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Aerial photo taken on Sept. 11, 2020 shows the city view of Shenzhen, in south China's Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)
SHENZHEN, April 3 (Xinhua) -- A ceremony
was held on Monday for the opening of a new cargo air route linking the
southern Chinese metropolis Shenzhen to Sao Paulo of Brazil, which is expected
to stimulate the e-commerce trade between the two countries.
The air route was launched by the
Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport and Cainiao Network, the logistics arm of
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, with two flights weekly conducted by
Atlas Air's Boeing 747 all-cargo aircraft.
The maiden flight carrying 100 tonnes of
e-commerce products took off from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on
Sunday, loading specialty e-commerce products in Shenzhen.
According to the airport, the products
sold by cross-border businesses in Shenzhen and its surrounding cities can be
delivered to Brazilian consumers "in more than a week."
Since the beginning of this year, the Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport has cooperated with airlines and logistics operators to open new cross-border air routes, with the volume of air transportation of cross-border products up by 70 percent year on year, said the airport.
The bilateral trade between China and Brazil reached 171.49 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 4.9 percent, according to the statistics from China's General Administration of Customs.
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