The China-Europe train "Sichuan" set out. Photo courtesy of Chengdu International Railway Port
     
At the time when the total number of China-Europe trains in China exceeded 10,000 in 2020, the high-quality development of China-Europe trains once again entered the stage of "changing tracks and speeding up". On November 9, the China-Europe Banlie International Supply Chain Alliance was established at the third "Asia-Europe" Global Partner Conference held in Chengdu. In the future, it will innovate and develop towards deepening the operation mode of "train plus".
Statistics from China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. show that as of November 5, China-Europe trains have operated 10,180 trains this year, transporting 927,000 TEUs of containers, up 54% year-on-year, and the round-trip comprehensive container loading rate is 98.3%, reaching 21 countries and 92 cities, which has become an important support for the safe and stable operation of the international industrial chain supply chain. In order to further promote the high-quality development of China-Europe trains, representatives of international railways from all over the world, major domestic China-Europe train operators, stations, customs, freight forwarders and financial services jointly established the China-Europe International Supply Chain Alliance. The members of the alliance will carry out pragmatic cooperation in four aspects: promoting the high-quality operation of China-Europe trains, the connection of different tracks, the integration of documents and property rights, and the development of multimodal transport by land, sea and air, so as to help Chengdu, Sichuan build the most influential supply chain hub city in the Belt and Road Initiative.
"The establishment of the alliance will pool all kinds of resources and fully realize the complementary advantages of various places." Ji Shouwen, a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and a member of the National Development and Reform Commission and the expert group of multimodal transport demonstration project of the Ministry of Transport, believes that after years of development, China-Europe trains have promoted the innovation of international supply chain operation mode, and have gradually formed the "train+park" service chain, "train+industry" service chain and "train+trade" service chain. Choosing to establish an alliance in Chengdu this time will help attract international and domestic high-quality resources to gather in Chengdu, realize the linkage of internal and external resources through the mode of carrying space, industrial park, hub distribution and combination of dry and branch, and build Chengdu into a southwest demonstration center.
On the same day, representatives from 12 cities (states) including Zigong, Luzhou, Ziyang, Deyang, Guangyuan, Neijiang, Nanchong, Dazhou, Ya ‘an, Liangshan, Meishan and Suining jointly launched the "Sichuan" train in the new year to promote the construction of a new international trade pattern of "buying Sichuan and selling the whole world".
The data shows that in recent years, China-Europe Train (Chengdu) has driven the import and export trade of the province by more than 10 billion US dollars annually, serving more than 10,000 domestic and foreign enterprises, and its integration with local industries is as high as 67%. Luzhou’s liquor, Suining’s lithium battery and advanced materials, Ziyang’s automobile parts, Liangshan’s agricultural and sideline products, Zigong’s rubber products, etc. are all sources of export goods of China Europe Banlie (Chengdu). The origin of the "Sichuan" will further accelerate the development of the province’s foreign trade.
It is also known that Chengdu International Railway Port Investment and Development Co., Ltd. signed strategic cooperation agreements with Laos Moding Special Economic Zone Development Group Co., Ltd. and Yunnan Intercontinental Train Logistics Co., Ltd. on the same day, and all parties will jointly build a southbound railway intermodal channel, create an open logistics channel connecting the inland, radiating South Asia and Southeast Asia, and promote economic and trade exchanges between Sichuan, Laos and Myanmar. In the future, all parties will further build an integrated multimodal transport information platform, support and promote the docking of logistics information systems, realize the service functions of railway maintenance and inquiry, improve operational efficiency, and continuously deepen economic and trade exchanges with ASEAN. (Reporter   Chen Bihong   Chen Hao)
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