In China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., a special logo is treasured. It is mainly shaped by Mercedes-Benz trains and fluttering silk, and the Chinese Railway emblem and English letters of express trains are solemn and eye-catching. As the official logo launched after the unified brand of China Railway Express, it has witnessed the vigorous vitality of the joint construction of the Belt and Road in the new era.

On June 8, 2016, at 9 am, Chongqing, Chengdu, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Suzhou, Dongguan, Yiwu. Accompanied by the loud and clear siren, the newly refurbished China Railway Express set off in eight cities at the same time. On this day, China Railway officially launched the unified brand of China-Europe Railway Express. On the blue container, the new logo with Chinese red as the main color is solemn and majestic under the sunshine. Fully loaded with goods, it also bears the brand image of China-Europe Railway Express, which is prudent, honest, tolerant, responsible and powerful. This steel camel caravan on the Silk Road has a brand-new look and goes to a distant place.

Less than two weeks later, the China Railway Express of the same brand departing from Chengdu arrived in Warsaw, Poland first. At the ceremony for the first arrival of the unified brand China Railway Express to Europe (Poland), Xu Liyun, director of the International Transport Department of China Railway Container Transport Co., Ltd., greeted the arrival of the train with mixed feelings.

Xu Liyun said that the China Railway Express with a unified logo slowly entered the platform. When he saw this scene, he felt very excited, which indicated that the China Railway Express had entered the fast lane. As a member of the operation team of China Railway Express, I feel very proud and proud, and at the same time feel the mission and responsibility.

Unified brand China Railway Express arrives in Poland for the first time

In 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative was officially proposed. Relying on the New Eurasian Continental Bridge and the Siberia Continental Bridge, China Railway started from Chongqing, Chengdu, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Suzhou, Yiwu and other cities on the basis of exploring the operation of Asia-Europe international trains in the early stage. , opened the China-Europe Railway Express to Germany, Poland and other countries, thus opening the curtain of the China-Europe Railway Express connecting the Eurasian continent and promoting the development of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Wang Ming, director of the Comprehensive Transportation Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission: "The most suitable goods for the China-Europe Railway Express are small-batch, multi-batch, high-value, and time-sensitive goods. What are the operating characteristics of small-batch and multi-batch operations? What? A large number of small and medium-sized enterprises participated in it.”

On December 7, 2022, Jinhua, Zhejiang, the Yixin Europe China Railway Express with a full load of 100 TEUs departs from Yiwu Railway Port

Among the various routes of the China-Europe Railway Express, the "Yixinou" China-Europe Railway Express, which starts from Yiwu, Zhejiang, passes through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and France, and finally arrives at Madrid, the capital of Spain, has the longest transportation mileage. The small and medium-sized enterprises in Yiwu are one of the most active participants in the China Railway Express. Using the China Railway Express, the transportation time from China to Europe is half that of sea transportation, and the transportation cost is a quarter of that of air transportation. Zhang Xuefeng, the person in charge of a local trading company, knows all about the bonuses.

Zhang Xuefeng: The addition of Yixinou can compress our time as a whole. If it is shipped by sea, it takes about 60 days for Spain and Portugal, but if I use "Yixinou", it only takes 28 days to arrive, which can excellently promote (meet) the requirements of the supply chain.

Uniform logo of China Railway Express

The China-Europe Railway Express not only makes Chinese manufacturing shine in Europe, but also allows European companies to set their sights on the Chinese market. "Doing business with China and doing business in China" has become a trend. Yannick, head of a logistics company in the EU, has experienced these changes firsthand. In order to meet the growing needs of customers, his company has continued to expand in just a few years after its establishment, and has set up offices in Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing and other cities where the China Railway Express starts.

Yannick: "We have a good sense of the opportunity. The China Railway Express is a good opportunity for us to get a good position in the market. We have heard that the connection of the train will increase and the running time will be shortened. We must follow the train column development and maintain our market position.”

Envoys meet each other on the road, and business travelers are always on the way. The prosperous scene on the ancient Silk Road in the past is reinterpreted by the galloping China-Europe Railway Express, and it is not only the commodity markets of the countries along the route that lead to the golden bond of interconnection.

China Railway Express Coordination Committee Established

In 2015, China released the "Vision and Actions to Promote the Joint Construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road", clearly proposing to build the brand of China-Europe Railway Express; in 2016, the unified brand of China-Europe Railway Express was officially launched; in 2017, in Driven by the initiative of China Railway, my country and Belarus, Germany, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Poland, and Russia have established a China-Europe freight train joint working group. This is the first international railway cooperation mechanism initiated by China Railway in history. Zhang Ran, Manager of the China Railway Express Department of China Railway International Multimodal Transport Co., Ltd., was deeply impressed by the exchanges with counterparts from various countries.

Zhang Ran believes that the railway departments of the seven countries meet regularly, negotiate together, and promote the unification of service standards and information platforms. The counterparts at home and abroad all attach great importance to the business of China Railway Express, such as Poland, Germany, and some counterparts in the Czech Republic. After starting the China Railway Express business, the whole society participated a lot, and it became very busy all at once.

Special box for China Railway Express

From 2015, when the cumulative number of trains opened exceeded 1,000, to now, the annual number of trains opened has exceeded 10,000. The China Railway Express has achieved leapfrog development amidst the fast-moving wind on the rumbling railroad tracks. During the epidemic, relying on safe and stable operation, the China-Europe Railway Express has grown against the trend, making outstanding contributions to stabilizing the international industrial chain supply chain and boosting international anti-epidemic cooperation.

Just over a month ago, the first China-Europe Railway Express from Xi'an arrived in Germany, which marked the first time that the China-Europe Railway Express operating timetables for the Chinese section, the broad-gauge section, and the European section were fully connected. The transportation time has more stable expectations, and the high-quality development of China Railway Express has entered a new stage. The engine of the China Railway Express is running day and night, and the pace of cooperation along the Belt and Road will continue to move forward!

Wang Yanbo pointed out that he is Wang Yanbo, a senior engineer of the Freight Department of China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. In the past 9 years, the joint construction of the Belt and Road has grown from a dream seed to a luxuriant tree, and the China-Europe Railway Express has also developed from a line to a network, from a single branch to a hundred flowers. At present, China Railway Express is still in a period of important strategic opportunities. We will continue to join hands with countries along the route to jointly build prosperity trains, digital trains, green trains, and people-to-people trains, so that the fruits of China-Europe trains can benefit more people and contribute new strengths to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. Editor/He Yuting