Officials from the China-bordering province of Quang Ninh and China’sGuangxi province have sought to combat cross-border smuggling to create ahealthy environment for investment and trade in their border-gateareas.
At their talks in China’s Nanning city on December 24on the sidelines of the sixth meeting of the two countries’joint-working committee, they agreed to intensify the sharing ofinformation and coordination to make the fight against smuggling highlyefficient.
Greater efforts against smuggling and fake goodsare being made in border localities across Vietnam, especially when theLunar New Year (Tet) festival, the country’s biggest festive time of theyear, is approaching.
The northeastern coastalprovince of Quang Ninh, contiguous to Red River Delta provinces and theGulf of Tonkin to the east, has a long common borderline of 132.8 kmwith Dongxing city and Fangcheng county in the Chinese province ofGuangxi, creating a system of bustling border gates including Mong Cai,Bac Phong Sinh and Hoanh Mo.
Located in astrategic position in terms of politics, business, and military, theprovince can connect with Hai Phong city to establish an internationalseaport cluster, with Hanoi and other localities to create a regionaltransit route to ship Vietnamese commodities to international markets,especially the Northeast and Southeast Asian regions.
The locality is also part of the “two corridors, one belt” economiccooperation between Vietnam and China, the Pan-Tonkin Gulf economiccooperation, the bridge between ASEAN and China and theNanning-Singapore Economic Corridor.
Theprovince has seen an average GDP growth rate of over 10 percent for thelast 20 years and its GDP per capita is 2,910 USD, a 1.7-fold increaseagainst that of the national average in 2012.-VNA
At their talks in China’s Nanning city on December 24on the sidelines of the sixth meeting of the two countries’joint-working committee, they agreed to intensify the sharing ofinformation and coordination to make the fight against smuggling highlyefficient.
Greater efforts against smuggling and fake goodsare being made in border localities across Vietnam, especially when theLunar New Year (Tet) festival, the country’s biggest festive time of theyear, is approaching.
The northeastern coastalprovince of Quang Ninh, contiguous to Red River Delta provinces and theGulf of Tonkin to the east, has a long common borderline of 132.8 kmwith Dongxing city and Fangcheng county in the Chinese province ofGuangxi, creating a system of bustling border gates including Mong Cai,Bac Phong Sinh and Hoanh Mo.
Located in astrategic position in terms of politics, business, and military, theprovince can connect with Hai Phong city to establish an internationalseaport cluster, with Hanoi and other localities to create a regionaltransit route to ship Vietnamese commodities to international markets,especially the Northeast and Southeast Asian regions.
The locality is also part of the “two corridors, one belt” economiccooperation between Vietnam and China, the Pan-Tonkin Gulf economiccooperation, the bridge between ASEAN and China and theNanning-Singapore Economic Corridor.
Theprovince has seen an average GDP growth rate of over 10 percent for thelast 20 years and its GDP per capita is 2,910 USD, a 1.7-fold increaseagainst that of the national average in 2012.-VNA
