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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 5 (Xinhua) — As of April 27, the China-Kazakhstan International Boundary Cooperation Center Khorgos (ICBC Khorgos) has received more than three million visitors since the beginning of this year, Zhongxinshe News Agency reported.
For comparison, last year the number of visitors to the Khorgos ICBC exceeded the 3 million mark 74 days later – only in July.
The Khorgos ICBC in the city of the same name in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was commissioned in April 2012. Its total area is 5.28 square kilometers, of which 3.43 square kilometers belong to China and 1.85 square kilometers to Kazakhstan. The center is mainly used as a venue for trade negotiations, exhibitions, sales, storage and transportation of goods, as well as the provision of financial services.
Currently, there are more than 2,000 retail outlets in the Chinese part of the Khorgos International Centre of Boundary Cooperation, where they sell about a thousand types of goods produced in 40 countries and regions of the world.
As reported at the Khorgos border checkpoint, the border service has developed measures in advance to provide assistance to various categories of citizens in connection with the expected sharp increase in the number of people crossing the state border during the May Day holidays. -0-