Engineers fully connected the Puzhai Tunnel of the China-Vietnam Smart Port: Puzhai-Tan Thanh Corridor on Friday night, marking a significant milestone in the construction of this cross-border trade facilitation project in south China's Guangxi.
Linking two major border crossings in China and Vietnam, the Puzhai-Tan Thanh Corridor is one of the two pilot projects under the China-Vietnam Smart Port scheme.
The smart port initiative, a collaboration between China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Vietnam's Lang Son Province, is part of both countries' broader efforts to enhance bilateral trade and streamline border processes. It aims to "ensure smooth flow across border ports, accelerate the upgrading and opening of ports, improve port infrastructure connectivity, promote smart port cooperation, and accelerate the integration of industrial and supply chains, according to local authorities.
Located northwest of the Puzhai Cargo Supervision Center, the Puzhai-Tan Thanh project spans nearly 120, 000 square meters, with an estimated investment of around 760 million yuan (about 105 million U.S. dollars).
The corridor is expected to strengthen trade ties between China and Vietnam while providing a significant economic boost to the border regions.
China-Vietnam smart port project reaches key milestone
China's development has never been a "threat" to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Friday.
Some Western media and think tanks are peddling so-called "China Shock 2.0," saying that "China is achieving fast development in high-tech sectors such as renewable energy and AI and relies on foreign markets to absorb its overcapacity, thus reducing the market share of developed countries and sending more serious shock waves to the global economy compared with the era of traditional manufacture industry," while there are foreign commentators saying that the "China Shock 2.0" argument ignores the genuine innovation occurring within the Chinese industrial ecosystem and that Chinese export is the exact booster of the global economy that is needed in the turbulent period and more indispensable than ever.
Commenting on that, Lin said: "From the world's factory to the world's market and innovation powerhouse, China's development is achieved through strong performance driven by innovation and brings tangible cooperation opportunities and space to the world. High-quality Chinese products represented by the 'old three' of textiles, furniture and home appliances have stabilized the global industrial and supply chain, lowered the living cost of global consumers and eased the inflationary pressure worldwide. China's green production capacity represented by the 'new three' of electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels has bridged the gap between supply and demand in global green development and bolstered the global energy transition and low-carbon development. Moreover, China's high-tech products represented by the 'new new three' of robots, AI and innovative drugs have broken high-tech barriers and monopoly and enabled people in more countries to access affordable new technologies," said the spokesman.
"Openness and cooperation bring about progress and win-win result. China's development has never been a 'threat' to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries. What really creates 'shocks' to the world has never been the innovation of Chinese companies and efficiency of Chinese industrial capacity, but protectionist moves of setting up barriers, decoupling and severing industrial and supply chains. China will stay committed to high-standard opening up, defend the multilateral trading system and provide more certainty and new impetus to the world economy with its own steady development," said Lin.
China's development never a threat: FM spokesman
