"Steel Camel" Helps "Mirage" Become a "Golden Channel" for Trade

China Railway Hohhot Bureau Group Company released on the 20th that in the past 8 years, the largest land port between China and Mongolia - Erenhot Port has accumulated more than 8,000 China-Europe trains. (China News Network, October 20)

Located in the north of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, across the border from Zamenwude City in Mongolia's East Gobi Province, Erenhot City is the largest road and railway port opened by China to Mongolia, and also an important entry and exit port for the passage of China-Europe express trains. "Erlian" is a Chinese transliteration of mongolian, which means mirage. The China-Europe express train is known as the "steel camel caravan", when the "steel camel" meets the "mirage", creating a "golden channel" for China-Mongolia trade, which is of great significance to the overall situation of China's "Belt and Road" construction.

The Erenhot Railway Port is an important border port station in the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor and a key node on the central axis of the China-Europe express train. The Erenhot port faces Mongolia and develops border trade leaders abroad. In Mongolia, the rise and fall of trade determines the rise and fall of ports. Therefore, good Sino-Mongolian trade relations are the fundamental factors for accelerating the development of the Erlian port. With the increasingly close economic and trade exchanges between China and the countries along the "Belt and Road", the scale of import and export cargo transportation through the Erlian Railway Port has increased year by year, especially the quantity and quality of China-Europe express trains have been greatly improved, which has played an important role in ensuring the smooth flow of goods and the stable supply of materials in China and Europe and countries along the route.

According to the channel capacity, the railway department has deeply tapped its own potential, improved transportation efficiency, scientifically formulated freight train operation plans, strengthened coordination and contact with mongolian railway departments, established regular dialogue mechanisms with customs, border inspection and other units, further reduced the time and operating costs of goods clearance, and strived to make trains run faster and smoother. Relying on the help of the "steel camel", the data shows that in the first nine months of this year, the import and export freight volume of the Erenhot Railway Port reached 12.7536 million tons, an increase of 3.4% year-on-year. Among them, the import freight volume was 11.1288 million tons, down 0.8% year-on-year, and the export freight volume was 1.6248 million tons, an increase of 45.5% year-on-year. Truly let the Erenhot railway port, a "mirage", become a trade "golden channel".

In recent years, under the "Belt and Road" initiative, the China-Europe express train, as a new mode of transportation across continents, long distance and large volume, has become an international public logistics brand widely recognized by countries along the route by virtue of its advantages of safety and speed, green environmental protection and time stability. It is believed that in the near future, the China-Europe express train will also fully release its potential and inject new impetus into regional and world economic growth.

(Li Fuming)