By YANG HAN in Hong Kong | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-08 09:56 Share CLOSE A customer selects products at the China-Japan-ROK Consumption Zone E-commerce Experience Center, Nov 30, 2020. [Photo by Zhang Jingang/For China Daily]
In addition to helping each other fight the pandemic, China and South Korea are expected to improve exchanges and trade that will bring a sound economic recovery. Economies of both countries will rebound from the negative shock of COVID-19, said Kim Si-joong, a professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Sogang University in South Korea. Trade and economic relations between the two countries began to show mild recovery in the second half of last year, and I expect this trend to continue in 2021.
Qingdao makes major moves in cross-border trade By XIE CHUANJIAO in Qingdao, Shandong | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-16 09:48 A customer selects products at the China-Japan-ROK Consumption Zone E-commerce Experience Center, Nov 30, 2020. [Photo by Zhang Jingang/For China Daily]
The Qingdao West Coast New Area Bonded Logistics Center was busy after the Double 11 online shopping spree, which lasted from around the beginning of November until Nov 11, where workers from e-commerce platforms feverishly sorted parcels coming from around the world and heading all over the country.
The center received more than 300,000 international parcels during this year s online shopping extravaganza, increasing threefold year-on-year.