currently under construction. The Liuwudian Channel Bridge is the province's first offshore suspension bridge and largest span bridge with a total length of 1,948 meters and a main span of 928 meters in length.
The pile foundation of the east bridge tower was completed on Monday after four months of work, while that of the west one is expected to finish at the end of this month.
Confronted with complex geological conditions and the challenge of transporting materials to the offshore construction site, the team newly built a large-scale mixing station and employed six rotary drilling rigs which operated around the clock.
With a total investment of 37.27 billion yuan (about 5.12 billion U.S. dollars), the Xiamen-Kinmen Bridge (Xiamen section) will become the most efficient connection between the Xiamen island and the Xiang'an Airport. Once completed, it will ease traffic congestion and greatly enhance transport efficiency in the region.
The Xiamen-Kinmen Bridge (Xiamen section) started construction in October 2023, and is expected to be completed simultaneously with the Xiang'an Airport Expressway in 2026.
Kinmen is an important hub for interaction across the Taiwan Strait. Growing trade and commercial links between Kinmen and Xiamen have made the building of the bridge a common desire of many people in the region.
Xiamen-Kinmen Bridge enters marine construction stage
