Xiamen's value of foreign trade with four BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa reached 33 billion yuan ($4.95 billion) in 2016. In terms of exports, Xiamen's traditional export products include garments, shoes, LCD screens, light equipments and sports equipments. Its import products include iron ore, stone materials, food, sawn timber, paper pulp and zircon.
Chinese and Russian staff members of the Wangji Group work together in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province on Aug 18, 2017. The Wangji Group offers a platform for selling Chinese products to Russia and Russian language speaking countries. [Photo by Jiang Kehong/Xinhua]
China has extended its 240-hour visa-free transit policy and Hainan's 30-day visa-free entry policy to citizens of Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam, the National Immigration Administration said on Aug 20.
