The official launch of research into projects related to the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor was held in Guiyang, provincial capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province on Sept 15.
Guiyang city saw contracts for eight joint projects signed during the annual China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) held in the national capital Beijing on June 4-9.
During the first eight months of this year, the number of newly added market entities in Guiyang, the capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, reached 83,600, a year-on-year increase of 10.88 percent.
A Guiyang city delegation in August visited foreign consulates, companies and business associations in China in the municipality of Chongqing and in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province.
China will work to ensure that the registration of businesses will be entirely processed online before the end of the year in a further move to transform government functions and reinvigorate market entities, the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Wednesday.
The Guiyang bureau of commerce and the Economic Promotion Bureau of the city of Cologne in Germany recently signed a memorandum of understanding on establishing an economic partnership through a recent video conference.