A batch of more than 200 complete motorcycles manufactured by ZXMOTO departed from Shanghai by sea on Wednesday, bound for the European market, according to a statement from Chongqing Customs sent to the Global Times on Thursday.

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) on Thursday carried out a 500-billion-yuan (about 73.3 billion U.S. dollars) one-year medium-term lending facility (MLF) operation, aiming to maintain adequate liquidity in the country's banking system.

The first electrified railway in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway, marked the railway's fifth anniversary of operation on Thursday.

"Sorry, our supervisor is currently not at the booth. He is busy visiting different companies' exhibition stands to seek potential cooperation opportunities," a staffer from a Portuguese law firm told the Global Times on Thursday at the ongoing 4th China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) in

China and the United States have agreed to establish a trade council under which the economic and trade teams of the two sides will discuss cooperation, including reciprocal tariff reductions, China's commerce ministry said Thursday.

Asked by a media inquiry for comment regarding the latest progress in China-US trade consultations on tariffs, the next steps for communication, and developments regarding China's purchases of Boeing aircraft and US agricultural products, He Yadong, a spokesperson of China's Ministry of Commerce