A new foreign trade shipping route to the Port of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam was added to Xiamen Port in Xiamen, Fujian province, Xiamen Daily reported on May 10.
On May 7, Xiamen customs issued a certificate of origin under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement for a batch of aluminum easy-open lids that will be exported to Myanmar.
Zhang Quan, director general of Xiamen foreign affairs office, on April 27 met with Kono Yasuhisa – new head of the Xiamen branch of Tokyo-headquartered All Nippon Airways Co Ltd – in Xiamen city, in East China's Fujian province.
Xiamen in East China's Fujian province generated 178.7 billion yuan ($27.29 billion) in GDP in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 7.5 percent year-on-year.
The actual use of foreign investment in Xiamen, Fujian province, was 10.85 billion yuan ($1.68 billion) in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 40.9 percent year-on-year, and accounted for 56.9 percent of the province's total.
April 21 marked the seventh anniversary of the founding of the Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Statistics show that Xiamen in Fujian province boasted foreign trade import and export volume worth 204.92 billion yuan ($32.12 billion) in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 9.7 percent year-on-year.
