In the morning light of Lanzhou International Land Port, another international train loaded with daily necessities and auto parts sounded its whistle. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, the first China Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan railway intermodal train in the Year of the Horse departs from here to Herat, Afghanistan, carrying Chinese manufacturing and New Year's greetings, as well as the ambition of Gansu to open up to the west.

This kind of scene is frequently happening on the land of Longyuan in the first half of 2026.

Train encryption and channel expansion

In the first half of the year, Gansu International Logistics Group shipped 245 international trains, a year-on-year increase of 77.5%. The China Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan railway public intermodal international train has been steadily increased to two trains per week, significantly improving the efficiency of the Central Asia corridor; The JSQ designated commercial train departed from Manzhouli Port for the first time, opening up a new route for domestic cars to enter Northeast Asia. In the first half of the year, a total of 7499 commercial vehicles were exported; The Central Asia return train transported 80000 tons of high-quality feed back and completed transit distribution in Lanzhou, laying a solid foundation for the feed distribution and processing center in Gansu; The Xinjiang coal export test train headed straight from Lanzhou to Laos, pushing the cross-border transportation line of energy commodities further south.

Double doubling of mutual promotion of transportation and trade

The logistics channels are activated, and the trade plates are rising accordingly. From January to June, the group's import and export trade volume increased by 104.2% year-on-year, logistics revenue increased by 48.2%, industrial project investment of 324 million yuan, and supply chain cooperation investment attraction of 859 million yuan increased synchronously.

On the import side, Peruvian silver concentrate is regularly supplied to Jinchuan Group, while Australian Newman mine, Kazakhstan flaxseed, and feed wheat flour are stably fed into Gansu; On the export side, Jingning apples have entered Nepal, Red Fuji has taken the train to Malaysia, and the first shipment of microsilica powder has been exported to the United Arab Emirates. 47 tons of apples, 3000 tons of microsilica powder, and 170000 tons of ore blocks are linked together to stabilize the foundation of agricultural products, break through mineral products, and expand the diversified pattern of industrial products.

The import and export trade volume of Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Bonded Zone increased by 43.8% from January to May.

Chain collaboration to build a highland

Behind the growth lies the twisting force of trains, industries, trade, and finance. The group abandons the old path of relying solely on shipping costs to make money, allowing international trains to both transport goods and carry orders - the front end locks in Central Asian grain sources and South American mineral sources, the back end catches smelting and processing enterprises in the province, and feeds the distribution center with return feed in the middle, and uses map based parking spaces to help car companies go abroad. In the first half of the year, the first export of steel and aluminum coils to the United Arab Emirates and cross-border maintenance services for locomotives were launched, extending the reach of openness from goods to service providers.

When 245 steel camel caravans travel back and forth between Lanzhou and Central Asia, Northeast Asia, and Southeast Asia, Gansu, an inland province that does not border or rely on the sea, is depositing channel traffic into industrial increment and turning the ancient Silk Road into a two-way circular development frontier.Editor/Yang Meiling