BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Amid further containment of COVID-19, China is powering ahead in bringing business and life back on track. The following are the latest facts and figures of the week:
-- The 127th China Import and Export Fair, popularly known as Canton Fair, kicked off online Monday, a first for the decades-old trade fair, in south China's Guangdong Province.
This year's online fair, which will last for 10 days, has attracted around 25,000 enterprises in 16 categories with 1.8 million products.
-- More than 2,000 types of cultural products have hit online stores in a shopping festival aiming to promote the intangible cultural heritage products of central China's Hubei Province.
The shopping festival, launched in the provincial capital Wuhan, features intangible cultural heritage products in 201 online shops on multiple e-commerce websites. The festival will run through the end of this month.
-- A freight train on Tuesday left Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, heading for Kiev, Ukraine.
The train, carrying 43 containers of cargo weighing 800 tonnes, is the first direct China-Europe freight train between central China and Ukraine.
-- The Alataw Pass in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region saw a rising number of inbound and outbound China-Europe freight trains in the first five months.
A total of 1,664 China-Europe freight trains passed through the Alataw Pass, a major rail port in Xinjiang, during the period, up 39.5 percent year on year, said the Alataw Pass Customs.
-- Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com posted strong sales growth in a mid-year shopping festival that ended on Thursday, grossing a record 269.2 billion yuan (about 38 billion U.S. dollars) in online orders.
The company's annual 18-day promotion has been the first major online shopping bonanza in China since the COVID-19 epidemic began in January. The company realized a 33.6-percent year-on-year growth in "618" festival sales, compared with the previous record of 201.5 billion yuan set in 2019. Enditem
