On the morning of October 8, 2026, on the international land port platform in Fangshan, Beijing, the sound of steam whistle pierced the first ray of morning light after the holiday. The China Europe freight train, loaded with car parts and precision machinery, slowly started, and the sound of wheels rolling over the steel rails marked the beginning of the 100 international trains for Beijing International Land Port. Starting from the first Central Asian freight train sounding its horn in March 2025, in less than 20 months, this capital's only international land hub has achieved the opening acceleration of a hundred freight trains.

From waiting for the car to ship to scheduling production according to the schedule

In April 2026, the TuDing Central Asia freight train was launched, and in July of the same year, the TuDing Central Europe freight train followed suit, fully implementing the dual line TuDing operation pattern. The rigid schedule with a fixed departure time of every Thursday has made the days when companies chased after cabin space a thing of the past. Combined with the flexible supplement of temporary trains, the stable monthly capacity of 10 trains has minimized the uncertainty of cross-border logistics.

In many production workshops of Beijing manufacturing enterprises, the departure date of the train is directly marked on the production schedule, and the rhythm of raw materials entering the factory and finished products leaving the warehouse is perfectly aligned with the train schedule. In the summer of 2026, the coastal areas experienced multiple rounds of typhoon weather, causing several ports to temporarily shut down. However, the trains from Beijing International Land Port were dispatched on time, without delaying the delivery of a single overseas order, helping many companies maintain the trust of their long-term accumulated overseas customers.

The sea outlet at our doorstep relies on intelligent manufacturing to go out to sea

On the earliest trains departing from land ports, many daily light industrial products can still be seen. Nowadays, almost all the containers are high value-added products labeled with Beijing Smart Manufacturing. Precision machinery, gears, automotive parts, chips, high-end equipment, circuit boards, and goods that used to have to be transported thousands of miles away for transit can now be directly transported to cross-border trains from the factory area in southern Beijing, just over ten kilometers away by road.

The transportation path of local lubricant companies has been completely rewritten, with finished products directly loaded onto trucks from the filling line, without the need to detour to other places for transfer. They can travel all the way west to the terminal markets in Central Asia and Europe, reducing the logistics cost of a single trip by nearly 20%. In the first half of 2026, Beijing's exports reached a historic high of 313.3 billion yuan. These 100 steel camel caravans are the most solid land route for the capital's intelligent manufacturing to enter the Asia Europe market. Keywords: Land Port, International Land Port

The figure of the train gradually disappeared at the end of the track, and at the new starting point of the 100th train, more goods with Beijing's intelligent manufacturing label were following this steel channel towards the broader Eurasian continent.Editor/Cheng Liting