China’s Commerce Ministry announces initiatives to stabilize foreign trade in 2025

China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on Wednesday announced a set of initiatives to stabilize foreign trade in 2025, focusing on digitalization, green trade, and expansion of global business platforms amid growing external risks and challenges.
At a press briefing in Beijing, MOFCOM officials outlined plans to accelerate the development of new foreign trade drivers by embracing digitalization. This includes expanding the use of electronic trade documents and encouraging digitalization of the entire trade chain, aiming to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
Green trade will also be a priority, with efforts to help foreign trade enterprises adopt sustainable, low-carbon practices. Steps will be taken to promote the construction of smart logistics platforms overseas, as well as support cross-border e-commerce trade fairs and matchmaking events in regions with suitable infrastructure, thereby creating more opportunities for businesses to showcase products and for matchmaking between supply and demand, according to the officials.
“We will continue to compile and publish the ‘Country Trade Guide’ and other foreign trade promotion documentations, strengthening information exchange between Chinese and international businesses. We will actively expand the global network of high-standard free trade zones, establish new trade facilitation working groups on the basis of consultation, and pragmatically address the bottlenecks and challenges in bilateral trade to create more business opportunities,” said Meng Yue, director of the Foreign Trade Department at the Ministry of Commerce, at the press briefing.
In addition, China will leverage major trade platforms such as the China International Import Expo and the Canton Fair to further market opening, boost imports, and foster innovation in international trade. These efforts are designed to transform China’s vast market into a big opportunity for the world, according to the officials.
China’s Commerce Ministry announces initiatives to stabilize foreign trade in 2025
China’s Commerce Ministry announces initiatives to stabilize foreign trade in 2025
China on Friday finished the construction of the main structure of a bridge in its southwestern Guizhou Province, which is set to become the world’s tallest bridge.
The last steel girder weighing about 215 tonnes was precisely hoisted into place on Friday afternoon, connecting sections of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge currently under construction.
A project of Guizhou Transportation Investment Group Co., Ltd., the suspension bridge has a vertical height of 625 meters from the bridge deck down to the river surface — roughly twice the height of the Eiffel Tower.
The 2,890-meter bridge, with a span of 1,420 meters, is also the world’s largest span bridge to be built in a mountainous area.
Construction of the bridge began in 2022 and is scheduled to open to traffic in 2025.
China completes main structure of world’s tallest bridge
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