China-Europe Express has a strong momentum in China and Europe. In the past five years of unifying the brand, it has opened more than 40,000 trains with a total value of more than 200 billion US dollars. It has opened 73 operating routes, reaching 168 cities in 23 European countries, and serving tens of thousands of Chinese and foreign companies. It has brought business opportunities, brought benefits to hundreds of millions of people along the route, and demonstrated its status and role as an international public product.

A bridge link for mutual benefit and win-win

"In the five years since the unified brand, the China-Europe train (Zhengzhou) has an average annual growth rate of 45.5%. Zhengzhou-Europe import stores have opened more than 100 in China, with 630 imported goods and annual sales of more than 1 billion yuan, which has stimulated trade and packaging. There are tens of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises in the industrial chain of advertising and transportation, forming a benign development pattern of industry complementarity of "transportation with trade and trade promotion"." According to the person in charge of the Port Office of the Henan Provincial Government, since 2016, relying on China-Europe Express , Henan and 17 countries along the One Belt One Road, including Belarus, Germany, Belgium, and other 17 countries have established import commodity trade cooperation, and carried out 492 tours of Zheng-Europe imported commodities into counties and districts and into communities, which effectively boosted the upgrading of domestic consumption.

Henan is just an epitome of achieving mutual benefit and win-win results by relying on China-Europe trains. According to data from the China Development and Reform Commission, the value of goods carried by China-Europe freight trains has increased year by year, from 1% in 2015 to 7% in 2020. Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, China-Europe Express has shipped 11.99 million pieces and 94,000 tons of anti-epidemic materials to Europe.

In Chengdu, Sichuan, the comprehensive heavy container rate of China-Europe trains has increased to 96.3% in 2020, and the source of goods has expanded from electronic products such as mobile phones and computers to more than 40 categories such as clothes, shoes, hats, automobiles and accessories.

"Relying on the China-Europe Express, we have shipped a total of 25,000 tons of anti-epidemic materials to Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries with a value of about 300 million US dollars." Zheng Quanfeng, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Chengdu International Railway Port, introduced, China-Europe Express and Cross-border Express The integrated development of e-commerce platforms, logistics platforms, bonded platforms, and free trade pilot zones promotes the "going out" of Chinese products and the "coming in" of products from other countries. In 2020, Sichuan’s imports and exports to countries and regions along the Belt and Road reached 245.49 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24%.

New Asian-European Transportation Channel

The frequency of operation has been increased from 5 shifts per week to 7 shifts per day; the types of goods have changed from serving the information technology industry at the beginning to now covering thousands of products such as smart terminals, automobiles and parts, high-end medical drugs and equipment..." The domestic and overseas distribution network of China-Europe freight trains is accelerating market-oriented expansion." According to Dong Jianguo, director of Chongqing Development and Reform Commission, Chongqing has 31 mature China-Europe freight trains covering more than 40 cities in 26 countries in Asia and Europe.

Behind the accelerated expansion of the operating network, the China-Europe Express train opened a new chapter in Asia-Europe-Europe transportation. The China-Europe Express has built a new all-weather, large-volume, green and low-carbon land transportation channel. It is a major innovation in the international transportation service system, which effectively guarantees the stability of the global industrial chain supply chain and promotes the accelerated improvement of international land transportation rules.

Improve overseas warehouses and enhance overseas distribution and distribution capabilities. In 2017, through the overall acquisition of a 6000 square meter warehouse in Duisburg, Germany and put it into operation, China-Europe Express (Chongqing) became the first China-Europe Express (Chongqing) to have independent property rights overseas warehouses, and to strengthen overseas cooperation with Russia, Belarus and Hungary. Warehousing service cooperation, choose opportunities to develop other overseas regions according to customer needs. Up to now, Chongqing, Wuhan, Zhengzhou and many other places have promoted the construction of overseas hubs, distribution centers and overseas warehouses, which have continuously strengthened the overseas distribution and distribution capabilities of China-Europe Express.

Build a railway port and innovate the operation and organization model. In order to promote the high-quality operation of China-Europe freight trains, Sichuan strives to improve the port functions of the railway port hub, and builds a “one-window” public information platform that integrates information collection, data interaction, and real-time monitoring by building a “smart dry port” , And created the first China-Europe freight train collection and consolidation model in China to reduce the overall logistics cost of overseas freight by 5% to 10%. Xinjiang has innovated measures to facilitate customs clearance of China-Europe trains, opened a 24-hour green channel, and realized information sharing and paperless customs clearance between customs and railway departments. The exit clearance time at railway ports was reduced to less than 4 hours, and the entry clearance time was reduced to less than 18 hours. This ensures the efficient and smooth passage of China-Europe trains.

Optimize the "one-order system" and enrich the service functions of the train. Relying on the China-Europe train to carry out the "rail +" multimodal transport "one-order" reform, Chengdu International Railway Port took the lead in China to issue a unified standard multimodal transport bill of lading with the nature of the property certificate, so that the transport documents have trade settlement With the financing function, over 8,000 bills of lading have been issued in total, and the financing amount has exceeded 500 million yuan.

Rapid economic development of countries along the route

On February 3, 2021, the X9020 China-Europe Express (Xi'an) New Year's return line with 49 carts of flour and edible oil arrived in Xi'an. This is the first China-Europe Express (Xi'an) New Year's Return Express to Xi'an after departing from Kazakhstan in 2021. It is also a high-quality agricultural product that Aiju Group "goes out" and "sends back".

Relying on the China-Europe train, Aiju Group invested and built a factory in Kazakhstan, which became an agricultural project of China-Kazakhstan capacity cooperation, and established long-term cooperative relations with local farmers through the "order farming" model. The group has also built a comprehensive bonded zone agricultural product logistics processing park in Alashankou to carry the functions of intensive processing and distribution and transfer. It has also built an agricultural product logistics processing park in Xi’an International Port Area, which has initially established a grain and oil planting, storage, processing, trade and logistics. "One-stop" system. "Leveraging on the China-Europe train, we can make better use of both domestic and international markets and resources." said Liu Dongmeng, deputy general manager of Aiju Grain and Oil Industry Group.

The growth of Aiju Group is just a microcosm of the pulling effect of China-Europe Express. In the past five years, the China-Europe Express has promoted the prosperity and development of port economy and hub economy, opened up new space for inland cities to open up to the outside world, and accelerated the cross-border circulation of factor resources, lowered production costs of enterprises, and improved the international competitiveness of products.

The China-Europe Express train has allowed the supply and demand sides to get a better connection. In the future, China-Europe Express will certainly play an important role in building a new development pattern and contribute to the formation of a high-quality and sustainable domestic and international dual cycle of railway power. Editor/Tian Zengpeng