"In recent years, the focus of the global aviation industry has gradually shifted eastward to China and the Middle East.
“近年来，全球航空业的重心逐渐向东转移到中国和中东地区。
As part of the massive west-to-east electricity transmission project in the country, the project exploits the abundant hydropower resources in Yunan, as well as Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, and transfers electricity eastward to South, Central and North China.
作为我国大规模西电东送工程的一部分，该项目利用云南、贵州、四川等省丰富的水电资源，向东输送电力至华南、华中和华北地区。
Despite being remote, it is a land of treasure that faces eastward and has access to the Pacific Ocean," the seafood merchant said.
The Yangtze is China's longest river, and the Huaihe, originating in Henan province, flows eastward for 1,000 km through Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces before emptying into the Yangtze at Sanjiangying in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province.
"After the success of our sand control campaign, we were able to safeguard our homeland as the sand retreated more than 20 kilometers eastward from our mother river, the Yellow River," Wang said.
The 1,344-km railway runs through Angola, from west of the Atlantic port city of Lobito, eastward through key cities such as Benguela, Huambo, Kuito and Luena before reaching the border city of Luao, bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Wang Qingxian, Party secretary of Qingdao, said the Jiaodong Economic Circle is not only a key strategic hub serving north, south, east and west but also an important pivot point for the New Eurasian Land Bridge economic corridor eastward to Japan and South Korea and westward to countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.
"The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge is the same as usual, so is the roaring Yangtze flowing eastward," Wang Yu, a tourist from Hubei's Enshi City, said while enjoying a distant view on top of the tower.
Li Baodong, secretary-general of the Boao Forum for Asia, said at a news conference that an impressive trend is that "clusters of technological innovation are shifting eastward toward Asia".
Over the past 10 years, the centers of the international shipping industry have undergone significant changes, with goods, trade and capital gradually moving eastward, said Hayao Gen, president of Fenghai Technology Consulting Services Co Ltd. Chinese port cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Qingdao now rank among the top international shipping centers, contributing to the stability of the global supply chains, said the port construction expert.
Over the past 10 years, the centers of the international shipping industry have undergone significant changes, with goods, trade and capital gradually moving eastward, said Hayao Gen, president of Fenghai Technology Consulting Services Co Ltd, a consulting firm of Japan Port Group.
Traversing wild deserts and grasslands, the natural gas in the pipeline will travel nearly 2,000 km eastward over the next 84 hours to the Chinese border city of Horgos in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, from where it is distributed further to various Chinese regions, including Shanghai, Fuzhou, and Hong Kong.
Starting from the first compressor station, the natural gas in the pipeline will travel nearly 2,000 km eastward over the next 84 hours, traversing wild deserts and grasslands, reaching the Chinese border city of Horgos in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Starting from the first compressor station, the natural gas in the pipeline will travel nearly 2,000 km eastward over the next 84 hours traversing wild deserts and grasslands, and reach the Chinese border city of Horgos in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
The Baihetan-Zhejiang project is expected to send 30 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity eastward every year, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 12.5 million households.
The expo and forum, which will last until May 15, aims to implement the results from the recently concluded second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, further open up China’s western region, explore trade cooperation potential, improve the level of cross-regional interaction, as well as establish multidimensional cooperative mechanisms, in order to promote high-quality development, and form a new cooperation pattern with links running eastward and westward over land and sea.
"The global civil aviation market has shown an apparent eastward shift to Asia, with China as the major impetus.
"It is very clear that gold flows have been moving eastward for some time," said Timothy Wood, executive director of Denver Gold Group.
As the number of IPOs plunged in the United States this year, related activity has shifted eastward with China's market showing more vibrancy, experts said on Monday.
China's ambitious target of achieving socialist modernization for its 1.4 billion people against the odds of an aging population, when accomplished, will shift the world's prosperity eastward, according to experts and various publications.