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Zhejiang foreign trade grows robustly

Zhejiang province saw foreign trade volume rise 8.4 percent year-on-year to 1.98 trillion yuan ($278 billion) in the first five months of 2023, according to Hangzhou Customs authorities. Exports from the East China province totaled 1.46 trillion yuan, up 8.8 percent year-on-year, while imports totaled 518.16 billion yuan, up 7.4 percent.

HSR section work progressing smoothly

The Wuhan-Yichang section of the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu High-speed Railway, which links a number of city clusters along the Yangtze River and directly benefits some 600 million people, is showing good progress. A 221.7-meter-long continuous beam traversing the Minle Canal, built by China Railway No 4 Engineering Group Co Ltd, has been completed using a cantilever intelligent bridge building machine, raising work efficiency by over 20 percent. The Wuhan-Yichang section is 315.571 kilometers long, allowing trains to run at 350 kilometers an hour.

China Daily - Xinhua