On May 11, 2021, at the Yingshuiqiao Freight Center in Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, with a launch order, the "Western Land-Sea New Corridor" Ningxia train started its engine and honked its whistle. It marks the official operation of the Ningxia train, which marks a solid step taken by Ningxia to integrate into the "new western land-sea channel" and implement the "southern opening strategy".

The new land-sea corridor in the west is connected to the Silk Road Economic Belt in the north, the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road in the south, and the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Strategic Position. Ningxia attaches great importance to the construction of the new land-sea channel in the west, and has always taken it as a major open development measure to deepen the interconnection and market docking with domestic southwestern provinces and Southeast Asian countries, and deeply integrate into the domestic and international dual-cycle development pattern. It has actively joined the new land-sea channel "13+" 1" cooperation mechanism, actively participated in various trade promotion and logistics docking activities, promoted the establishment of the land-sea new channel operation Ningxia Co., Ltd., and relying on the comprehensive transportation advantages of Zhongwei railway, highway, and airport, and the cities along the land-sea new channel, cities and counties in Ningxia In-depth cooperation with cities and counties in neighboring regions to build the new land-sea corridor into a service for the development of logistics and supply chain industries in the surrounding areas centered on Zhongwei, promote the fast lane of Ningxia's economic development, and promote the domestic and international dual-cycle stable trade channel.

Ningxia southbound train

According to reports, this first southbound train carries 45 sets of cargo, 90 20-foot containers, with a cargo value of about 6 million yuan and a cargo weight of about 2500 tons. The main goods include methionine sent from Ningxia to overseas countries such as Cambodia in Southeast Asia and Georgia in Europe, stone slabs sent from Inner Mongolia to Chongqing and Sichuan, and wheat from Gansu to markets along the new land-sea corridor such as Guangxi. Total logistics has created more than 30 cargo transportation categories in Zhongwei-Chongqing-Guangxi-Southeast Asia and other places, two-way "one-vote system", "door-to-door" and "door-to-port" operation mode, which is nearly 10 times shorter than traditional shipping methods. -15 days of transportation time and 30% reduction of logistics costs in the Chongqing-Guangxi section, providing practical solutions for enterprises in Ningxia and surrounding areas to integrate into the new western land and sea channels, enjoy preferential policies from provinces and cities along the way, reduce logistics costs, and save transportation time .

With the normal operation of the trains, Ningxia has been linked with neighboring provinces and cities, superimposed on policies, and distributed, and gradually realized policy communication, road connectivity, unimpeded trade, and people-to-people connections with the provinces and cities along the route and countries along the route, and expanded the service scope of the new western land-sea channel. , An organically connected complex opening to the outside world along the Belt and Road, promote high-quality development of the regional economy, and build a new pattern of all-round opening up. Editor/Tian Zengpeng