At the beginning of the new year, a piece of good news, like wings, soon spread to every household. The China-Europe Express train runs to and from Mercedes-Benz Alashankou and Horgos Port, running out of an upward curve-Xinjiang's inbound and outbound China-Europe (Central Asia) Express train breaks through 9,779, a record high; Xinjiang’s single-day loading exceeds 10,600 vehicles and 60.8 10,000 tons; the annual freight volume in 2020 will be 174.8 million tons, an increase of 15.1% year-on-year.

In-depth cooperation, through the whole process of logistics opening up upstream and downstream

Due to poor short-distance transfers, transportation obstructions and the test of the epidemic, the coal transportation volume of Henan Energy Chemical Group Xinjiang Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. bucked the trend and the completed shipment volume was 2.064 million tons, an increase of 67.8% year-on-year.

"The railway's multi-party coordination and transportation capacity support ensure production and operation." said Lu Muxiao, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and deputy general manager of the company. With the continuous advancement of the national "Railway to Railway" policy, the railway and its customers have implemented mutual guarantees for quantity and price, which has promoted in-depth cooperation between the two parties.

"By signing a strategic customer agreement, we can accurately grasp the customers' annual transportation needs, and be able to implement a "game of chess" precise service and rationally allocate transportation capacity." said Li Xing, deputy director of the freight department of China Railway Urumqi Bureau Group Co., Ltd.

While mastering the "basic disk" of the supply of goods, the Xinjiang Railway Department has extended its service reach and dispatched customer representatives to key enterprises to dynamically understand the production situation and transportation plans of the enterprises, coordinate and solve the problems in transportation, and ensure that there are cars when there are goods. Vehicles can be transported immediately, ensuring the smooth flow of large passages under the new situation of normalized epidemic prevention and control.

Li Xing said: "On the one hand, we play a role in coordinating upstream and downstream enterprises to help customers find sales channels; on the other hand, we support customers in car short-distance transportation and loading and unloading manpower equipment to achieve a win-win situation for the three parties."

Customer feedback is the best proof. On December 25, 2020, Xinjiang Railway signed a 2021 cooperation agreement with 31 strategic customers, with an agreed transport volume of 143 million tons, an increase of 20 million tons year-on-year.

Improve efficiency, precise scheduling helps double loop

At 11 o'clock on December 30, 2020, a 2011 China-Europe Express train with 41 vehicles full of family cars and accessories departed from Alashankou Station, honking its whistle, and headed to Malašević, Poland, marking the entry and exit of Central Europe at Alashankou Station. The number of trains in Asia) exceeded 5,000 for the first time in the year.

In 2020, the Xinjiang Railway Department will increase hardware investment, implement capacity expansion and reconstruction of Alashankou and Horgos stations, give full play to the advantages of the golden channel of China-Kazakhstan railway international combined transportation, optimize transportation organization, and improve the efficiency of customs clearance. The number of China-Europe (Central Asia) lines has risen against the trend. As of December 31, 2020, the number of China-Europe (Central Asia) trains via Alashankou Station reached 5,027, a year-on-year increase of 41.8%; the Khorgos port in and out of Central Europe ( (Central Asia) class trains reached 4652, a year-on-year increase of 37%.

In the face of various emergencies in 2020, Xinjiang Railway and key enterprises have implemented in-depth "revolutionary transfer" and "distributed to centralized" transportation to ensure the stability of the industrial chain supply chain, and help build a domestic large cycle as the main body and a domestic and international dual cycle to promote each other New development pattern.

A 10,000-ton train is like a long dragon, slowly pulling out of the ring line, and the second train of 100 empty cars enters the ring line for loading. "We have inserted a mobile stop sign to divide the section, so that the ring line can be continuously loaded, and the 10,000-ton train can be run normally." Liu Dong, the station director of Jiangjunmiao East Station, introduced.

From 3 trains to 22 trains in one day, although the Jiangjunmiao East Station of Wuzhun Railway is only a fourth-class station, the points are mostly scattered. From Jiangjunmiao East Station, Jiang No. 2 Mine Loading Station, Beishan North Station, Jingou Station, Hong Kong Six stations including Shaquan Station and Beishan Station are responsible for nearly one-tenth of the daily loading tasks of Xinjiang Railway.

The Xinjiang Railway Department implements precise dispatch and command, optimizes the transportation organization process, popularizes 5,000-ton traction quotas on 11 lines within its management, runs 100- and 10,000-ton trains in a normal manner, and realizes direct connections between road enterprises at 26 stations and 53 dedicated lines. Organizing general-speed passenger cars to board high-speed trains and promoting passenger cars to speed up, fully releasing the capacity of freight channels, ensuring the transportation of thermal coal and livelihood coal, and the steady growth of bulk cargo such as coal, metal ore, fertilizer, and cotton.

Transportation within Xinjiang has increased rapidly, and transportation outside Xinjiang has increased. According to the relevant person in charge of the dispatching office of China Railway Urumqi Bureau Group Co., Ltd., the current number of direct trains to the mainland is about 15 per day. At the same time, Wuxi, Hami East, Korla and other hubs have strengthened the organization of through trains and reduced shunting operations. Among them, the proportion of through trains at Wuxi Station has continued to remain above 25%.

Upgrade and expand capacity, weave a dense logistics network

Xinjiang’s railway department focuses on the whole Xinjiang and promotes the construction of logistics bases. The 13 logistics bases including Aksu and Karamay are renovated and expanded, and the quasi-northeast Xinjiang Yihua, Kuxi Futeng, Wuwu New Town, and Runyuan Changsheng have been accelerated. The construction of special railway lines extends the service chain.

In Shihezi, with the completion and commissioning of two new railway loading and unloading lines, the cargo transportation capacity of Tianye Railway Special Line has been greatly improved. Yan Jian, deputy general manager of Xinjiang Tianye (Group) Co., Ltd., said: “Tianye (Group) special railway lines not only meet the needs of enterprises themselves, but also transport 5.6 million tons of goods for other enterprises around Shihezi this year, an increase of 115% over the same period last year."

Fuyun County in the Altay region has rich mineral resources. Long-term transportation by road has hidden traffic safety hazards and high transportation costs for enterprises. The opening of the A-Fuzun Railway has opened a convenient channel for the export of metal ore in Fuyun County. Chang Kun, deputy manager of Zhundong Business Department of Urumqi Freight Center, said: "The average daily shipping volume of Fuyun Station's freight yard is about four rows. At present, Fuyun Freight Yard is undergoing expansion and transformation, which will greatly improve the shipping capacity of containers."

For the whole year of 2020, Fuyun has shipped 4.8 million tons of metal ore, an increase of 1.8 million tons over the planned volume for the whole year.

The Gekko Railway, which opened on December 9, 2020, crosses the Altun Mountains, putting the "ladder" on the plateau. The adsorption effect of the southern passage of the Xinjiang Railway is rapidly emerging. Cao Zhihong, deputy general manager of Sinopec Xinjiang Petroleum Branch, said: "After the opening of the Geku Railway, refined oil will be transported from Kuqa to Golmud, shortening the transportation distance by 800 kilometers. Compared with road transportation, the cost is reduced by about 41%."

The potash fertilizer from Qinghai Salt Lake is transported to Kuqa, southern Xinjiang for processing into compound fertilizer. Xinjiang's refined oil, steel, glass, flour and other cargoes were shipped to Qinghai and Tibet, realizing the complementary resources of the western provinces and regions. The Gekku Railway was opened less than a month, and the freight volume has exceeded 300,000 tons.

The camel bells on the ancient silk road were long, and now the whistle rang. The China-Europe Express, known as the "Steel Camel Team", contributes to the high-quality development of Xinjiang, the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt. Editor/Sang Xiaomei