During the National Two Sessions in 2024, the Chongqing delegation submitted a proposal for the whole delegation, calling on the state to support the acceleration of the construction of the Chongqing Logistics Hub Economic Zone. The article points out that Chongqing, as the first city in the country with the "five-type" national logistics hub of port type, dry port type, airport type, production service type, and business service type, has formed a strong channel logistics advantage and industrial foundation. The proposal aims to promote the virtuous circle of "channel belt logistics, logistics belt economy and trade, economic and trade belt industry" by strengthening the traction role of new land and sea channels in the western region, building "multi-country and multi-park" international industrial cooperation projects, and carrying out financial reform and institutional opening pilot projects, so as to build Chongqing into a logistics hub economic zone with national influence and serve the national inland opening strategy.

In 2025, China's total primary energy production exceeded 5 billion tons of standard coal for the first time, reaching 5.13 billion tons, setting the best effect of energy supply during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. Non-fossil energy power generation continues to grow rapidly, and its new power generation has accounted for 112.1 per cent of the new electricity consumption of the whole society, becoming the main body of new power generation, while thermal power generation has declined for the first time in a decade. Coal production has grown steadily, crude oil production has maintained a steady increase, natural gas production has increased for nine consecutive years, and the degree of external dependence has dropped to the lowest level in the "14th Five-Year Plan", indicating that China's energy structure has continued to be optimized and the low-carbon transformation has accelerated.

On March 2, 2024, Chinese Minister of Transport Liu Wei met with Russian Minister of Transport Nikigin in Beijing. The two sides exchanged in-depth views on deepening Sino-Russian cooperation in the field of transportation, and agreed to further promote international road transportation, maritime river transportation, railways, civil aviation, port customs clearance facilitation, river-sea combined transportation, autonomous driving technology and low-altitude on the basis of existing cooperation results. Practical cooperation in economic and other fields will jointly expand new space for cooperation and implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state. The Russian Ambassador to China and officials from relevant Chinese ministries and commissions attended the meeting.

Qixia District, Nanjing City held a regional shipping and logistics center promotion meeting, and released two plans: "Ten Tackling Actions to Build a Regional Shipping and Logistics Center" and "Ten Escort Actions for Port Units in the District to Support the High-quality Development of Port and Shipping Enterprises. The crucial action focuses on upgrading the energy level of the hub and upgrading the port industry, and plans to invest more than 30 billion yuan within three years. The escort operation was jointly launched by 10 port units to optimize the navigation efficiency and data sharing of the waterway. The meeting simultaneously signed a number of strategic cooperation to promote the transformation of the port into an industrial supply chain service hub, and strengthen the logistics connection between the Yangtze River Delta and the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

The Ministry of Transport held a party group meeting and a party building work leading group meeting to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on establishing and practicing the correct concept of political achievements, and to study and deploy the systematic study and education work of the Ministry. The meeting stressed the need to meticulously organize and carry out study and education, guide party members and cadres to persist in seeking truth from facts, benefit the people, prevent and correct deviations in the concept of political achievements, and create achievements that can stand the test through practical work, so as to provide a guarantee for speeding up the construction of a strong transportation country. The meeting reviewed the implementation plan and made specific arrangements for study and discussion, investigation of problems, rectification and rectification.

In January 2026, the cargo throughput of Beihai Port reached 4.5259 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 12.1 percent. Among them, the performance of foreign trade container business was particularly prominent, with the total import and export volume reaching 3554 million TEUs, a year-on-year surge of 62.89 percent. This is due to the continuous release of foreign trade container functions of berth 5 in Beimu operation area of Tieshan Port, the opening of new berths in Shitou port operation area and the further promotion of customs clearance facilitation reform. The strong start has laid a solid foundation for Beihai Port to realize the positioning of Beibu Gulf International Gateway Port and to help the construction of a new land-sea channel in the west.

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