Recently, the China-Europe express train has been completely on fire, not only bringing great wealth to China and European countries, but also playing a major role in the fight against the epidemic, and the countries that used to be sneering at us are now eager to join in and jointly build this new "Silk Road" between Eurasia.
How exactly did the China-Europe express train achieve a counterattack? Was its explosion accidental or inevitable?
The so-called China-Europe express train is actually a railway transport train connecting China and Europe and various countries along the Belt and Road. The first China-Europe express train, born on March 19, 2011, traveled between Chongqing, China and Duisburg, Germany, and since then, dozens of provinces and cities such as Chengdu, Zhengzhou, Wuhan and Guangzhou have also opened trains and joined the big family of China-Europe express trains.
Why is China building a China-Europe express train?
In fact, in a precise sense, it is not China that needs China-Europe express trains, but China's inland cities that are too far from the port and have a strong manufacturing industry, because the products in these regions are sold to the whole world, but they lack a favorable way.
A typical representative of this is Chongqing, which opened the first China-Europe express train.
In 2009, HP production base officially settled in Chongqing, shortly thereafter, the electronics industry has become the city's pillar industry, coupled with Asus, Foxconn, Quanta Pegatron and other notebook manufacturers have also built production bases in the area, so it soon became the world's largest laptop production base, it is said that every three computers sold in the world, one of which is made in Chongqing.
In the case of a large number of products that need to be sold to the outside world, but there is a lack of shipping routes, railway transportation has become the best way, and it is precisely because of this that the mainland will encourage Chongqing and other inland cities to vigorously build China-Europe express trains, and even give high subsidies for this. So when we were building the railway, we actually gritted our teeth to repair it, but even so, there are still many countries that are reluctant to become the stops of the China-Europe train.
Why? Because there will be many problems in the construction process of transnational railways, such as different rail spacing, the need to change wheels, such as the need for different containers, the need to repeatedly transfer goods. It is precisely because countries do not have any experience in the construction of transnational railways, and they believe that It is impossible for China to build the China-Europe express train, so they will choose to look at it coldly.
However, China's will will not be shaken by other countries, and we have forced the China-Europe train to be built, and at this time many countries have jumped out again, saying that Chinese is really stupid, and even went to build a railway that loses money.
In the years when the China-Europe express train was just completed, it was indeed losing money, because there were not many participating countries at that time, and every time in the return process, the train was basically empty, and the subsidy given by the government was even as high as 40% at one time.
However, China still has not given up, because we know that if we want to achieve a career, the initial investment is inevitable, if the United States did not burn so much money hard, where did the semiconductor and Internet advantages come from later?
What Americans can do, Chinese can do, and can do better.
With this determination, we persevered until 2018, which is also the year that the China-Europe express train ushered in a turnaround.
In August 2018, a China-Europe train full of wood arrived in Chongqing, and countless people rejoiced, not only because of the timber, but also because the China-Europe train officially opened the timber market from Russia to Chongqing. This means that we no longer need to consider the problem of "going away with a full load and returning empty", and this trade will further promote the development of imported timber trade and wood processing industry chain in Sichuan and Chongqing.
Since then, the more the development of China-Europe express trains is better, rail transport relative to air and sea transport, has a unique advantage, neither need air transport so expensive cost, nor do need to be so long time by sea, in the cost of only 1/5 of the air transport, the speed can reach 3 times the sea, which makes more and more cities and countries see the benefits of rail transport, and gradually joined in.
During this period, the government's support policy for China-Europe trains has become smaller and smaller, from 40% to 30% to 20%, it seems that China-Europe trains still need government support, but the actual situation is that China-Europe trains are thriving.
According to this trend, the China-Europe express train will soon become the new Silk Road, but no one expected that the new crown epidemic would suddenly break out, which greatly shortened the time required for the development of the China-Europe train, and directly made the China-Europe train explode globally.
In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, international air passenger flights have basically been grounded, and the belly capacity of these passenger aircraft has assumed 70% of the world's air transport tasks, which means that it will be more expensive to use air freight to transport things.
As for the original cheap and famous shipping, due to fierce competition, so the cost is also rising, gradually to an outrageous point, more difficult to accept is that the transportation time is longer, the product interest space is greatly compressed.
Air and sea transport have been fatally hit, rail transport has become the best solution for people, once a country that did not want to join the China-Europe train, now eager to join; a few years ago, the merchants who disdained to use the China-Europe train to transport products now have to queue up and wait for the opportunity...
I just don't know if these countries and individuals who were once high above will now feel ashamed of their ignorance and delusions. Do you think the mainland should allow these countries to join the China-Europe express train? Interested friends are welcome to actively discuss in the message area.