Wang Yuexia contributed to this story.
Wang Junlin and Tang Xiaofan contributed to the story.
Wang said 1,823 berths had existed along the river in Hubei province, but only 566 remained after the regulation.
Wang said the two countries stand to gain from cooperation and to lose from confrontation as the past decades of experience have shown.
Wang believes the Belt and Road Initiative is providing broad opportunities for China-EU cooperation.
Wang Lu, an Asia-Pacific oil and gas analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, added that the biggest bottleneck currently is the underdeveloped pipeline network.
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Wang made the remarks at a news conference held at the State Council Information Office, for introducing the development of Hebei after the founding of New China in 1949.
Wang Yiwei, a professor at Renmin University of China's School of International Relations, said that since the launch of the initiative, China has been sharing its expertise in fields such as infrastructure construction and clean energy with countries and regions along the routes.
Wang Xiaoguang, former vice-governor of Guizhou province and a long-serving member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou CPC committee, and Zhang Shaochun, former vice-minister of the Ministry of Finance, were removed, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission said in a statement.
Wang Qiao, director of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment's satellite applications center, said the two regions have grown so rapidly they now have huge population densities. They face arduous difficulties in coordinated environmental protection and economic development amid continued intense urbanization.