Exports of the province in the first six months totaled 110.27 billion yuan, up 1.7 percent year-on-year, while its imports surged 18 percent to 82.18 billion yuan during the same period.

The sharp decline, said the Mongolian Customs General Administration, is largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 100 officials in Gansu province were held accountable three years ago for illegal coal mining on the northern slope of the Qilian Mountains on the Gansu-Qinghai border.

They come from coal, iron ore, nickel ore and grain exporters, such as Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

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