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

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(221201) -- GUIYANG, Dec. 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Honeysuckles are planted on the hillsides in Shichao Town, Wuchuan County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Nov. 16, 2022. TO GO WITH "Across China: Deep mountain township grows its way out of poverty" (Xinhua/Li Jingya)

CHINA-GUIZHOU-WUCHUAN-MOUNTAIN-INCOME-GENERATING PLANTS (CN)

CHINA-GUIZHOU-WUCHUAN-MOUNTAIN-INCOME-GENERATING PLANTS (CN)

(221201) -- GUIYANG, Dec. 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Greenhouses for cherry tree plantation are pictured in Shichao Town, Wuchuan County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Nov. 17, 2022. TO GO WITH "Across China: Deep mountain township grows its way out of poverty" (Xinhua/Li Jingya)