The city of Baotou's Mandula Port, in Inner Mongolia, has seen its passenger handling capacity grow 250 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2016.
China and Mongolia held the first consultation conference on the Erenhot -Zamyn Und cross border economic cooperation zone in Erenhot on March 26.
China and Mongolia have agreed to dedicate nine square km on either side of their border to a joint economic zone, in their first meeting on the issue.
The economic and trade cooperation between China and Mongolia has gone well beyond natural resources, and is extending to the fields of infrastructure and finance.
A bullet train departed Hohhot East Railway Station for Ulanqab marking the start of high-speed rail services using Inner Mongolia’s first newly-laid high-speed railway on Aug 3.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the autonomous region, during which various celebrations are planned to showcase its prosperity and ethnic diversity.