China's Qingdao launches new freight train to Moscow

STORY: China's Qingdao launches new freight train to Moscow SHOOTING TIME: April 2, 2024 DATELINE: April 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: JINAN, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the freight train's departure STORYLINE: A new freight train departed from China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in China's Qingdao for the Russian capital Moscow on Tuesday. The train carried refrigerators, washing machines and other goods. It's the first China-Europe freight train departing from the SCODA in Qingdao to Moscow via the northern Chinese railway port of Tongjiang. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): SU JITONG, Manager of operations department, SCODA "With the advantages of safe and highly efficient transportation, the China-Europe freight train can effectively help reduce our logistics costs, while enhancing the international competitiveness of exported goods." Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Jinan, China. (XHTV)

Xinhua Headlines: China developing SCO demonstration area into new Belt and Road cooperation platform

Xinhua Headlines: China developing SCO demonstration area into new Belt and Road cooperation platform

(231011) -- QINGDAO, Oct. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on May 31, 2023 shows the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)

Xinhua Headlines: China developing SCO demonstration area into new Belt and Road cooperation platform

Xinhua Headlines: China developing SCO demonstration area into new Belt and Road cooperation platform

(231011) -- QINGDAO, Oct. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on May 22, 2023 shows the Qingdao SCODA Pearl International Expo Center in the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)

Xinhua Headlines: China developing SCO demonstration area into new Belt and Road cooperation platform

Xinhua Headlines: China developing SCO demonstration area into new Belt and Road cooperation platform

(231011) -- QINGDAO, Oct. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Customs staff inspect an international freight train at a multimodal transport center in the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, June 1, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)

Xinhua Headlines: China developing SCO demonstration area into new Belt and Road cooperation platform

Xinhua Headlines: China developing SCO demonstration area into new Belt and Road cooperation platform

(231011) -- QINGDAO, Oct. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on June 1, 2023 shows a multimodal transport center in the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)

China building SCO demonstration area into new Belt and Road cooperation platform

STORY: China building SCO demonstration area into new Belt and Road cooperation platform DATELINE: Oct. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:00 LOCATION: QINGDAO, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the SCO demonstration area 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHOU SHICHAO, Cross-border e-commerce supervision department, Jiaozhou Customs, Qingdao 3. various of freight trains 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Russian): SERGEY MANASSARIAN, Armenian Ambassador to China 5. various of the SCO demonstration area STORYLINE: The China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in the eastern Chinese coastal city of Qingdao has become a new promising platform for Belt and Road cooperation. The demonstration area was proposed to be built in June 2018. It has since grown into an important link in the international industrial, supply and trade chains, boosting the economic and trade cooperation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members. Apart from sea, air, and road transport, the demonstration area operat

5 years on, SCO demonstration area offers opportunities for win-win cooperation

STORY: 5 years on, SCO demonstration area offers opportunities for win-win cooperation DATELINE: July 2, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:57 LOCATION: QINGDAO, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the demonstration area 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Russian): SERGEY MANASSARIAN, Armenian ambassador to China 3. various of freight trains 4. various of trading platforms 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LIU YU, Alibaba Group STORYLINE: Five years on, the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in the eastern Chinese coastal city of Qingdao has grown into a new platform for international cooperation. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) demonstration area has sped up building a massive logistics passage to facilitate multilateral economic and trade cooperation and safeguard the stability of the industrial and supply chains in the region. SOUNDBITE 1 (Russian): SERGEY MANASSARIAN, Armenian ambassador to China "We very much look forward to concrete cooperation outcomes, especially as strengt