Agricultural Bank of China Ltd announced on 2 Jan that it has obtained regulatory approval for the establishment of branches in Macao and Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

Quarantine authorities of China's Shandong province issued a certificate of origin for a batch of mirror boards to be exported to Georgia, the first such certificate signed under the free trade agreement between the two countries.

A second line for the China-Russia oil pipeline began commercial operation 1 Jan, raising China's annual imports of Russian crude oil from 15 million to 30 million tons annually through the pipeline.

The 16th China-Myanmar Border Trade Fair opened 26 Dec in Southwest China's Yunnan province to promote bilateral trade between the two and neighboring countries.

Huangpu District Government of Guangzhou City and BlueFocus IFEC Technology Co., Ltd officially announced in Guangzhou on 9th October that a ‘The Belt and Road’ Inflight Internet Fund with a capital injection of ten billion yuan will be established, together with China’s first Inflight Internet Centre for Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and a trillion-yuan Inflight Internet Industrial Park.

China and Thailand jointly inaugurated the construction of Thailand’s first high-speed railway from Bangkok to northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima 21 Dec.

With the rapid growth of the mobile payment market in China, several large foreign banks are starting a new type of business helping retailers to better collect money paid via major digital payment tools.

The ambassador of Argentina in Beijing, Diego Guelar, highlighted the central exes of the mission of Maria Eugenia Vidal, Buenos Aires governor, to the cities of Beijing, Chengdou (Capital of Sichuan province) and Hong Kong.

PetroChina's oil and gas trading arm aims to buy petrol stations and fuel storage facilities, setting up business in West Africa, Brazil and Pakistan in a major global expansion aimed at taking on international rivals, according to three senior oil industry executives briefed on the plans.

Argentina embassy announced that, after analysing the tariff structure in China, there has been a tax reduction for 32 agro-industrial goods, a very beneficial reduction for Argentinean exports.