China opens a new channel for vegetable and fruit export to Mongolia

Visitors tasting grapes served at a Chinese farmers' harvest festival in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China, 19 September 2022. (Photo: Peng Yuan/Xinhua) HOHHOT, December 20 (Xinhua) -- China opened a new fruit and vegetable export channel to Mongolia on Monday, shipping 18.5 tons of fresh produce from Ganqmond Port in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the north of the country. Trucks carrying 18 types of vegetables and fruits, including apples, pears, tomatoes and cucumbers, passed through the land port in Bayan Nur city and headed for Mongolia's Southern Gobi province, where demand for agricultural products continues to rise due to the growing population in the mining region. Lyu Xiaojun, deputy director of the Ms. Noor port management business office, said that in the past, fruits, vegetables and other daily necessities were transported via Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, to Mongolia's capital, Ulan Bator, and from ...