Up to now, China-Europe trains have operated more than 57,000 trains, reaching 196 cities in 24 European countries. As a representative brand of the Belt and Road Initiative, China Railway Express has been very popular internationally since its launch.

Open up new international channels

Up to now, China-Europe freight trains have laid out 82 transportation routes, reaching 196 cities in 24 European countries. The transportation service network covers the whole of Europe, forming an international transportation artery that runs through the Eurasian continent.

"The opening of the China-Europe freight train has improved the Asia-Europe land transportation network, expanded the international intermodal transportation channel, greatly improved the capabilities of ports and hub nodes along the line, formed a spatial layout of multi-directional extension and sea-land interconnection, and created a new international logistics and transportation cooperation. situation." said Xu Jianping, director of the opening department of the National Development and Reform Commission.

Relying on the New Eurasian Continental Bridge and the Siberian Continental Bridge, China Railway, based on the early exploration of the opening of Asia-Europe international trains, starts from Chongqing, Chengdu, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Suzhou, Yiwu and other cities, and runs to Germany, Poland and other countries China Railway Express.

On June 8, 2016, the unified brand of China Railway Express was officially launched. With the joint efforts of all parties, the China-Europe freight train has entered a stage of standardized and large-scale development, and the quality of its operations has been continuously improved.

From 2016 to 2019, the number of China-Europe trains increased from 1,702 to 8,225, an increase of nearly five times in three years. In 2020, the number of openings will exceed 10,000, reaching 12,406, and in 2021, it will reach 15,183. Zhuang He, director of the freight department of China National Railway Group, said.

Strengthen economic and trade cooperation along the route

Up to now, China-Europe trains have operated more than 57,000 trains, transporting 5.3 million TEUs of goods, with a heavy container rate of 98.3% and a cumulative value of nearly 300 billion US dollars. The categories of transported goods have gradually expanded from mobile phones, computers and other IT products in the early days of the bank to clothing, shoes and hats, automobiles and accessories, grain, wine, coffee beans, wood and other 53 categories and more than 50,000 varieties.

"The export-oriented industries in Zhengzhou, Chongqing and other cities in Henan, China have achieved an average annual growth rate of about 30% after the China-Europe Railway Express. High-quality construction in the core area of the road. With the development of China-Europe freight trains in cities such as Lodz in Poland and Duisburg in Germany, the status of international logistics hubs has been continuously improved. Locally produced special products are sold to China in large quantities by China-Europe freight trains." .

"After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, China-Europe trains have given full play to the advantages of sectional transportation and less personnel contact in international railway transport, and fully undertake the transfer of goods by sea and air, effectively ensuring the stability of the international industrial chain and supply chain." Xu Jianping said that the domestic China-Europe trains The train operation platform actively meets the export needs of enterprises, and cooperates with a large number of enterprises to launch customized trains, which effectively reduces the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic on the stability of the international industrial chain and supply chain.

Support the development of new and new models

Regarding how to promote the future development of the China Railway Express, Xu Jianping said that he will focus on the theme of high-quality development, and coordinate the work in five areas around "consolidation, stability and improvement", including strengthening the facility guarantee capabilities of the China Railway Express, improving the quality and efficiency of the China Railway Express, and innovation. The operation management and development model of China-Europe freight trains, the establishment of an international cooperation network for China-Europe freight trains, and the strengthening of risk prevention and control of China-Europe freight trains.

"We will focus on the bottleneck sections and congested ports, actively promote the upgrading of the bottleneck sections of the China-Europe freight train and the capacity expansion and reconstruction of key port stations, and actively expand new operating channels with Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, West Asia and other countries. Continue to optimize the domestic layout of the China-Europe freight train assembly center, accelerate the transformation of China-Europe freight trains from point-to-point to hub-to-hub, and further promote the construction of the China-Europe freight train intergovernmental cooperation mechanism between China and the countries along the route." Xu Jianping said.

Zhuang He said that in terms of the cultivation and development of the South Corridor, it will further strengthen international cooperation with railways, ports, shipping and other enterprises in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and other countries, and promote the development of multimodal transport such as rail-road combined transport and rail-sea combined transport. Jointly promote the improvement of the timeliness, stability and economy of transportation in the South Corridor, and support domestic cities to expand the scale of China-Europe freight trains via the South Corridor.

Xia Jun, deputy director of the Supervision Department of the General Administration of Customs, said that the customs will actively strengthen cooperation with railway, postal and other departments for new formats and new models such as "China Railway Express + Cross-border E-commerce" and "China Railway Express + International Mail". , to improve the informatization level of China-Europe Railway Express, support relevant cities to carry out China-Europe Railway Express transportation and postal testing under the premise of meeting regulatory conditions, encourage and guide more enterprises to participate in the cross-border e-commerce commodity transportation of China-Europe Railway Express, and support the development of new formats and new models.Editor/Ma Xue