The China-Laos railway is expected to be a major shift for Laos' economy since it opened for international freight on December 3, 2021, as it will be the fastest mode of transport in the country to date. On August 19, 2022, the "Kunming City's Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting the Construction of Global Logistics Links with China-Laos Railway Registration" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") released on the official website of Kunming Municipal Government shows that Kunming will implement sound channels, smooth logistics, By 2024, the city's logistics industry channel equipment network will be further improved, the efficiency of logistics operation organization will be greatly improved, the modern logistics industry planning will be greatly improved, and the quality of foreign trade planning will be steadily improved. Among them, the total revenue of the city's logistics industry is striving to double in three years, exceeding 500 billion yuan, with an average annual increase of 41%, accounting for 50% of the province's total logistics industry revenue.

3 access center links will be built

Through the implementation of four major actions, by 2024, Kunming will strive to complete the construction of a national logistics link for business and trade services, and obtain approval for a national logistics link of dry port type and airport type; complete the normalized and planned operation of the China-Laos Railway, and the world's freight trains will run 1,000 times a year. Listed above; the main railway freight station in the city has an annual collection of no less than 7 million tons of goods; the city's foreign trade import and export plan strives to double in three years, exceeding 300 billion yuan, with an average annual increase of 26%; the average annual increase in service transactions is more than 12.5% ; Added 1 national-level foreign trade transformation base and 1 provincial-level foreign trade transformation base.

The "Plan" proposes to improve the Unicom network and improve the channel capacity. Kunming will lay out the construction of national bonds, improve the transportation capacity of railway trunk lines, and make up for the "shortcomings" of multimodal transport. Among them, Kunming will build three channel center links "serving the whole province, accepting domestic, radiating South Asia and Southeast Asia", that is, relying on the Wangjiaying Kundong railway link in the Economic and Technological Development Zone to link the Tengjun World Land Port in Jinning District to build a business service-oriented country Logistics link; relying on the Kunxi railway link of Anning Taohua Village to radiate the world's bulk industrial products base, build a dry port-type national logistics link; relying on Kunming Changshui World Airport, Airport Logistics Park, Kunming Comprehensive Bonded Zone to develop and deploy an airport-type country Logistics link, to create a world aviation logistics link for South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Speed up the formation of 5 logistics clusters

The "Plan" is clear, the smooth project is implemented, and the logistics system is improved. Kunming will speed up the formation of 5 logistics clusters, improve the cross-border logistics system, and improve the level of convenient customs clearance. Specifically, Kunming will build the Wangjiaying logistics cluster in the Economic Development Zone, the Anning Taohua Village-Caopu logistics cluster, the Jinning Qingshan logistics cluster, the Songming Yanglin logistics cluster (linked to the construction of the Tiantianqiao area in Xundian in the future), The airport logistics cluster area in the airport economic zone leads the city's logistics industry cluster development, and constitutes a logistics cluster area with complementary functions, different emphases and characteristics.

The "Plan" proposes to promote the connection of transactions and improve the allocation level. Kunming will expand the product trading plan, vigorously develop service trading, and promote the innovation of trading formats. Among them, Kunming will rely on the China-Laos railway channel and advantageous resources along the route and the needs of domestic and foreign shopping malls to accelerate the layout and construction of a regional world commodity distribution, processing and trading center, including non-ferrous metals, building materials, etc.; Railway freight trains; explore the development of new cross-border barter transactions, offshore transactions, "bonded +" and other business models, and promote the integration and development of traditional foreign trade and new business formats and new models.

In terms of industrial drive, in addition to actively accepting industrial transfer, the "Plan" proposes to promote cross-border production capacity cooperation, including building a cross-border industrial cooperation demonstration zone, increasing support for overseas parks, and promoting the implementation of "heavy property investment and operation" and "" "Light property management output" model innovation, etc.

In order to ensure the achievement of the above-mentioned policies, the "Plan" not only clarifies the specific functional departments of various work measures, but also formulates the Kunming municipal-level China-Laos World Freight Award and Subsidy Fund Policy to specifically support the construction of the China-Laos World Freight Collection Center and the development of China-Laos Freight Forwarding. The train runs smoothly; formulate policies to attract professionals in logistics, trading, and industry, etc. Editor / Xu Shengpeng