An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 19, 2025 shows a cargo ship at Qingdao Port in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)
BEIJING, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — China has added and expanded 40 ports of entry since the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), bringing the country’s total ports of entry to 311, said Sun Meijun, head of the General Administration of Customs, at a press conference on Monday.
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance,
a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went
back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016,
working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…