As of the end of July this year, the total number of China-Europe Class Trains has exceeded 57,000, transporting 5.3 million TEUs of cargo, with the rate of heavy containers reaching 98.3%, and the total value of cargo is nearly USD 300 billion.
On August 18, the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Construction of "Belt and Road" officially released the "China-Europe Class Train Development Report (2021)" (hereinafter referred to as "the Report"). Xu Jianping, director of the Department of Openness of the National Development and Reform Commission, said at the conference on the 18th that the China-Europe Class Train is the flagship project and iconic brand of the "Belt and Road". The China-Europe Classical Train has become an important bridge for international economic and trade cooperation, growing with the continuous promotion of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and is the most closely linked path of economic and trade between China and the co-construction countries.
In March 2011, the first China-European Liner was sent from Chongqing to Duisburg, Germany, which opened the prelude of the innovative development of China-European Liner.
The report shows that by the end of July this year, the China-Europe Classical Train has laid out 82 transport routes, reaching 196 cities in 24 European countries, gradually "connecting points into lines" and "weaving lines into networks", and the transport service network covers the whole territory of Europe, forming an international transport artery through The transport service network covers the whole territory of Europe, forming an international transport artery through Europe and Asia. The cargo categories have been gradually expanded from cell phones, computers and other IT products at the beginning to 53 categories and more than 50,000 varieties, such as clothing, shoes and hats, automobiles and accessories, grain, wine, coffee beans and timber, covering all aspects of production and life required by people in countries and regions along the route. Xu Jianping said that the China-Europe Classical Train has built a new all-weather, high-capacity, green and low-carbon land transport channel, which is a major innovation of the international transport service system. Compared with maritime and air transport, the price of China-Europe Class Train is 1/5 of aviation, and the running time is 1/4 of maritime transport, which is less affected by natural environment and has high stability, and is very attractive to products with certain scale of capacity and high requirements of timeliness.
The operation of China-Europe shuttle train not only sends "Made in China" and "Chinese opportunities" to countries along the route, but also brings back "European products" and "European hopes". ", "China-Europe Class Train+Trade", "China-Europe Class Train+Port", "China-Europe Class Train+Park" and other new business models are developing rapidly, and the demand for the operation of China-Europe Class Train is growing from both Chinese and foreign parties. The demand for China-Europe Class Train has been growing. For example, the export-oriented industries in Zhengzhou, Chongqing and other cities in Henan Province have achieved an average annual growth of 30% after the operation of CEB trains; Xinjiang has further enhanced exchanges and cooperation with neighboring countries by relying on CEB trains, which has boosted the high-quality construction of Xinjiang Silk Road core area. Lodz, Poland, Duisburg, Germany and other cities have been accompanied by the development of CEB trains, and the status of international logistics hubs has been continuously enhanced, and locally produced special products are sold to China in large quantities by CEB trains.
After the outbreak of the new pneumonia epidemic, the domestic CEB train operating platform took the initiative to meet the export needs of enterprises, and cooperated with a large number of enterprises, such as TCL, Dell, Lenovo, Geely and Volvo, to operate "customized trains" and provide full logistics and transportation solutions, by adopting matching schedules, encrypting plans, etc. Through a number of initiatives, such as matching schedules and encryption plans, it has provided important support for domestic and foreign enterprises to maintain the stability of the industrial chain supply chain.
Since 2022, a total of 1,150 "customized trains" have been operated, effectively reducing the impact of the Newcastle pneumonia epidemic on the stability of the international industrial supply chain.
At present, the "China-European Express + cross-border e-commerce" "China-European Express + international mail" and other new business models, new modes of rapid development. Xia Jun, deputy director of the supervision department of the General Administration of Customs, said at the press conference when answering questions from the First Financial Reporter that since 2020, the Customs has actively supported postal companies and logistics companies to use CEB trains to evacuate the backlog of inbound and outbound mail and cross-border e-commerce goods affected by the epidemic. Give full play to the advantages of low cost and low freight of China-European Liner, attracting local cross-border e-commerce goods to exit through China-European Liner, providing strong support for small and medium-sized enterprises to smooth the logistics channel and support the stable development of foreign trade.
Regarding the next work arrangement, Xia Jun said that it will actively strengthen the cooperation with railroad and postal departments, enhance the level of informationization of China-EU trains, strengthen information interoperability, improve the whole chain of supervision, form a regulatory synergy and improve the efficiency of customs clearance. Support the relevant cities to carry out the Sino-European train transport and mail test under the premise of meeting the regulatory conditions, encourage and guide more enterprises to participate in the cross-border e-commerce commodity transportation of the Sino-European train, and cultivate new trade patterns.
In September last year, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Railway Group further improved the layout plan of the overseas channels of the China-EU Liner, actively promoting the enhancement of the capacity of the northern and central channels, accelerating the cultivation and development of the southern channel, improving the layout of overseas hub nodes, and strengthening the support of trade and channel facilitation. About the current market widely concerned about the overseas South Passage, Zhuang He, director of the freight department of the National Railway Group, said that it will strongly support domestic cities to expand the scale of China-European liner transportation via South Passage, include China-European liner statistics between China and trans-Eurasian Turkey, Georgia and other sea-front countries, give the corresponding tariff and capacity policy, and provide support for localities to operate China-European liner through South Passage.
