Whistling to and from Europe, Asia and Anhui, the goods sailed to the world. —— Hefei China-Europe train helps build a new pattern of inland open economy.

With a long whistle, at 9: 00 a.m. on December 31st, a special train from China to Europe loaded with 100 TEUs of Anhui native goods departed from Hefei North Railway Station. This train will leave the country through Horgos port and sail to Port William, Germany, marking the successful conclusion of Hefei-China Europe train in 2021 with 668 trains, a net increase of 100 trains compared with last year's whole-year shipment, reaching a new level.

As an important starting point to implement the "the belt and road initiative" initiative in Anhui Province, Hefei Central Europe Train has maintained a rapid development momentum since its launch in 2014. At the end of 2017, the municipal party committee and government reorganized Banlie Platform Company and established Hefei International Inland Port Development Co., Ltd. to accelerate the coordinated operation and market-oriented operation capability of Hefei Central Europe Banlie Operation Platform. Hefei China-Europe trains take railway transportation and international freight transportation as the bridge, expand the open channel, make an excellent open platform, and strengthen the open industry, and walk out of a characteristic road of "high-quality development, high-quality lines, serving the open economy, shaping Hefei characteristics, and striving to build a national-level China-Europe train assembly center".

Strong train scale expansion line network

Hefei-China-Europe trains implement five international scheduled trains, that is, fixed point, fixed route, scheduled train number, timing and pricing, and the transit time is stable and controllable. The scale of operation has increased from less than 200 trains in the original three years to 668 trains in 2021, and the frequency of operation has increased from 1~2 trains per month to 12~15 trains per week now. The service range has increased from 5% and 10% localization rate in Hefei and Anhui to 30% and 65% now, realizing the transformation from "quantity accumulation" to "qualitative leap". Over the years, the cumulative shipment of trains in Hefei between China and Europe has exceeded 2,000 trains, and the sea-rail combined transport has delivered over 130,000 TEUs, realizing the import and export trade volume of nearly 10 billion US dollars.

In recent years, Hefei-China-Europe train has continuously strengthened its coverage of the EU market, Central Asia, West Asia and Siberia, realized the full-line connection of five major ports, such as Erenhot and Alashankou, and built a multi-line, multi-port, strong linkage and high coverage international logistics channel. By the end of 2021, it has reached 15 countries including Germany, Russia and France, and 61 international sites including Hamburg and Helsinki, basically achieving full coverage of Europe. Especially since the beginning of this year, two new public trains with normal operation have been added, namely Hefei via Erenhot to Helsinki, Finland, and Hefei via Manzhouli to Vorsino, Russia. Five countries including Kiev, Ukraine and Prague, Czech Republic, and 26 international sites were added.

On the afternoon of December 30th, a "China-Laos Railway (Hefei-Vientiane) international freight train" loaded with Anhui local goods whistled from Hefei North Station, leaving the country through Mohan Port in Yunnan, and finally reaching Vientiane, Laos. This is the first international freight train in Anhui after the China-Laos railway runs through, and it is also a fast channel for Anhui goods to be exported to Southeast Asia. The year 2021 will mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Laos. The opening of the "China-Laos Railway (Hefei-Vientiane) International Freight Train" is a powerful measure for Hefei land port to seize the policy opportunity of RCEP Agreement, and it is also an important symbol that the operation network has extended to Southeast Asia for the first time.

Improve the service quality and ensure the transportation of goods in Anhui Province

With the promotion of the idea of "one game of chess" in the whole province, land port, Hefei, has innovated the marketing model of "sitting in business and becoming a businessman", adhered to the overall orientation of "based on Hefei, serving Anhui and radiating the Yangtze River Delta", and successively opened inter-city directional trains such as "+Fuyang", "+Wuhu",+Xuancheng "and+Huangshan", etc., which have covered 16 cities in the province. Optimize the whole process of "station to station" and "door to door", nanny-style and customized services. More than 200 customized trains for enterprises such as Jianghuai, Chery, Midea and Meiling have been run, and the localization rate of Anhui enterprises has reached over 65%, effectively serving local enterprises to go global and promoting the "Anhui freight transportation".

Especially in 2021, Hefei land port will join hands with cities and cities to create "Hefei Central Europe Train+Huangshan", which will make Hefei Central Europe Train "Land Silk Road" join hands with Huangshan green tea, opening up a brand-new land logistics channel for Huangshan tea export, which will further promote the export, transformation and upgrading of tea industry, accelerate the integration of "Wanli Tea Ceremony" into "the belt and road initiative", and launch the Central Europe Train with unique Anhui characteristics.

Since 2021, affected by the sharp increase of sea freight, foreign trade import and export enterprises in various cities in Anhui have been impacted to varying degrees. "One box is hard to find", "one cabin is hard to find" and "high freight rate" have become the pain points of most enterprises, which has aroused widespread concern of governments at all levels. Under this circumstance, Hefei CEIBS trains innovative thinking, give full play to the role of CEIBS trains as a channel link, implement the "Hefei CEIBS trains plus" mode, strengthen exchanges and cooperation with various prefecture-level cities, provide fast-acting, low-cost and high-security services for more and more "Made in Anhui", stimulate the "circle group" effect and gradient radiation, and promote the common development of surrounding areas, and gradually become one of the increasingly important channels for the import and export of foreign trade enterprises in our province.

Since the approval of the provincial multimodal transport demonstration project, Hefei land port has actively promoted the related construction work. Focusing on strengthening the synergy between railway and rail-sea, it has innovated the modes of "China-Europe trains" and "China-Europe trains", "Hefei-Zhoushan Port, Shanghai Luchao Port" railway-sea trains "and" China-Europe trains ",customized high-quality trains with industrial linkage, integrated services of transportation and trade, etc.

In order to continuously improve the multimodal transport volume, the problems of empty containers idle and high transportation cost in the "one stop to the end" mode of China-Europe trains are solved through the operation of the integrated transportation mode, and the shipment frequency of China-Europe trains is effectively increased. Hefei takes the logistics base of Hefei North Railway Station as the hub to strengthen the short barge of rail-sea combined transport and rail-road combined transport. We will build an open thoroughfare between Hefei and Ningbo and Shanghai, speed up the construction of the comprehensive logistics transportation system of "road+rail+sea" multimodal transport, and actively cooperate with Ningbo Beilun Port and Shanghai Luchao Port to ensure the unimpeded railway-sea intermodal trains of "Hefei-Ningbo Beilun" and "Hefei-Shanghai Luchao".

Shaping the brand image and expanding the business sector

Quality is the cornerstone of sustainable development of trains. In order to create a good brand image, this year, under the background of extremely tight railway plan, Hefei-China-Europe trains always adhere to full-axle, full-load and full-load operation. High-value goods have become the brand image of Hefei-China Europe trains. By the end of 2021, there were 23 trains with single-column goods worth over US$ 10 million and 150 trains with over US$ 5 million.

Facing the new opportunities of Anhui Free Trade Zone construction, Hefei land port Project has been put into construction, developing towards the "four in one" of customs+port+international trade+land port logistics hub. Focusing on freight forwarding, international trade, logistics and warehousing, supply chain finance and other business sectors, strengthen the extension of the whole ecological industrial chain. In particular, Shushan cross-border e-commerce 9610, cross-border e-commerce B2B and Hefei-China-Europe train have been perfectly combined. In June and July of 2021, export trains have been opened to Port William, Germany, which has played an important role for cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Hefei in epidemic prevention and control, resumption of production and stabilization of overseas industrial supply chain.

Build the project base joint transportation system.

In order to enhance the comprehensive functions of China-Europe trains, promote the development of industrial clusters, promote the international cooperation of "the belt and road initiative" and speed up the reconstruction of international supply chain, Hefei land port project officially started construction on October 26th this year. Hefei land port project is close to the logistics base of Hefei North Station of China Railway Shanghai Bureau. It is constructed in three phases with a total investment of about 997.56 million yuan. The project will adhere to high-point planning, speed up the construction of high standards, and strive to build a first-class inland port area in China; Adhere to the innovation mechanism, implement market-oriented operation, build a number of customized routes of China-Europe high-quality enterprises, and continue to promote the transportation of Anhui goods; Adhere to the optimization of services, create a convenient environment, promote the ability of China-Europe trains, achieve stability and far-reaching, and make new and greater contributions to Hefei's "Five Highs" and "Seven Cities".

After the completion of Hefei land port project, additional services such as trade, warehousing, customs declaration, container leasing, local short barge and so on can be carried out, so as to realize the function of self-hematopoiesis, form an efficient support for the collection and distribution of China-Europe trains, and help Hefei China-Europe trains to increase the shipping frequency by 10%. We can synchronize the two special customs supervision areas of Hefei Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Shushan Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Test Zone, build a collection and distribution system between open platforms, open up the internal circulation, expand the business of bonded warehousing, bonded logistics, bonded processing and cross-border e-commerce, and create "four windows" of Hefei Central Europe train display, train operation one-stop service, customs one-stop service and international trade transaction display, and finally realize customs+port+international trade.

On November 29th, the National Development and Reform Commission announced the list of national logistics hub construction in 2021, and the Hefei dry port national logistics hub (hereinafter referred to as "Hefei dry port hub") led by Hefei International Inland Port Development Co., Ltd. was successfully selected, becoming the first dry port national logistics hub in the Yangtze River Delta region. As an important carrier of Hefei land port project, Hefei Land Port National Logistics Hub will accelerate Hefei's integration into the construction of "the belt and road initiative", further strengthen Hefei's position as a logistics center in the Yangtze River Delta region, and help to realize a greater degree of opening up.

Living in a famous lake city, driving out of a new highland. Looking back on the journey in the past, Hefei-China-Europe trains grew up from scratch, connected Europe and Asia, weathered the storm and walked out of a characteristic road of high-quality development. Standing at a new historical starting point, Hefei land port will continue to implement the spirit of the important speech delivered by General Secretary *** at the third "the belt and road initiative" construction symposium, give full play to the strategic channel role of China-Europe trains, highlight the differentiated development in the Yangtze River Delta region with the characteristics of customized trains of enterprises, promote the high-quality development of China-Europe trains in Hefei, and help build a new highland of inland opening.