The land port of Erenhot, the largest on the China-Mongolia border, has registered record-high numbers in inbound and outbound travelers, local authorities said Saturday.
As of 18:00 Saturday, the land port had handled 2.596 million personnel entries and exits and some 693,000 vehicles, up 9.2 and 12.6 percent year on year, respectively, according to the port's entry-exit border inspection station.
This year, travelers from more than 70 countries and regions passed through this key transportation hub, with a peak of nearly 14,000 trips in a single day.
China-Mongolia border port handles record number of international travelers
China and the United States should look to maintain regular communication and upgrade the frequency of their dialogues in order to manage competition and respect their differences while making cooperation a top priority, said a Chinese scholar.
In a meeting closely watched by the world, Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday agreed on a new vision of building a constructive bilateral relationship of strategic stability.
It came amid Trump's three-day state visit to China at the invitation of Xi, which marked the first such U.S. presidential visit in nine years.
Yang Yue, deputy director of the Institute of Asian Studies of China Foreign Affairs University, shared her assessment of the new vision outlined by the two sides in an interview with the China Global Television Network (CGTN).
"This new positioning, I think, is a breakthrough for this summit. It normalizes managed competition, while prioritizing cooperation," Yang said.
Calling for greater bilateral cooperation in public health, climate, counter narcotics, and other fields, the professor stressed the need for China and the U.S. to establish clear guardrails for competition and carry out more frequent dialogue to reduce crisis risks.
"Not all competition is bad. But both sides need explicit red lines and no-go zones. For example, [they can] compete in technology, but never weaponize supply chains for essential medicines. Differences are permanent, that's fine. And the key is predictable crisis communication. Like, update hotlines to mandatory weekly or monthly strategic dialogues," she said.
Regarding peace, Yang called on the two countries to honor their commitments -- particularly on the one-China principle -- with concrete actions on a daily basis.
"Peace cannot be fragile. For example, on the Taiwan question, I think the maximum common denominator is stability. And durable peace requires daily discipline, and not just summit statements," Yang said.
Trump, who departed Beijing on Friday, brought along a high-level delegation of more than a dozen American business leaders from key sectors including technology, finance, aviation, and agriculture.
Cooperation should outweigh competition in China-US ties: scholar
