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Country tops global ODI ranking in 2020

China's outbound direct investment rose 12.3 percent year-on-year to $153.7 billion in 2020, ranking it first in the world. The country's influence in global foreign direct investment continued to grow, with its ODI flow accounting for 20.2 percent of the world's total in 2020, a report jointly released by China's Ministry of Commerce, the National Bureau of Statistics and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said.

New port opens on Yangtze River

A 10,000-metric-ton port, the first of its kind in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, began operations on Wednesday. Located in Zhongxian county, Chongqing municipality, the port has 14 berths with an annual throughput of 25 million tons.

Xinhua