BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China’s Ministry of Commerce will instruct Chinese enterprises to actively and steadily carry out the construction of overseas economic and trade cooperation zones in 2017 according to the actual needs of destination countries, said a recent news report.
The construction of overseas economic and trade cooperation zones by Chinese enterprises has achieved positive progress in 2016, Shanghai Securities News reported on Sunday.
By the end of 2016, such cooperation zones under construction by Chinese enterprises had numbered 77 in 36 countries along the Belt and Road, with investment involved totaling 24.19 billion U.S. dollars.
Over 1,500 enterprises have settled in those cooperation zones, with their total output value hitting 70.28 billion U.S. dollars. Enditem (Edited by Yang Yifan, yangyifan@xinhua.org)
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