• This article focuses on an exclusive interview with Shen Hongyu, President of the Fourth Civil Trial Division of the Supreme People's Court, and expounds China's plans and measures to enhance the international influence of foreign-related justice in the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan. The focus includes improving the rules for the application of foreign-related civil and commercial laws, improving the diversified settlement mechanism for arbitration and mediation in international commercial litigation, unifying adjudication standards, and creating a preferred place for international commercial dispute resolution through the International Commercial Court and the "one-stop" platform. The article also shows the growth data of foreign-related cases during the 14th Five-Year Plan period and the practical results of the International Commercial Court, reflecting China's determination to strengthen the construction of a foreign-related legal system and enhance judicial credibility.
  • In February 2026, affected by the long Spring Festival holiday, the performance of the three Gorges reservoir area truck ro-ro shipping market declined. In the same month, a total of 5800 trucks were transported, down 54.5 percent from the previous month and 33 percent from the same period last year, while drivers and passengers transported 6000 people, a significant decrease from the same period last year. A total of 32 ships are in operation in the market, and the main cargo categories are chemical raw materials and construction materials. Freight rates remained stable and were not adjusted. Port throughput data show that Hubei Zigui Yinxingtuo terminal accounts for the highest proportion.
  • For the first time, China has realized the export transportation of large-scale solid-state hydrogen storage equipment in the state of hydrogen charging, which marks a new breakthrough in the independent research and development of solid-state hydrogen storage technology. The magnesium-based solid-state hydrogen storage equipment is shipped to Malaysia for local hydrogen energy projects, with a single tank storage capacity of 1 ton, with the advantages of normal temperature and pressure storage, high safety, long cycle life and so on. Through technical assessment, green channel and full on-site service, the maritime department has ensured the smooth completion of this innovative transportation, providing a practical case for the extension of the hydrogen energy industry chain and international cooperation.
  • In 2026, Anhui Province's transportation "double recruitment and double introduction" and government-bank-enterprise docking meeting was held in Hefei, focusing on market-oriented financing, aiming to provide a solid guarantee for the high-quality development of Anhui's transportation during the "15th Five-Year Plan. The meeting introduced the province's transportation development achievements, the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" and key projects, and pointed out that the "golden window period" of transportation investment and financing is currently ushering in ". The meeting focused on the three major tasks of building a diversified financing matrix, stimulating the vitality of social capital, and giving full play to the role of the government, bank and enterprise platform, and held a large-scale signing ceremony to promote and release a number of key projects with huge total investment, providing a broad investment space for social capital.
  • From January to February 2024, China's national railways completed fixed asset investment of 72.2 billion billion yuan, an increase of 5.4 percent over the same period last year, and railway construction was promoted with high quality and efficiency. The National Railway Group focuses on serving major national strategies, gives full play to the advantages of the railway industry chain, and uses national policy support to organize continuous construction of a number of key projects during the Spring Festival holiday, promote a number of key projects to make positive progress, and inject new momentum into regional economic and social development.
  • Recently, Yingkou Port successfully opened TIR international road transport business. A truck with TIR logo departed from Yingkou Port and left for Europe via Manzhouli Port. The business adopts the mode of "one declaration, one certificate to the end, one car direct", the whole process does not change cars, does not reverse, realizes "door-to-door" transportation, significantly improves transportation efficiency and reduces costs. This is an important measure of Yingkou Port's service to jointly build the "the belt and road initiative" initiative and innovate the logistics mode, aiming to create a new multimodal transport channel of "domestic trade and maritime transport gathering port hub transshipment TIR cross-border highway.
  • Ningbo Port's February 2026 production data showed strong performance, with container throughput up 28.42 per cent year-on-year to 4.32 million TEUs and cargo throughput up 18.35 per cent year-on-year to 95 million tonnes. The company's performance in 2025 hit a record high, and the net profit of the parent company broke through the 5 billion yuan mark for the first time, reaching 5.168 billion yuan, achieving three consecutive years of growth. As a leading domestic port enterprise, Ningbo Port has demonstrated the strong vitality of the port economy by optimizing the route layout, promoting infrastructure construction and smart green transformation, driving high-quality sustainable development.
  • This paper interprets the core content of the draft outline of the Tenth Five-Year Plan. The plan has set up 20 main indicators, of which people's livelihood indicators account for more than one-third, focusing on the issue of "one old and one small", including coping with the aging of the population and building a child-friendly society. The plan emphasizes promoting high-quality development and enhancing the domestic cycle by promoting positive interaction between supply and demand and improving the quality of the supply system. At the same time, it plans to deploy the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation to promote new quality productivity, and plans to build a modern infrastructure system covering transportation, energy, water conservancy and new infrastructure to provide support for long-term development.
  • Fuzhou City has issued the "Fuzhou Port Production Development Support Policy (2026-2028)" and will allocate 0.15 billion yuan of special funds every year for three years to launch 15 incentive measures in five major directions: improving the efficiency of port connectivity, promoting container supply agglomeration, expanding the hinterland of the port, consolidating the main channel to Taiwan and building an export channel for ro-ro cars. The policy aims to strengthen the support of port logistics, stimulate the vitality of the port and shipping market, promote the construction of "maritime Fuzhou" and the development of port-type national logistics hub, and inject sustained momentum into the high-quality development of Fuzhou Port.
  • The article reports on the hot discussion of the draft outline of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" by representatives of the transportation industry. The deputies and committee members believe that the plan has drawn a grand blueprint for the high-quality development of transportation, clarifying key directions such as building a modern comprehensive transportation system, promoting high-level opening up, strengthening scientific and technological innovation, cultivating new quality productivity, and improving the temperature of people's livelihood services. Representatives from management departments, enterprises, scientific research institutes and grass-roots front-line representatives combined with their respective fields, on infrastructure integration, intelligent green transformation, international transport corridor construction, crew rights protection and other specific issues, showing the industry's cohesion, determination to forge ahead in a new journey.
  • China Merchants Nanyou announced that it will order three 6600-ton stainless steel chemical ships for 0.492 billion yuan, which are expected to be delivered in the first half of 2028. The new ship will be designed in accordance with the latest green ecological specifications, meet EEDI Phase III standards, and adopt methanol dual-fuel reservation technology. The investment aims to optimize the company's chemical fleet structure, enhance market competitiveness, and consolidate its leading position in the field of liquid cargo transportation at home and abroad.
  • On March 4, 2025, the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Party and state leaders Xi Jinping and Li Qiang waited until the meeting to congratulate. Wang Huning, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, made a work report on behalf of the standing Committee, summarizing the work of the past year and putting forward requirements for the work of the CPPCC in the first year of the 15th five-year Plan in 2026. The meeting focused on the formulation and implementation of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" outline, and organized committee members to conduct in-depth consultations and discussions on politics, so as to build consensus and strength for the comprehensive promotion of Chinese-style modernization and the great cause of national rejuvenation.
  • Meishan Port District of Ningbo Zhoushan Port is the first port in the country to apply physical intelligence technology and introduce quadruped robot dogs for heavy box inspection. The robot can automatically identify the container number and lead seal number, with an accuracy rate of over 99%, reducing the inspection work that originally took 4-6 people more than 1 hour to 20 minutes, creating a new paradigm of coordination and intelligence between customs and ports.
  • Guangxi recently issued 12.02 billion yuan for key projects in the transportation field in 2026, focusing on the three major directions of highway, water transportation and comprehensive transportation. The funds will be used to support the construction of G7221 Hengyang-Nanning and other national highways, along the border national highway G219, as well as major water transportation projects such as the Pinglu Canal and the navigation facilities of the Baise Water Conservancy Project. At the same time, the layout of emergency hubs will be improved to accelerate the construction of a modern comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network. Provide solid support for the construction of new land and sea corridors in the west and regional economic and social development.
  • Shanghai Hongkou District launched the construction of a global air trade supply chain management service platform, aiming to integrate the existing air trade chain, single window and other decentralized systems, open up data islands, improve logistics efficiency and supply chain financial services capabilities. Relying on the advantages of more than 4600 port and shipping enterprises and financial resources in Hongkou District, the platform promotes the transformation of the region from a "shipping region" to a "supply chain service hub", helps Shanghai build a global supply chain management center, and realizes the leap from a "large flow port" to a "value management center.
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