China Railway Express, the most beautiful scroll painting of the Belt and Road
On September 11, with the sound of a long whistle, a China railway express(Zhongyu) loaded with papermaking equipment, additives and other goods departed from Zhengzhou International Land Port, passing through Erenhot, bound for Ulan Ude, Russia.
This marks the addition of new routes for the China Railway Express(Zhongyu) and the expansion of its operation territory. The China Railway Express(Zhongyu) has made new strides in serving Henan Province's high-level opening-up.
photo/Ma Jian
On May 10, 2014,when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Zhengzhou International Land Port, he encouraged it to "build a logistics hub connecting inside and outside China, radiating the East and West, and make more contributions to the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt", which points out the direction for the high-quality operation of China Railway Express and the development of Zhengzhou International Land Port.
On July 18, 2013, the first international freight train departed from Zhengzhou to Hamburg, Germany, which marked the substantial progress in the construction of the “ Land Silk Road” in Henan province
Ten years ago, the China Railway Express, as a new way of international logistics transportation, was not well known and accepted by the public.
In recent years, the number of China-Europe freight trains running in Zhengzhou has increased from 13 in 2013 to 1,508 in 2021.
From the initial stage, it developed from a single exit port of Alashan in Xinjiang Province and a single route of Zhengzhou to Hamburg in Germany to an international logistics network of "11 stations and 7 ports", and built a multi-station and multi-port international logistics network and a "1+N" domestic and foreign logistics hub system. Zhengzhou has unblocked the international logistics trunk routes from Europe, Central Asia, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Japan and South Korea, realizing the diversification of routes and wide network coverage. The overseas business network covers more than 130 cities in more than 30 countries in the European Union, Central Asia, Russia and the Asia-Pacific region, and more than 6,000 domestic and foreign partners.
On July 6, 2020,With the advantages of innovation ability, high-quality operation, informatization application level, freight train operation standards, location advantages, the hub effect of China-Europe freight train and so on, Zhengzhou has been approved as the only central and eastern China freight train assembly center among the five national China-Europe freight train assembly centers (Zhengzhou, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi 'an and Urumqi).
As the central hub city of China Railway Express, Zhengzhou is conducive to promoting its transformation from "point-to-point" to "hub-to-hub", and accelerating the formation of an efficient international logistics system of "combination of trunk and branch, hub and distribution".
At first, the China-Europe freight train (Zhongyu, Zhengzhou) is a "new choice" in inland areas of Henan Province besides sea transportation and air transportation, while after nearly 10 years of development, the Land Silk Road in Henan Province has gradually developed from a "commercial and trade road" into an "economic belt" of industrial and population agglomeration, and from a "new choice" in the early stage, it has become a "stabilizer" for enterprise cooperation.
Since its operation,it has been constantly innovating, advancing from the initial freight train business to international trade, and realizing the development of "transport with trade, transport and trade in one". It has changed the traditional pattern of the sales path of imported commodities from the coastal to the inland, and become the flagship project of China-Europe freight train to drive the industrial development.
The China Railway Express at the same time becomes thee first cross-border e-commerce commodity logistics special line in central China and the first two-way import and export mail collection and distribution transport channel in China, leading and driving the integrated economic development of automobile, meat, grain, cross-border e-commerce and other ports.The freight category has expanded from a single product at the beginning to cover tens of thousands of products with complete categories and diverse sources of goods, forming a development pattern of freight train industry and industry promoting freight train, helping the development of hub economy and port economy.
The land Silk Road has connected the economies along the Belt and Road, the cooperation of the Belt and Road countries, and the hearts of the people of the countries along the Belt and Road. It has created a new highland of inland opening with full functions, efficient services and smooth internal and external development.
In the future, Zhengzhou International Land Port will continue to focus on the construction of "logistics channel hub connecting inside and outside China and radiating the East and West", focus on the strategy of opening up policy, strives to turn scattered advantages into concentrated advantages, and promotes the integrated linkage of the province's international land ports and the expansion and quality development of China Railway Express.
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