Guangxi city bordering Vietnam enjoys booming foreign trade volume

The foreign trade volume of Pingxiang, a city bordering Vietnam, rose 10.6 percent year-on-year to 34.2 billion yuan ($4.98 billion) in the first half of 2018 thanks to its advantageous location and a series of favorable policies.

Situated in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Pingxiang shares a land border with Vietnam, called the Friendship Pass.

Wang Fanghong, Party secretary of Pingxiang, said: "We are accelerating infrastructure construction to further connect the land border between Pingxiang and Vietnam. Since the Friendship Pass border port - one of our three dedicated freight corridors - was completed in 2017, the number of vehicles passing through the frontier increased from 800 to 1,200 per day."