The city's foreign trade totaled 524.01 billion yuan ($72.16 billion) from January to July, an increase of 6.5 percent year-on-year.

Since its inception in December 2020, the BRICS PartNIR Innovation Center in Xiamen, Fujian province has signed agreements on 77 BRICS cooperation projects with an investment of 38.5 billion yuan ($5.29 billion).

The first Business Environment Forum that is part of the 23rd China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) will take place on Sept 8 in Xiamen, East China's Fujian province.

The Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone, or Xiamen FTZ, is making efforts to facilitate cross-border trade.

Brazil, Serbia, and Qatar will be the guests of honor for the upcoming fair this year, marking the highest number of guest countries in a single edition.

Since it started operating on Aug 16, 2015, the China-Europe (Xiamen) Railway Express has transported a total of 105,000 TEUs of goods to 30 cities in 12 countries including Poland, Hungary, Germany and Russia.

Xiamen in Fujian province regards the exhibition industry as a vital platform for building a modern market system and an open economic system and is striving to boost the sector with internationalism, professionalism and market-oriented reform.

After a 108-day fishing moratorium, fishermen in Xiamen, East China's Fujian province, began setting sail again on Aug 16.