China-European Liner (Hefei) writes the story of Anhui on "One Belt, One Road

On May 19, 2023, in the early summer when everything is booming, with a whistle blaring, a China-European train (Hefei) slowly left the station and headed for Dostyk, Kazakhstan, which is the 47th Central Asia outbound train this year. Up to now, CEB (Hefei) has sent more than 1,000 trains to and from Central Asia, transporting nearly one million tons of goods, injecting strong momentum for China-Central Asia economic and trade exchanges, with a total of more than 3,200 trains, covering 18 countries and more than 114 international site cities, chasing and writing the story of Anhui on "One Belt, One Road".

In response to the trend and plan "steel camel" to build an open bridge

In 2014, in response to the "One Belt and One Road" initiative, to give full play to the geographical advantages of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and "One Belt and One Road" nodes in Hefei, and to promote the building of a new inland open highland, in June 2014, the Hefei municipal government reviewed the situation and seized the opportunity. In June 2014, the Hefei Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government took the opportunity to seize the opportunity and opened the first national railroad freight channel connecting Asia and Europe in the history of Anhui Province, and the first train was sent to Almaty, Kazakhstan, one of the five countries in Central Asia.

Central Asia is located in the combination of Asia and Europe, since more than 2000 years ago Zhang Qian through the Western Regions is an important transportation hub on the Silk Road. In recent years, as China and Central Asian countries continue to deepen political mutual trust, international cooperation, China-Europe train gradually emerged as a powerful support effect of the transport of goods in Asia and Europe.

On July 9, 2020, the Central Asia (Tashkent - Hefei) return train full of cotton yarn arrived at Hefei North Station, making a zero breakthrough for the Central Asia return train in Hefei, and marking the "two-way" double line of "Central Europe to return + Central Asia to return" for the China-Europe train (Hefei). "This further enriches the transport variety and improves the service capacity. Hefei International Land Port gives full play to its superior geographical advantages, actively integrates into the construction of "One Belt and One Road", and introduces high-quality agricultural products, chemical fertilizers and timber materials from Central Asia and other regions into China through CEBS (Hefei), while bringing high-quality "Made in China" products to the regions along the "One Belt and One Road". It also brings high quality "Made in China" to the regions along the "Belt and Road", and sets up a golden channel for international economic and trade exchanges.

Smooth access to Central Asia and promote the integration of industry chain supply chain development

The Hefei International Dry Port uses the China-Europe Class as a carrier to tap high-quality backhaul cargo sources, promote the integrated development of industry chain supply chains, reduce enterprise logistics costs, and build the China-Europe Class as an important open channel for the province and city to integrate into the "Belt and Road" construction.

In 2022, geopolitical conflicts, repeated epidemics at home and abroad, along with imported inflation and other unfavorable factors, the global potash supply chain market price disorder, prices gradually rise. At the same time, the domestic potash supply exceeds the demand, and the price also continues to rise. In order to guarantee the supply of potash, a strategic resource, Hefei International Dry Port has explored the Uzbek potash plant and Russian potash plant with its own advantages, and exploited the return resources at the source by taking advantage of China-Europe trains, so as to contribute to the supply and price stability of Anhui agriculture.

In addition, when the feed grain enterprises around Hefei are facing low supply chain efficiency and rising prices due to the international situation, Hefei International Dry Port carries out the sourcing of imported Central Asian barley, wheat bran, wheat flour and other feed grains in Kazakhstan, and with the support of customs and other units, completes the overseas procurement and domestic transfer program at the fastest speed, realizing the localized supply of imported feed, which to a certain extent alleviates the tension of local feed materials.

Anhui power leaps on "One Belt, One Road"

The China-European Express in Hefei has always been serving the local industries in Anhui, and now it has become an important channel for the export of manufacturing in Hefei and even Anhui. The China-European Express continues to play the role of 'King of Cargo' in international trade, with obvious advantages of timeliness and safety, and gradually becomes the priority choice for enterprises' import and export.

In order to better carry out the development concept of "the province as a whole" and let Anhui enterprises ride on the east wind of "Belt and Road" to go farther, Hefei China-European Express gradually explored the "Hefei China-European Express+" strategy. " strategy. Hefei International Land Port has opened "Hefei China-European Express +" Wuhu, Bengbu, Huangshan and other inter-city orientation trains. At present, Hefei International Land Port has served more than 600 enterprises in Anhui Province and achieved full coverage of 16 cities in Anhui, so that the bonding role of Hefei China-European Express can be given full play, stimulating the "circle group" effect and gradient radiation, driving the common development of the surrounding areas and making the local manufacturing shine on the world stage.

On the evening of August 27, 2021, Anhui's first special tea train successfully started, after 15 days arrived in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The stable operation of the Central Asia train provides a new cross-border logistics solution for Huangshan tea foreign trade exports, significantly reducing the transport costs of enterprises, further promoting the export and transformation and upgrading of the tea industry, accelerating the integration of the "Miles of Tea Road" into the "Belt and Road", is China-European Liner (Hefei) to help the export of local characteristics of enterprises a vivid practice.

Iron and sea connected to help connect the Maritime Silk Road

In order to break the limitation of single mode of transportation and build an east-west open channel, Hefei International Land Port takes the Hefei North Station Logistics Base as the hub, strengthens the iron-sea intermodal transport and public-rail intermodal transport short-barge, accelerates the construction of "road + railroad + sea" multimodal integrated logistics and transportation system, and the China-European Railway (Hefei) train " Hand in hand" Ningbo Beilun Port, Shanghai Yangshan Port, actively open the Hefei iron and sea intermodal transport trains, to provide a new channel for the steady promotion of foreign trade in Anhui, for the integration of the Yangtze River Delta to inject new momentum. Since the opening of the Hefei iron and sea intermodal transport trains, the volume and capacity of transport has been significantly increased year by year, a large number of local enterprises in Anhui manufacturing goods through the port to the sea, along the "Maritime Silk Road", goods through the world, and now the Hefei iron and sea intermodal transport trains have shipped a total of more than 200,000 TEU.

Sea-rail intermodal transport has effectively brought into play the advantages of "railroad + port" with large capacity, great depth and high efficiency, and has become an important initiative for Hefei to connect with Ningbo Zhoushan Port/Shanghai Port and the "Maritime Silk Road" channel. The sea-railway intermodal transport channel has become an important channel for Hefei and even Anhui enterprises' goods to all over the world, helping Hefei to connect "One Belt, One Road" and Yangtze River Economic Belt in multi-channel and multi-modal transport mode, and providing land for the smooth passage of "Maritime Silk Road". "Green transport guarantee".

Looking to the Future: Drawing a Blueprint for the Silk Road

In the fall of 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", or the "Belt and Road" initiative, during his visits to Kazakhstan and Indonesia. The "Belt and Road" initiative. Today, the "Belt and Road" has become the most popular international public goods and the largest international cooperation platform.

Customs data show that from January to April this year, with the gradual stabilization of the domestic epidemic, the economic operation stabilized and rebounded, the strong resilience and vitality of China's foreign trade then manifested. In the first four months of this year, China's import and export to countries along the "Belt and Road" 4.61 trillion yuan, an increase of 16%.

Riding on the east wind of "One Belt, One Road", Hefei International Dry Port is heading for a more expansive future - the shipping of trains has reached a new level, with 465 trains shipped in 2023, an increase of 32% year-on-year; it has been approved as the first national logistics hub in the Yangtze River Delta and the fourth national multimodal transport demonstration project. Hefei Logistics Group was born to "smooth the city's logistics, protect the people's livelihood, and serve the people's needs". City logistics, to protect the city's livelihood, to serve the city's industry" for the development of positioning, to help build a "land, water and air" three-dimensional open channel.

The "One Belt and One Road" provides the best opportunity, and with the sound of the whistle, the tide of opening up rolls forward. President Xi Jinping mentioned in his keynote speech at the China-Central Asia Summit that "the China-Europe trains that travel day and night, the freight cars that go on and on, and the air flights that go on and on, are the contemporary 'camel caravan'."

But we can see the dragon flying through, and the silk haze is red in the sky. Carrying the mission of win-win cooperation and building a new highland of inland opening, the China-European Express (Hefei) will travel steadily all the way, galloping on the new Silk Road and injecting more power and vitality for the construction of "One Belt, One Road".