On November 11, the National Development and Reform Commission held the Endeavour “15th Five-Year Plan” series of press conferences to introduce the situation related to the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”. Liang Linchong, director of the Regional Opening Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that through active integration into the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”, China's central and western regions have gradually become “frontiers” of openness. The open development of coastal areas has taken the next level, and the construction of the “Belt and Road” core areas in Xinjiang and Fujian has continued to achieve new results. From January to October of this year, the container volume of railway and sea intermodal trains along the new land and sea corridors in the west has exceeded 1 million TEUs. The Pinglu Canal was completed and opened to traffic, forming a major artery of opening up to the outside world through the southwest. In the first three quarters of this year, China's central and western regions accounted for 18.7% of the country's goods trade volume, an increase of 7.4 percentage points over the same period in 2013. The achievement of these achievements has provided strong support for China to expand a high level of opening-up to the outside world and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern.

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