On September 6, the expansion project of Longbang Port, which is located in 
Jingxi of Baise city, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was given approval by a 
check and acceptance task force comprising members from authorities including 
the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China. The 
Longbang Port will be open to not only personnel, cargoes and vehicles of China 
and Vietnam, but expand to cover those of other third-party countries, thereby 
substantially raising the land port's functionality and capacity.  

The expansion project of the Longbang Port primarily included renovation and 
expansion of passenger inspection, upgrade and renovation of the Naxi freight 
transportation channel, etc. The passenger inspection channel received a brand 
new, five-story, national grade II passenger inspection building, while the 
Naxi freight transportation channel renovation involved a total of 230,000 
square meters in construction area, including commercial zone for citizens near 
the border, general trade zone, bonded zone, cross-border e-commerce zone, 
etc., according to the Publicity Department of Jingxi.

The Longbang Port is one of Guangxi's three major border ports, one of the most 
convenient land routes connecting the Indo-China Peninsula to the central and 
western parts of China, and an international logistics hub of the new western 
land-sea corridor. In recent years, import and export cargoes coming in and out 
of Longbang Port have steadily increased each year. In the first half of 2023, 
the Port facilitated the movement of nearly 6,000 vehicle/times, recorded 
around 14.14 billion yuan in foreign trade, notched 1.13 billion yuan in mutual 
imports of merchandise, and realized 740 million yuan in on-site processing of 
imported product.

Source: The Publicity Department of Jingxi

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