We are planning a trip to
Istanbul this summer.
我们计划今年夏天去伊斯坦布尔旅行。
Istanbul is a melting pot of cultures, blending East and West.
伊斯坦布尔是文化的融合体，东西方文化在这里交汇。
The Hagia Sophia in
Istanbul is a stunning example of Byzantine architecture.
伊斯坦布尔的圣索菲亚大教堂是拜占庭建筑风格的惊人典范。
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar is the largest covered market in the world.
伊斯坦布尔的大巴扎是世界上最大的室内市场。
The Bosphorus Strait divides
Istanbul into two parts: Europe and Asia.
博斯普鲁斯海峡将伊斯坦布尔分为欧洲和亚洲两部分。
Every time I visit
Istanbul, I feel like I'm discovering something new.
每次我访问伊斯坦布尔，都感觉自己在发现新的事物。
The nightlife in
Istanbul is vibrant and diverse, with many options for entertainment.
伊斯坦布尔的夜生活丰富多彩，有许多娱乐选择。
Istanbul is famous for its delicious street food, especially the kebabs and simit.
伊斯坦布尔以美味的街头小吃闻名，尤其是烤肉串和西米特面包。
The Blue Mosque in
Istanbul is one of the most beautiful mosques in the world.
伊斯坦布尔的蓝色清真寺是世界上最美丽的清真寺之一。
Istanbul has a rich history that spans over thousands of years.
伊斯坦布尔有着超过千年历史的丰富历史。
On the international leg, the carrier has resumed flights that connect Beijing Daxing with Amsterdam, Istanbul and Seoul, and launched new international flights connecting Beijing Daxing and London, Moscow, Tokyo and Osaka, the carrier said.
该航空公司表示，在国际航班上，该航空公司已恢复连接北京大兴与阿姆斯特丹、伊斯坦布尔和首尔的航班，并开通了连接北京大兴和伦敦、莫斯科、东京和大阪的新国际航班。
Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines will start to operate direct flights between Shanghai and Istanbul of Turkiye on Thursday, which is the first of its kind between the two cities by a Chinese airliner.
总部位于上海的中国东方航空公司将于周四开始运营上海和土耳其伊斯坦布尔之间的直飞航班，这是中国客机首次在这两个城市之间运营此类航班。
The first flight will take off at 1.30 am on Thursday from the Shanghai Pudong International Airport, and arrive at Istanbul Airport after 12 hours flying.
首班航班将于周四凌晨1点30分从上海浦东国际机场起飞，飞行12小时后抵达伊斯坦布尔机场。
Situated on both sides of the Bosphorus Strait that divides Asia and Europe, Istanbul is the only city in the world that sits across the two continents.
伊斯坦布尔位于分隔亚欧的博斯普鲁斯海峡两岸，是世界上唯一横跨两大洲的城市。
- Chinese smart devices maker Honor unveiled its new mobile phone on Tuesday at a ceremony held in Istanbul, Türkiye's largest city.
-周二，中国智能设备制造商Honor在土耳其最大城市伊斯坦布尔举行的仪式上发布了新款手机。
- Chinese companies from a wide array of sectors have received "intense attention" at an international trade expo being held in Türkiye's biggest city Istanbul, a Turkish business leader said on Friday.
-土耳其一位商界领袖周五表示，在土耳其最大城市伊斯坦布尔举行的国际贸易博览会上，来自多个行业的中国公司受到了“高度关注”。
A total of 32 Chinese companies and business groups have participated the Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association Expo, a four-day event that started in Istanbul on November 2.
共有32家中国公司和商业团体参加了11月2日在伊斯坦布尔开始的为期四天的独立实业家和商人协会博览会。
Jointly established in 2013 by Chinese rail manufacturer China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co Ltd and Turkey's MNG Holding, CRRC-MNG has provided metro vehicles and services for important cities in Turkey, including Istanbul and Ankara.
中土合资的CRRC-MNG于2013年由中车株洲电力机车有限公司和土耳其MNG集团共同成立，为土耳其的主要城市，包括伊斯坦布尔和安卡拉，提供地铁车辆和服务。
Istanbul, Athens, Manchester and Reykjavik are among the destinations to be connected with Shanghai.
Turkish Airlines launched direct flights that connect Istanbul and Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province on Monday, the first direct flights between the two cities.
Back in 1999, Turkish Airlines launched its first flights in China that connected Beijing and Istanbul.
An Airbus A350 of China's Sichuan Airlines on Thursday completed its first direct flight from Chengdu in southwestern China to Turkey's Istanbul, with the jet airliner painted with the image of a giant panda.
Sichuan Airlines, which is operating more than 300 flights to nearly 140 cities on five continents, made its inaugural flight to Istanbul at the end of April.
- The Sichuan Airlines of China on Tuesday morning completed its inaugural direct flight to Istanbul of Turkey from Chengdu in southwestern China.
The Istanbul Airport performed a watergate ceremony for the flight, the first time for the airport to do so on a foreign flight, after it landed with 279 passengers aboard.
Cui Wei, Chinese consul general in Istanbul, welcomed the flight along with airport officials.
The program, which utilizes the resource advantages of Chongqing municipality and Istanbul, the capital of Turkey, provides online trading, payment, financial services, overseas marketing, as well as logistics, customs declaration, inspection declaration, tax refund, settlement of exchange and other integrated services of foreign trades, according to DHgate.
Turkish firms have shown a "very intense interest" in the upcoming CIIE and are planning to sign more trade agreements with their Chinese counterparts, TIM Chairman Ismail Gulle said in a meeting in Istanbul.
Turkish firms shall showcase their products in an area of approximately 4,000 square meters this year, five times larger than the previous year, said Adil Pelister, the director of board of the Istanbul Chemicals and Chemical Products Exporters Association.
Some 40 Turkish firms will be participating in the expo, said the Istanbul Chemicals and Chemical Products Exporters Association that coordinates Turkey's participation in the Shanghai event.
Around 40 Turkish firms will be attending," said Seyma Inam, an expert from the Istanbul Mineral and Metals Exporters' Association, adding that Turkish Airlines also announced its willingness to participate in the event.
China Southern Airlines, the largest airline in Asia by fleet size, plans to launch routes between Beijing and Istanbul, Guangzhou and Thailand's Samui, Guangzhou and the Philippines' Cebu, and Guangzhou and Thailand's Krabi as it continues to expand its network.
China's first overseas high-speed rail project was completed in Turkey in 2014, with a 530-kilometer railway linking Ankara and Istanbul.
ISTANBUL- Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has said ride hailing app Uber is finished in Turkey, following pressure from Istanbul taxi drivers who said it was providing an illegal service and called for it to be banned.
About 17,400 taxis operate in Istanbul, home to about a fifth of Turkey's population of 81 million people, and since Uber entered the country in 2014 tensions have risen sharply.
That does not exist anymore," he said in a speech in Istanbul late on Friday.
Uber said that about 2,000 yellow cab drivers use its app to find customers, while another 5,000 work for UberXL, using large vans to transport groups to parties, or take people with bulky luggage to Istanbul's airports.
It declined to reveal the number of Uber users in Turkey, where it operates in Istanbul, and in the resort towns of Bodrum and Cesme in the summer months.
Earlier this year, Istanbul's taxi drivers took Uber to court accusing it of hindering their business and operating illegally.
A Chinese expo of ceramic, bathroom and kitchen items kicked off in Istanbul on Tuesday.
The expo coincides with Istanbul Ceramic, Bathroom and Kitchen Fair, the second largest of its kind in the world, which brings together the leading players in the ceramic, bathroom and kitchen industries for five days until March 3.
A total of 42 Chinese firms attend the expo, covering an area of nearly 1,000 square meters at Istanbul's CNR Expo.
Chinese Consul General in Istanbul Cui Wei and Wu Zhengping, the director general of Trade Development Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, the organizer of the Chinese expo, made a tour of the Chinese exhibition area.
The Power Construction Corporation of China onxa0May 23xa0marked the opening of its Eurasia headquarters in Istanbul in efforts to further integrate into the Eurasian market.
[Photo/Xinhua]ISTANBUL - The Power Construction Corporation of China on Tuesday marked the opening of its Eurasia headquarters in Istanbul in efforts to further integrate into the Eurasian market.
He said PowerChina is delivering on the Chinese government's wish to bring mutual benefit and win-win opportunities to countries along the Belt and Road by basing its regional headquarters in Istanbul.
Ismail Gultekin, a deputy governor of Istanbul, said China has changed both its own region and the whole world with its projects and moves.
Liu Hualong, chairman of China Railway Rolling Stock Corp Ltd, said the country's top railway vehicle maker will deliver the first group of metro cars to Istanbul from its manufacturing facility in Turkey later this year.
[Photo/VCG]ISTANBUL - China's COSCO Shipping Lines on Sunday marked the opening of a new regional service of container shipping that connects the ports in Northern Europe and those in the Mediterranean Sea.
Addressing the opening ceremony in Istanbul, Tian Dong, vice president of COSCO Shipping (Europe), described the new direct service as a "milestone" for the shipping lines, as it is provided by a Chinese company for the first time in the region.
The shipping lines has invested in the terminals of Piraeus, Kumport and Antwerp, located respectively in Greece, Istanbul and Belgium.
Huang Songfeng, the Chinese commercial consul, said he believes the new service is helpful in developing new markets in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative as well as in exploiting the unique geographical advantages of Istanbul and Turkey.
- The Chinese economy is growing steadily and remains on the right track, a Turkish scholar has said.
- The first Türkiye-China Business Conference was held on Tuesday in the largest Turkish city Istanbul, with the participation of more than 100 Turkish and Chinese business people.
The third China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE) provides excellent opportunities for global companies to explore the Chinese market, a Turkish business person said.
The interest is beyond our expectations," Coskun Simsek, head of the China Trade Center in Istanbul, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
- Hosting the third China International Consumer Products Expo with tremendous global participation has proven that China will play a bigger role in the new digital world, a Turkish analyst has said.
The Chinese economy is expected to grow further in 2023 thanks to policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Turkish experts have said.
- China's economy grew in the first quarter of this year, exceeding expectations despite a series of complicated issues in the international arena, a Turkish economist has said.
Oguz Demir, associate professor of economics at the Istanbul Commerce University, said the CIIE provided a favorable platform for interactions among businesspeople from all over the world.
Its route covers almost 8,700 kilometers, passing through two continents, two seas, five countries and forwarding its freight from Istanbul to Xi'an in less than two weeks.
to plan on receiving Chinese visitors and organizing new tours and destinations in the city," Serhan Kochan, a tour operator for the Ligarba Travel Agency in the largest Turkish city of Istanbul, told Xinhua.
China Southern Airlines will resume passenger flight services between Central China's Wuhan, Hubei province, and Istanbul, Turkey starting June 29, according to the company's branch in Hubei.
The outbound flight is scheduled to leave Wuhan at 4:05 pm Beijing time and arrive in Istanbul at about 9 pm local time.
The return flight will take off from Istanbul at 11:20 pm local time, and then arrive in Wuhan at 1:20 pm Beijing time the next day.
The Wuhan-Istanbul air route, launched in May 2019, was the first direct flight to Istanbul in Central China.
Chinese consumers' growing favor in Turkish food products has translated into an 86 percent increase in exports for most of 2021 following expos organized by China despite the COVID-19 pandemic, industry insiders said.
XI'AN - Three new direct air routes were opened on Monday linking northwestern Chinese city of Xi'an and Istanbul, Budapest and Nursultan respectively, according to Xi'an Xianyang International Airport.
Three round trips operated by Turkish Airlines are expected to be made between Xi'an and Istanbul, with inbound flights on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and outbound ones on every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
- China's tech giant Xiaomi inaugurated Monday its new factory in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul, the state-run Anadolu agency said.
- China's tech giant Xiaomi began trial production in Turkey, Turkish Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank said on Thursday.
Thanks to a new collaboration agreement with ICBC Bank, Chinese tourists can enjoy the convenience of paying in renminbi via the service at Istanbul International Airport's UNIFREE duty-free stores, thanks to a new collaboration with ICBC bank, according to a press release from WeChat Pay.
- China's third-party payment platform WeChat Pay, run by Chinese tech giant Tencent, was launched in Turkey on Tuesday.
Speaking at an online signing ceremony, Turkey's Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said the payment service is first offered in Turkey's Istanbul Airport, and later it will be used in different parts of the country.
Cui Wei, the Chinese consul general in Istanbul, said the project further strengthened the economic cooperation between the two countries.
The Istanbul Airport served 64 million passengers over the last year after it became operational in April 2019.
The Turkish branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) was recognized for excellence in corporate banking by the Britain-based Global Banking and Finance Review, a magazine of the global finance industry, the ICBC said in a press release on Thursday.
- The Chinese currency Renminbi (RMB) has been gaining popularity in the global market, and has made major breakthroughs in internationalization, a Turkish financing expert has said.
The Turkish subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) on Thursday was granted the "Best Investment Banking of the Year Award" by the Turkish Capital Market Association (TCMA).
Istanbul Stock Exchange Deputy General Manager Korkmaz Enes Ergun presented the award to Gao Xiangyang, chairman of ICBC Turkey, at the fifth Annual Capital Market Awards Ceremony hosted by the TCMA in Istanbul, according to a press release issued after the event.
The Turkish subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) on Wednesday evening was awarded for its contributions to institutionalized securities brokerage in Turkey.
Ali Fuat Taskesenlioglu, chairman of the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, declared ICBC Turkey as the "leader in brokerage transactions in financing" at an awarding ceremony hosted in Istanbul by the Turkish Capital Markets Association.
ICBC Turkey, a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), on Thursday was named the "International Bank of the Year" for its "distinguished contributions" to Turkey's economy.
At an awarding ceremony in Istanbul, Binali Yildirim, speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, granted the award to Gao Xiangyang, chairman of ICBC Turkey.