From July 2 to 6, Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Kazakhstan's capital city Astana, and pay state visits to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan at the invitation of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of the Republic of Kazakhstan and President Emomali Rahmon of the Republic of Tajikistan, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying announced on Sunday.
Xi to attend SCO summit, pay state visits to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
Xi to attend SCO summit, pay state visits to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
Cargo throughput and ship arrivals at China's coastal and inland river ports registered robust growth in the first half of this year, data from the Ministry of Transport shows on Tuesday.
A total of 15,211,700 vessels passed through ports from January to June, up 14.35 percent compared with the same period last year.
The first six months of the year also witnessed cargo throughput growing 4.85 percent to 9.184 billion tonnes.
The robust growth, a sign of the country's thriving maritime trade, is the result of dual circulations, a new economic development paradigm featuring the reinforcement of the domestic and overseas markets.
The past decade has witnessed the application of China's self-developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the country's waterways. The number of coastal navigation marks in the country has grown 68.8 percent to 20,600 over the past ten years, all of which have been integrated into the BDS.
The country has so far built a coastal BeiDou ground-based augmentation system, consisting of 23 BeiDou differential stations and 75 continuously operating reference stations, representing the world's largest maritime safety system.
Cargo throughput at coastal ports, inland river ports reaches 9.184 bln tons
