On the morning of May 18, 2021, a high-end conference on promoting the construction of the Belt and Road Interconnection was held in Langfang City. The meeting invited relevant domestic experts and senior diplomats from embassies of some countries in China to jointly discuss the promotion of Hebei Province as an important international transportation hub connecting the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to countries along the Belt and Road, and create new opportunities for enterprises to "go out" and invest in development. path.

Trade

Taitong International Transportation Co., Ltd. from Baoding is one of the participating companies. In recent years, the company has opened "Baoding-Minsk" Ji-Europe international trains, "Baoding-Kashgar-Central Asia/South Asia", "Shijiazhuang-Moscow-Minsk" and "China-ASEAN" multimodal international trains. .

Chu Xuan, Chairman of Taitong International Transportation Co., Ltd. said: "We uphold the high-quality concept of jointly building the Belt and Road and have established cooperative relations with the governments and functional departments of 16 countries along the Belt and Road." They participated in this meeting for the better. Integrate into Hebei Province to promote the interconnection of the Belt and Road Initiative, find partners, and intensify the economic and trade exchanges between the company and the countries along the Belt and Road.

Chu Xuan introduced that since 2021, the company's key provincial construction project Jingxiongbao International Smart Port has made significant progress in multimodal international trains, one-stop customs clearance, efficient warehousing and distribution, and railway line hardware and software construction. . In the first four months of 2021, Jingxiongbao International Smart Port will operate 12 international trains, including 6 China-Europe trains, sending 10,580 tons of goods, and 6 ASEAN trains, sending 10,500 tons of goods.

interconnection

At the meeting, representatives from the embassies in China of countries along the Belt and Road such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Uzbekistan made speeches. They all expressed their willingness to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with Hebei in logistics, transportation, economic and trade investment, etc., and continue to unblock the construction of interconnection with Hebei.

As an important node of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Bohai Bay, Hebei Province has actively promoted the construction of infrastructure interconnection with countries along the route in recent years. The China-Europe-Central Asia train has developed rapidly, and the operation will exceed the 100 train mark in 2020; the ASEAN multimodal train has achieved stable operation; ocean and aviation routes extend in all directions. The all-round connectivity of land, sea and air has further opened up channels for exchanges and cooperation between Hebei Province and countries along the Belt and Road.

According to Hu Shuguo, Director of the Foreign Investment Division of the Hebei Provincial Development and Reform Commission, in the next step, Hebei Province will continue to give full play to its location advantages and industrial characteristics, accurately meet the development needs of countries and regions along the Belt and Road, accelerate the construction of interconnection, and consolidate and enhance the development of China-Europe-Central Asia Express. Expand international routes, liners and trains to major sources of goods and passenger sources, maintain the smooth flow of international logistics chains, promote the orderly flow of resource elements and optimize the allocation, and create a new pattern of all-round interconnection. Editor/Tian Zengpeng