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Version 3.0 China-ASEAN Free Trade Area were officially launched.
In 2022, China’s total volume of import and export in goods reached 42.1

trillion yuan, an increase of 7.7%; total volume of import and export in services
was 5.98 trillion yuan, an increase of 12.9%; and utilized foreign investment totaled
189.1 billion US dollars, an increase of 8% over last year in comparable terms.
5) New progress was made in high-quality cooperation under the Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI).

Steady steps were taken to negotiate and sign documents on Belt and Road
cooperation. By the end of 2022, China had signed more than 200 such documents
with 150 countries and 32 international organizations. China continued to deepen
international cooperation on production capacity and third-party market

cooperation and saw great returns on overseas investment. The China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor was operated at a high standard. We actively promoted
China-Mongolia-Russia cooperation, with the Heihe-Blagoveshchensk Highway
Bridge and the Tongjiang-Nizhneleninskoye Railway Bridge going into operation.
We strengthened cooperation with Kazakhstan in the transportation sector.

China-Laos Railway operations ran smoothly, and new progress was made on the
construction of the China-Thailand railway, the Hungary-Serbia railway, and the
Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway. In working faster to build a healthy, green,
digital, and innovative Silk Road, China has now signed digital Silk Road

cooperation memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with 16 countries and
MOUs with 15 countries on investment cooperation in the digital economy and
green development, and it has worked to build a number of Belt and Road joint
laboratories.
China-Europe freight trains maintained safe, efficient, and smooth operation,

registering a lifetime total of over 65,000 trips and over 6 million TEUs of cargo and
reaching more than 200 cities in 25 European countries. A number of major
railways and harbor and shipping facilities under the New International Land-Sea
Trade Corridor in the western region were built at a faster pace. We developed

major overseas projects while guarding against related risks, helped enterprises
guard against and defuse overseas investment risks, and worked faster to build a
comprehensive service platform for monitoring, assessment, and early warning of
risks related to overseas projects.
6. We carried out the rural revitalization strategy across the board and steadily
advanced the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.

Efforts were made to both consolidate and expand achievements in poverty
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