-Xinhua Silk Road: China-SCO International Logistics Roundtable 2023 held in Lianyungang to deepen interconnectivity among SCO countries

BEIJING, Aug. 18, 2023/PRNewswire/ -- The 2023 China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) International Logistics Roundtable kicked off on Wednesday in Lianyungang, a port city in east China's Jiangsu province.

With the theme "Strengthening Cooperation Among SCO Countries, Joint Construction of the New Eurasian Land and Sea Transportation Corridor", the three-day round-table conference, jointly hosted by the Lianyungang Municipal People's Government and the Secretariat of the SCO, aims to further deepen logistics and industrial connection and foster new growth points of cooperation between the SCO countries.

At the conference, Sohail Khan, Deputy Secretary General of the SCO, Fang Wei, Vice Governor of Jiangsu Province, and Ma Shiguang, Lianyungang Party chief, respectively delivered speeches.

Officials from SCO member and observer countries, and representatives of relevant logistics alliances and institutions attended the event and reached consensus on cooperation in multiple fields, such as transportation, logistics, foreign trade and digital economy.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. As a strong foothold of Belt and Road cooperation and the important node city in the New Eurasian Land Bridge economic corridor, Lianyungang assumes the role of a two-way opening window and rail-sea transportation hub.

In recent years, Lianyungang has actively promoted the construction of benchmarking demonstration projects under the Belt and Road Initiative, such as the Lianyungang China-Kazakhstan Logistics Cooperation Base and the SCO International Logistics Park. (Lianyungang), all of which have yielded fruitful results.

It was learned that the SCO International Logistics Park (Lianyungang) opened its first China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan route in October last year, embarking on a new journey to link China's trade with other SCO members. As of July of this year, a total of 1,182 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo were transported after the park route was launched.

Lianyungang has successfully held two sessions of the SCO International Round Table in 2019 and 2021, making the event an important exchange platform between Lianyungang and SCO members.

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