Original title: The New Western Land-Sea Corridor opens 78 new routes this year, setting a record
Recently, the Western Land-Sea Corridor trains have been launched intensively: on November 16, the China-Laos Railway (Dazhou-Vientiane) international freight trains were launched in the Western Land-Sea Corridor; The first international intermodal train.. .
“Since the beginning of this year, 78 new lines have been opened in the western land-sea corridor, which is more than five times that of last year, creating a new high in the canal’s five-year operation.” Liu Wei, director of the Western Land-Sea Corridor Logistics and Operations Organization Center, said, “In a complex situation such as the impact of the epidemic, the new Western Land-Sea Corridor has achieved a “red boom” against the trend.
The Western New Land-Sea Corridor takes Chongqing as the operation center, and the western provinces, autonomous regions and cities are the key nodes. It uses railway, sea, highway and other transportation methods to reach all parts of the world through Guangxi, Yunnan and other coastal ports. It takes less time than going to sea through the greatly shortened eastern region.
“Since this year, the channel has been expanding a number of new logistics lines between Chongqing, Guizhou, Ningxia, Gansu and other places and Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and other countries.” Liu Wei said that the channel logistics network has covered 338 countries and regions in 113 countries and regions ports.
The accelerated expansion of the canal routes resulted in a substantial increase in the volume and value of goods. According to data from the Western Land-Sea New Corridor Logistics and Operations Organization Center, in the first three quarters of this year, Chongqing transported 105,000 TEUs through the Western Land-Sea New Corridor, a year-on-year increase of 29%, and the value of goods was 19.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 46%.
The cooperation “circle of friends” is also widening. In July this year, Huaihua City, Hunan Province was integrated into the interprovincial consultation and cooperation mechanism, marking the “13+1” cooperation mechanism upgrade of the western 12 provinces, regions and autonomous municipalities, Hainan Province and Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province to the “13+2” cooperation mechanism of the new land-sea corridor in the West Build a new model.
The new western land-sea corridor is of great importance in solving the logistics problems in the western region of my country and stimulating the opening up potential in the west. In the past, Chongqing Yaopi Glass Co., Ltd. exported its products to ASEAN countries and had been troubled by the long shipment cycle for a long time. This year, with the support of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor, the problem is been easily fixed.
The responsible person of the company has calculated a bill: “The new western land-sea corridor has provided us with efficient supply chain assurance, the transportation time has been shortened from the past 32 days to 18 days, and the logistics cost is decreased decreased by 50%. The company’s export value in the first three quarters of this year increased by 45 times compared to the previous year”.
Along the Western Land-Sea New Corridor, more and more special products from the western region, such as Xinjiang melon, Guizhou black tea, Tibetan beef jerky and Chongqing twisted donuts, are entering the international market, becoming a new point of growth for local foreign trade.
“In recent years, I really feel that the concept of joint consultation, joint construction and shared benefits has been reflected more and more vividly and richly along the channel. Opportunity,” said Liu Wei.
Countries and regions along the route are also taking advantage of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor to better share my country’s market opportunities. The reporter learned that more and more Thai durian can be placed on supermarket counters in western cities such as Chongqing within 10 days by taking the Western New Land-Sea Corridor cross-border highway bus, ensuring the freshness of the fruit to the fullest extent.
“Before the opening of the New Land-Sea Corridor in the West, according to the traditional logistics route, Thai durian should first be transshipped at the local port, then arrived in China’s eastern cities by sea, and then transported to Chongqing through the domestic main line. The transshipment costs were high and the time was too long,” said Deng Hongjiu, president of Jiuguopin Co., Ltd..
On the basis of commodity trade, my country relies on the New Western Land-Sea Corridor and is exploring the construction of the “China-Cambodia Banana Industrial Park” project with Cambodia to create an integrated banana supply chain of “transport, trade and production”; for Malaysian palm oil, rubber, petroleum and other resources, promote the formation of New Land-Sea Corridor Malaysia Supply Chain Resource Center, etc.
“The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to ‘accelerate the construction of the New Western Sea-Land Corridor’. We will start from the aspects of deep integration into the joint construction of the ‘Belt and Road'”, exploring innovation of systems and rules, optimizing the organization model of logistics operations and continuously expanding the space for international cooperation. The construction of the new land-sea corridor in the west is going deep and solid,” said Ba Chuanjiang, director of the port and logistics office of the Chongqing municipal government.
