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JINING, China, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

A report from GLOBAL TIMES ONLINE:

Jining, east China's Shandong province, has made significant progress in

leveraging the unique advantages of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to build a

shipping center of inland rivers in northern China, according to a press

conference held by the Information Office of Jining Municipal People's

Government on July 20.

The combined cargo throughput at ports in Jining rose 30.2 percent year on year

to nearly 28.32 million tonnes between January and June this year, during which

these ports handled 23,000 twenty-foot equivalent units of containers, up 168.9

percent from the same period last year, an official said at the press

conference.

The 14th Communist Party of China congress of Jining proposed unswervingly

implementing the strategy for making breakthroughs in modern port and shipping

logistics services, and established the modern port and shipping logistics

development headquarters of Jining, aiming to pool citywide efforts to boost

the development of the industry.

Officials disclosed at the conference that for speeding up the growth of

Jining's modern port and shipping logistics industry, the city has divided

Jining Port into eight port areas and determined various collection and

distribution channels, providing guidance and foundation for the development

and construction of Jining Port as well as efforts to effectively protect and

rationally use shoreline resources.

In an effort to promote the upgrading of the modern port and shipping logistics

industry, Jining has made scientific planning and promoted synergy between and

in-depth integration of ports and industrial fields in the hinterland.  

Besides, the city has strived to improve the handling capacity of its ports,

with efforts focused on the building of three port clusters with a capacity of

more than 100 million tonnes. It has also endeavored to accelerate the

upgrading and transformation of the Jining section of the Beijing-Hangzhou

Grand Canal, among other major projects, expanded market for logistics services

and trade, and built five major industrial parks to comprehensively facilitate

the integrated development of ports and industries.

Moreover, Jining has established a smart trading platform for logistics

services. During the first half of this year, 432,600 tonnes of goods were

traded via the platform, with the total transaction value hitting 919 million

yuan.

As the proportion of goods for trade in the total revenue of Jining Port and

Shipping Development Group Co., Ltd., operator of ports in Jining, rises to

96.96 percent, the city's ports are being transformed into ports with high

added value and playing increasingly important roles in such industries as

foreign trade and finance.

The modern port and shipping logistics development headquarters of Jining will

further stimulate the endogenous impetus of Jining's modern port and shipping

logistics industry and speed up the upgrading and comprehensive revitalization

of inland river transportation, in a bid to form a modern comprehensive

logistics paradigm, said Zhang Meng, deputy director of the office of the

headquarters.

Source GLOBAL TIMES ONLINE