Guangdong and Guangxi Exit-Entry Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus signed a memorandum to facilitate trade activities in the Beibu Gulf Zone - where Zhanjiang city is situated - with countries along the Belt and Road.
Zhanjiang is experiencing a golden era full of challenges and development opportunities in establishing itself as a "One Belt and One Road" pivot city, said Wang Zhongbing, mayor of the city in South China's Guangdong province.
"Zhanjiang will seize the historical opportunity and take responsibility as the city has been considered one of the strategic pivots in implementing China's belt and road initiative," Liu Xiaohua, party secretary of Zhanjiang, said.
Zhanjiang will forge six pivots to be fully integrated into the Belt and Road Initiative as a hub port.
Xuwen county in Zhanjiang, which is rich in cultural relics of the Han Dynasty, is one of the ports of origin in the Han Dynasty.
Zhanjiang was listed as one of the 15 key pivot cities in China’s “Belt and Road” initiatives, according to a document jointly issued by three central ministries.
A Zhanjiang delegation led by Mayor Wang Zhongbing paid a visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, from June 24 to 29.
Zhanjiang has got ready for integrating into the Belt and Road Innitiative and building a strategic pivot city along the 21st Maritime Silk Road，Zhanjiang mayor Wang Zhongbing said.
Zhanjiang Port will look beyond the Zhanjiang Bay to forge a port cluster that can serve as an international shipping hub in South China Sea.
Zhanjiang will take full advantage of its geographical superiority as a coastal city and vigorously develop port industries to rise again as a pivotal city on the 21 Century Marine Silk Road.
The southern “maritime valley” has been put under the spotlight during Zhanjiang’s two sessions in 2015.
Zhanjiang foreign trade volume increased 13.4 percent year-on-year to 6.3 billion dollars in 2014.
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 130349 
