Qingdao demo zone 'key' to closer global ties
China DailyChina-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area is located in Jiaozhou, Qingdao, Shandong province. Since being approved by the State Council in September 2019, the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area in Qingdao, Shandong province, has been making efforts to enhance its role as a regional logistics hub serving the Shanghai Cooperation Organization region and the Belt and Road economies, according to local officials at the area's work report conference on Wednesday. "We pay equal attention to facilitating economic cooperation and developing innovative business and trade models, aiming to make the area a key platform that gathers capital, technologies, talent, services and industrial chains to serve the SCO region and the BRI, and showcases scenarios of local economic and trade cooperation under multilateral frameworks," said Zhang, also a member of the standing committee of the Qingdao Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. Customs officials check freight trains at a logistics center of the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area in Qingdao, Shandong province, on Thursday.