The Yiwu China Commodities City, the world's largest wholesale market, launched its first overseas branch - Yiwu Market - in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, on June 30.
African scholars spoke highly of the GDI.
The Global Times is publishing a series of stories, helping the world understand how the initiative facilitates connectivity and foster growth. One of the typical examples includes the opening of China-Europe freight train.
Sea-railway intermodal trains have played an important role in meeting demand for import and export transportation for cities in Zheijang province such as Jinhua amid the latest COVID-19 outbreak.
Yiwu in East China's Zhejiang province will work with Pakistan's bustling port city of Karachi to further promote economic exchange and cooperation between the two cities.
A total of 370 Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe freight trains departed from Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province in the first three months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 10.1 percent, according to local customs.
Yiwu in East China's Zhejiang province launched a new international shipping method using TIR trucks on March 30.
The first China-Laos freight train in 2022 loaded with 70 TEUs of exports from Zhejiang set off from Jinhua South Railway Station in Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang province, for Vientiane, capital of Laos, on Jan 16.
