From March 15 to 16, 2024, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, the leader of the Sino-US economic and trade consultations, held talks with US Treasury Secretary Besente and Trade Representative Greer in Paris, France. The two sides conducted candid and in-depth exchanges on issues such as tariff arrangements, promotion of bilateral trade and investment, and maintenance of existing consensus, reached some new consensus, and agreed to continue consultations. China reiterated its opposition to unilateral tariffs by the United States, urged it to remove restrictive measures, and called on both sides to meet each other in the opposite direction to promote the healthy and stable development of Sino-US economic and trade relations.

On March 13, the Director of the Department of Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce, Zhao Chunfeng, and his delegation conducted a study on the "Xianfeng Qihang" comprehensive service for going abroad at Zhongguancun Fengtai Park. The research team first visited IBI, where they were warmly received by IBI's director, senior vice president, and board secretary Pan Yong, among other leaders. The delegation visited the IBI digital economy exhibition hall, and both parties exchanged views on cross-border industry-related content, gaining an in-depth understanding of IBI's practices in the field of cross-border industries. Pan Yong, using cases, data, and application scenarios displayed in the exhibition hall, focused on introducing the company's core layout in cross-border industrial zones, digital service models, and cross-border activities.

During the Spring Festival transportation in 2026, the waterway passenger traffic volume of the Hunan section of the Yangtze River trunk line increased significantly, with 96000 passengers sent, an increase of 11.6 percent over the same period last year, and more than 39000 vehicles ferrying, an increase of 19.8 percent. The Yueyang Maritime Safety Administration has effectively responded to the peak of passenger flow by strengthening safety supervision, using information technology to ensure navigation, and carrying out voluntary services, ensuring the safety, order, convenience and smooth flow of water travel during the Spring Festival travel period, reflecting the role of water transportation in regional economic and social development. Important role.

The "Hainan Province Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network Planning Outline" proposes that by 2035, Hainan will be fully integrated into China's "Global 123 Express Logistics Circle", achieving the goal of 1 day in China, 2 days in neighboring countries, and 3 days in major cities around the world. To this end, Hainan will build an international shipping hub, an international aviation hub and a sea and land gateway hub, optimize the Qiongzhou Strait transport channel, and promote multimodal transport innovation and logistics cost reduction, with a modern high-quality comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network to support the construction of the free trade port.

The international standard "Application Cases of Green Logistics Activities" (ISO TR 25326:2026), which is led by China, was officially released, including 83 green logistics practice cases from 28 enterprises in 15 countries, 26 of which are from China. The standard focuses on transportation, warehousing, packaging and other logistics links, and provides case analysis and standardization suggestions from the five dimensions of resource intensive, low carbon emissions, recycling, environmental protection and occupational health, aiming to provide practical reference and promotion for the green transformation of the global logistics industry.

On March 13, the Ministry of Transport held a ministerial meeting to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on production safety, summarize the production safety situation in February, and deploy the safety guarantee work for the summer risk investigation and resumption of work during the flood season. The meeting deliberated and passed a number of important programs such as the Action Plan for Implementing Multimodal Transport to Overhaul Points and Cards (2026-2030), the Implementation Plan for Improving Intercity commuting Efficiency in Metropolitan Area (2026-2030), the Implementation Plan for Accelerating the Construction of Comprehensive Transportation System in Modern Capital Metropolitan Area (2026-2030), and the Action Plan for Improving Quality and Efficiency of Transportation Audit Supervision (2026-2028), the aim is to improve the level of transportation safety, optimize the logistics network, improve the commuting experience in the metropolitan area and strengthen the effectiveness of audit supervision.

On March 11, the sixth 9000-car transport ship "Grande Seoul" built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. for Italian GRIMALDI Company was successfully delivered. The ship is naturalized by the Italian Classification Society, with a total length of nearly 200 meters and a design speed of 19 knots. It adopts a main engine that meets international environmental protection standards. This delivery marks the continuous progress of Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding in the field of high-end automobile carrier ship construction, and further strengthens its position in the international ship market.

On March 12, 2026, the Fourth Session of the Fourteenth National People's Congress concluded successfully in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The meeting reviewed and approved important documents such as the government work report, the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, and the work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The conference voted and passed many important laws such as the Ecological Environment Code, the National Unity and Progress Promotion Law, and the National Development Planning Law. President Xi Jinping signed relevant presidential orders. The meeting summarized the achievements of the "14th Five-Year Plan", deployed the goals and tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and the work in 2026, and emphasized the need to fully implement Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, promote high-quality development, and basically realize socialist modernization. Lay a solid foundation.

The article focuses on the development of China's water transport during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, focusing on the strategic layout of cultivating new quality productivity and supporting regional development through the quality and expansion of major port and shipping projects. The content covers the waterway fixed asset investment and key projects in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangxi and other provinces, such as the Pinglu Canal, the construction of automated terminals, etc.; at the same time, it analyzes the trend of port automation transformation and upgrading, as well as the Han-Xianggui Canal, Zhejiang-Jiangxi-Guangdong Canal and other cross-regional water transport channels. The key role of the channel in promoting regional linkage development.

Although the International Energy Agency coordinated the release of the largest strategic oil reserve in history by 32 member countries to deal with the supply shortage caused by the situation in the Middle East, the market reacted cautiously. Investors are more concerned about the risk of shipping interruption in the Strait of Hormuz and the progress of the US-Israeli-Iraq war, which has caused international oil prices to rise instead of falling, and Brent crude oil futures prices have returned to above $100 per barrel. The analysis believes that the release of reserves can only relieve pressure in the short term and cannot fully fill the supply gap. If the conflict continues, oil prices will continue to rise.

On March 6, Jia Guangdong, President of the China Agricultural International Cooperation Promotion Association and former Party Secretary of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, along with Vice President and Secretary-General Li Li, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the Technical Transformation and Industrial Development Branch Le Rong, and Minister of Government and Enterprise Affairs of the Technical Transformation and Industrial Development Branch Liu Zeyang, were invited to visit IBIFDD. They were warmly received by IBI Vice President and FDD CEO Yin Haifeng, FDD Vice President Han Xiao, Director of Strategic Development Xu Ce, and Director of Operations Feng Bo. Both parties engaged in fruitful discussions on core topics such as the construction of the FDD seed cross-border trading platform and deep cooperation in industrial digitalization.

Spring returns to the shores of Taihu Lake, joining together for the grand Silk Road event. On March 6th, the IBI·LYDD Yangtze River Delta Digital Economy Headquarters welcomed an important delegation of Kazakhstan farmers. More than ten farm owners and agricultural industry representatives from Kazakhstan gathered with Chinese industry colleagues at the IBI Yangtze River Delta Digital Economy Headquarters to engage in in-depth discussions on topics such as agricultural planting, oil processing, cross-border supply chains, and digital agriculture, jointly mapping out a new blueprint for China-Kazakhstan agricultural industry cooperation. The delegation first visited the Yangtze River Delta Digital Economy Headquarters digital exhibition hall to gain a detailed understanding of IBI's achievements in industrial internet, digital supply chain, and agricultural big data.

Shanghai Customs data show that in the first two months of this year, the number of inbound and outbound international ships at Shanghai Port reached 7281, a record high, an increase of 2.4 percent over the same period last year. At the same time, the number of aircraft 41000 inbound and outbound sorties and 6.92 million passengers increased. During this period, Nangang Wharf was busy, Yangshan Port completed a new record of single injection of domestic green methanol, Pudong Airport added new cargo routes and optimized passenger customs clearance services, demonstrating the vitality of Shanghai Port and the progress of green transformation.

The "Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on Promoting the Development of Cruise Economy" was formally implemented, aiming to promote Shanghai to build a cruise economic center in the Asia-Pacific region with global resource allocation capabilities. The "Regulations" clarify the principles of market leadership and government guidance, and build the development pattern of hub ports, headquarters ports, and manufacturing ports. The key contents include promoting the construction of cruise tourism demonstration zones, optimizing route development and tourism products, improving customs clearance facilitation and material supply efficiency, strengthening cruise R & D and manufacturing capabilities, and deploying personnel training, safety management and dispute resolution mechanisms to provide legal protection for the high-quality development of Shanghai's cruise economy.

Ningbo Port's February 2026 production data showed a bright performance, with container throughput up 28.42 per cent year-on-year to 4.32 million TEUs and cargo throughput up 18.35 per cent year-on-year. The company's 2025 performance hit a record high, the return of net profit for the first time exceeded 5 billion yuan. The article also introduces Ningbo Port's model of expanding port logistics and capital management with terminal operation as the core, as well as its progress in route encryption, infrastructure promotion, smart green transformation and overseas market development, showing the strong vitality of the port economy and the company's high-quality sustainable development trend.