[Liaoning transportation key investment will reach 53 billion yuan]According to the Liaoning Provincial Department of Transport, in order to implement the requirements of Liaoning three-year action deployment, Liaoning will promote the implementation of 72 key transportation projects worth more than RMB 100 million in 2023, with an investment of RMB 53 billion, up 15.3% year-on-year. In order to accelerate the resumption of key projects and promote the increase of physical workload and investment, Liaoning focused on solving prominent problems concerned by market entities, and launched ten work measures, including serving the special management of state-owned enterprises, booking services for large-scale transportation, managers of road-related construction projects, cross-provincial handling of high-frequency matters, and high-speed cloud loans for small and micro enterprises, to promote the healthy and sustainable development of market entities. In order to do a good job in bulk transportation reservation service, Liaoning government departments actively docking with more than 50 large manufacturing enterprises such as Shenyang Aircraft Manufacturing Co., LTD., Sany Heavy Industry Co., LTD., take the initiative to provide door-to-door service, establish windoon-to-door cooperation relationship between government and enterprise for administrative examination and approval, and provide them with reservation system examination and approval service according to the production plan of enterprises. Since 2023, 19,561 large transportation approvals have been handled. With a year-on-year growth of 11%, the average time for cross-provincial approval of three types of major projects was reduced from 15 days to 2.8 days, ranking first in the country. Editor/Xu Shengpeng
On October 17, 2026, the Yawan high-speed railway has been in operation for three years, with a cumulative passenger volume of over 18 million and safe operation of over 8.9 million kilometers, with a punctuality rate of 99.4%. The route has shortened the travel time between the two places, driven commercial agglomeration along the route, served over 960000 international passengers, and demonstrated the achievements of China Indonesia joint construction. Editor/Min Jing
On October 17, 2026, Croatian Prime Minister Plikovic met with Wang Yi in Zagreb. Both sides affirmed the comprehensive partnership between China and Croatia, discussed cooperation in infrastructure, photovoltaics, culture, and tourism, exchanged views on China Europe economic and trade cooperation, and talked about China's cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe and the situation in the Western Balkans. Editor/Min Jing