The Zhuhai port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has ushered in a peak of traffic inbound for the Chinese mainland since Thursday night, as reported by the Zhuhai border inspection station of the bridge, the world's longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing.
The traffic peak was primarily due to the Chinese traditional festival that fell on Friday known as the Double Ninth Festival, a public holiday in Hong Kong and Macao that symbolizes respect for the elderly and family reunions.
From 00:00 on Friday to 14:00 on Sunday, over 250,000 passengers and 46,000 vehicles, both inbound and outbound, passed through the Zhuhai port, according to the inspection station.
The 55-km bridge links China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the city of Zhuhai in the southern Guangdong Province, and the Macao SAR. It has brought tremendous economic opportunities and benefits to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge sees peak of traffic during holiday
China's development of green industries and the country's initiative of building a unified national market have made steady progress over the first three quarters of 2024, according to the data published by the State Taxation Administration on Sunday.
The tax data highlighted that the development of green industries has gathered pace in Jan-Sept, reflecting a resilient and diversified economic landscape.
Sales revenue in the ecological protection and environmental governance sectors surged by 11.4 percent, while the green technology services sector, including renewable energy and energy-saving solutions, witnessed a growth of approximately 20 percent. As China's broader strategy has continued emphasis on transition toward a more sustainable and innovative paradigm, sales in the clean energy sector, including solar, wind, and hydropower, maintained a rapid growth.
The transportation and logistics sector also registered faster growth, with sales revenue rising by 10 percent year on year. In particular, the growth in multimodal transport and freight forwarding services saw increases of 33.5 percent and 11.3 percent, respectively. The transportation sector in Sept alone experienced a 10.6 percent growth.
Moreover, interprovincial sales volume rose by 2.5 percent, outpacing the overall growth rate of national enterprise sales revenue by 1.1 percent, reflecting a steady progress in building a unified national market.
China on April 10, 2022 unveiled guidelines for accelerating the building of a unified national market, envisioning breaking local protection and market fragmentation and unblocking key sticking points that weigh on economic circulation, as part of a wide-ranging push for an effectively regulated, fairly competitive and fully open market across the country.
China’s green industries, unified national market initiative make steady progress: data
