BRICS Summit 'rare opportunity' to address global issues: Chinese diplomat

The 16th BRICS Summit from Tuesday to Thursday in Russia's Kazan offers a rare opportunity to seek solutions to global issues against the backdrop of the current international situation, said Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui.

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at the Kazan International Airport on Tuesday to attend the summit in the city at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Speaking to a China Media Group (CMG) reporter at the airport ahead of Xi's arrival, Zhang highlighted the significance of the summit in tackling international issues and driving the BRICS cooperative mechanism forward.

"President Xi's BRICS Summit trip is first of all aimed at promoting cooperation among BRICS countries and further advancing the development of this cooperative mechanism. This is a rare opportunity to find solutions to global issues such as security and development, and to address subjects regarding further cooperation among BRICS countries, especially under the current circumstances," said the Chinese ambassador.

"Also, I believe other countries' leaders are looking forward to hearing China's voice and President Xi's speech through this platform, and hope that China can put forward more plans for BRICS' development," he added.

BRICS Summit 'rare opportunity' to address global issues: Chinese diplomat

Yantai Port in eastern China's Shandong Province has witnessed a small peak in the shipment of commercial vehicles in the start of the new year.

Since Jan 1, the automobile ro-ro (roll-on/roll-off) terminal of the port has received at least four ro-ro ships and dispatched over 10,000 commercial vehicles.

"For the current large volume of commercial vehicle loading and unloading operations, we improved the efficiency of vehicle passage based on factors like the number of vessels and berthing time. With the joint efforts of all sides, a new high of 320 vehicles per hour in average operational efficiency has been established," said Gu Feng, deputy director of the production dispatching center at Yantai Port Ro-Ro Logistics Co. Ltd.

In 2024, the shipment volume of commercial vehicles from Yantai Port reached 737,000 units, among which the volume of international transshipment exceeded 330,000 units, up 22 percent year on year, statistics showed.

As a logistics base and a logistics hub for commercial vehicles in Shandong and North China, Yantai Port has already developed a number of ro-ro shipping routes that cover over 30 countries and regions in Europe, America, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

East China port sees swelling auto exports in new year