China building up logistics Capacity for Trade with ASEAN

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China building up logistics Capacity for Trade with ASEAN

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China is building modern logistics platforms in its southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Yunnan province as part of its efforts to upgrade harbors, roads, railways and airports to meet the growing demands of the China-Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Area (ASEAN FTA) building process.

At a high-level symposium on the China-ASEAN FTA, Vice-Chairman Gao Hucheng of the autonomous region, said that Guangxi, which is equipped with seaports, railways, highways, rivers, air routes andother infrastructure, has become the gateway for trade with ASEAN.

A couple of new infrastructure projects, which will provide better access to borders and coastlines, are currently underway, he said.

Guangxi's outlet to the sea has not only provided China's interior with fast outbound access but also provide ASEAN nations with a direct access to China's hinterland, said Wang Yiming, vice president of the Macro-Economics Research Institute of the State Development Planning Commission.

A freeway connecting Nanning, Guangxi's capital city, and Youyiguan (or Friendship Pass), China's border trade point, is currently being built to cut the travel time from Nanning to the Vietnamese capital by a half.

This is just one of the numerous expressways being built in the region. Expressways in Guangxi stretch more than 820 km, linking three harbors, three airports and six railways. By the end of thisyear, more than 1,000 km expressway will be open to traffic.

In Fangcheng harbor on Beibu Bay, the eleventh 10,000-ton dock is under way, and in Qinzhou harbor, the sea-route is being improved and upgraded.

By the year 2010, the total annual handling (throughput) capacity of Guangxi's harbors would top 50 million tons, said Zhang Yuanxin, deputy director of the Guangxi Development Planning Committee.

Over the past decade, said Zhang, Guangxi has invested some 120billion yuan (about 14.5 billion US dollars) in highways, railways,seaports and river-port construction.

In neighboring Yunnan province, highway networks linking borders have been completed, 10 commercial airports been built and103 international and domestic air-routes opened to traffic, said Wu Wei, an official with the Yunnan Provincial Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Department.

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