Quang Ninh's Mong Cai city works to keep cross-border trade uninterrupted
After a short break to welcome the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, border gates and crossings in Mong Cai city in the northern province of Quang Ninh has reopened since February 3 to keep cross-border trade uninterrupted.
Trucks move on the Km3+4 Hai Yen pontoon bridge of Mong Cai International Border Gate in Quang Ninh province. (Photo: VNA)
Quang Ninh (VNA)– After a short break to welcome the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, border gates and crossings inMong Cai city in the northern province of Quang Ninh has reopened since February3 to keep cross-border trade uninterrupted.
More than 62,000 tonnes ofgoods was exported and imported via Mong Cai's border gates and crossings between January 1 and February 7,raising trade turnover here since the year’s beginning to over 400 million USD,up 27 percent from the same period of 2021.
To obtain this result, localauthorities proactively held talks with their counterparts of China’s Dongxingcity during the Lunar New Year holiday to ensure smooth export - import activitieswith safety from COVID-19 taken into account. They also ordered border gatesarrange sufficient personnel to guarantee trade and movement flows.
Besides, Chairman of theQuang Ninh Provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Tuong Van demanded Mong Caicity and relevant forces carry out comprehensive and flexible measures to control the pandemic.
They were also told toenhance diplomatic efforts, including meetings and phone talks with the Chineseside, to tackle difficulties and facilitate trading activities, while graspinginformation in a timely manner to notify domestic businesses of the customsclearance situation in order to prevent congestion at border gates and crossings.
In the long term, the mostimportant factor for boosting export and import is to develop synchronous infrastructure. To do that, it is necessary to have more mechanisms promotinglogistic services, further encourage businesses to handle export - import proceduresin Mong Cai, press on with procedure simplification and modernisation, and stepup digital transformation and e-commerce in trading activities, according tothe official./.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade said that on January 10 morning, China’s Guangxi province officially resumed customs clearance at border gates and border crossings in its Dongxing city bordering Mong Cai city of Vietnam’s Quang Ninh province, including bridges Bac Luan 1 and Bac Luan 2, and pontoon bridge Km 3+4.
Close to 200 trucks carrying goods were cleared to cross the border as of 1 pm on January 10, after China’s Guangxi province officially resumed customs clearance at border gates and border crossings in its Dongxing city bordering Mong Cai city of Vietnam’s Quang Ninh province, including bridges Bac Luan 1 and Bac Luan 2, and pontoon bridge Km 3+4.
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Trucks move on the Km3+4 Hai Yen pontoon bridge of Mong Cai International Border Gate in Quang Ninh province. (Photo: VNA) 
