Overview:

The Port of Fangcheng is one of the 12 main hub ports along the coast of China and the largest port in the west. It is an important transit base for important strategic materials such as iron ore, building materials and coal in mainland China. There are currently 36 berths in the port, including 22 deep-water berths above 10,000 tons. It has a batch of modern large-scale port facilities and equipment such as a 200,000 ton ore terminal and the only professional container terminal in the western region . It can build 200 berths above 10,000 tons. Many, with a designed annual throughput of 1 billion tons. A number of international container routes have been opened to Hong Kong, Haiphong, Singapore, Busan, and Tokyo, and they are open to more than 220 ports in more than 80 countries and regions. In 2012, the 100 million ton leap was completed, with a throughput of 100.584 million tons. It accounts for 70% of the total throughput of coastal ports in Guangxi. In 2013, the port cargo throughput of Fangchenggang City completed 106 million tons.

There are 5 national-level ports in Fangchenggang City. Among them, Dongxing Port is the port with the largest number of land border customs clearances in China. It has realized trade with 147 countries and regions. 70% of Guangxi’s tariffs are realized in Fangcheng Port. In 2012, the entry and exit through Dongxing Port was reached. There were 4.62 million person-times, accounting for 71% of the region, and it was among the forefront of China's land border ports. It has good conditions for the construction of large-scale material transfer centers, logistics ports and export processing zones.

Fangchenggang City Introduction

Fangchenggang City is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is a coastal city, border city, and port city. It is located at the southwestern end of the coastline of mainland China, in the southwestern border of Guangxi, backed by the southwest, facing Southeast Asia, and facing the Beibu Gulf in the south. It is connected to Nanning City to the north, Qinzhou to the east, and Vietnam to the southwest. It has a coastline of 580 kilometers and a land boundary of 100.895 kilometers. It is the only ecological bay city with panoramic sea views on the Beibu Gulf. It is known as the "gateway to the southwest and the pearl of the border" and is the oxygen capital of China. , China's hometown of golden flower tea, China's hometown of egrets, China's hometown of longevity, Guangxi's second largest hometown of overseas Chinese. 

The city of Fangchenggang was built on the basis of the port. It was named after the port. The port was built first, and then the city was built. Fangcheng Port was built in March 1968 as the main starting port for the concealed maritime transport routes to aid Vietnam against the United States. It was known as the starting point of the "Ho Chi Minh Sea Trail". Fangcheng Port is China's deep-water port, one of China's 25 major coastal ports, the largest port in western China, and the main maritime gateway for southwestern China to the world. It is a large logistics platform linking China to ASEAN and serving the western region.

In May 1984, Fangcheng Port and Beihai City were listed as one of China's 14 coastal cities opened to the outside world with the approval of the state. The prefecture-level Fangchenggang District was established in 1985. In May 1993, the State Council approved the establishment of prefecture-level Fangchenggang City. As one of the core cities of Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, a key national steel energy base, Dongxing National Key Development and Opening Pilot Zone, and Yunnan Guangxi Border Financial Comprehensive Reform Pilot Zone  , Fangchenggang City has a particularly important strategic position in the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area and Pan-Beibu Gulf regional cooperation.

In 2009, Fangchenggang City's comprehensive competitiveness improved the fastest among 294 prefecture-level and above cities nationwide in the past five years.  In 2010, the city's comprehensive growth competitiveness ranked seventh in China. In 2011, it ranked 90th in China's prefecture-level cities in terms of per capita GDP. It is the only prefecture-level city in Guangxi that has entered the top 100.