At about 16 o'clock on October 14, with a loud whistle, the first China-Laos Railway "Beijing-Yunnan-Lancang-Mekong Line" international freight train loaded with bananas imported from Laos departed from Wangjiaying West Railway Station in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, and galloped all the way to the north to Pinggu District, Beijing, marking the official opening of the China-Laos Railway International Cold Chain Train and the "Beijing-Yunnan-Lancang-Mekong Line" international freight train, opening up an international freight channel connecting Beijing, Yunnan and Southeast Asian countries in China.
It is reported that the train departed from Vientiane South Railway Station in Laos, and after a night of galloping, it arrived in Kunming on the 14th and continued to go north, and finally arrived at Mafang Station in Pinggu District, Beijing. Spanning thousands of mountains and rivers, the journey is 4,000 kilometers. This batch of Laotian bananas will be distributed in the Jingping Integrated Logistics Hub to provide Laotian fresh bananas for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. The smooth operation of this special train marks the successful opening of the international freight channel connecting North China, Yunnan and Southeast Asia, making North China and Yunnan connected in series, highlighting the location advantages of Yunnan, better radiating South Asia and Southeast Asia, and forming an efficient logistics channel that runs through North China and Southwest China and connects Southeast Asia.
The "Beijing-Yunnan-Lancang-Mekong Line" international freight train is another important achievement of Beijing and Yunnan Province in implementing the "Belt and Road" initiative. This train travels between Beijing, Yunnan and Laos and other Southeast Asian countries in China, like a link through time and space, closely connecting the capital Beijing and Yunnan, the radiation center facing South Asia and Southeast Asia, forming an efficient and fast logistics channel that runs through China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Southwest China and connects Southeast Asia, so that North China and Yunnan are connected in series, highlighting Yunnan's geographical advantages, better radiating South Asia and Southeast Asia, and forming an efficient logistics channel that runs through North China and Southwest China and connects Southeast Asia.
It is understood that China imports about 700,000 tons of bananas from Laos every year. With the opening of the "Beijing-Yunnan-Lancang-Mekong Line" international freight train, advantageous industries such as bananas and other seasonal hot fruits, light industry FMCG, machinery and electronics, modern agriculture and other advantageous industries in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will also import and export goods through this train, and go to Laos, Thailand, Singapore and other "Belt and Road" countries and regions. This will increase the volume of "road-to-rail" transportation and reduce the air pollution caused by road trucks entering Beijing.
Wang Xiaojing, deputy director of the freight department of the Kunming Bureau of the National Railway, introduced that the train transports one box to the end and refrigerates the whole process, which gives full play to the superiority of container multimodal transport, effectively guarantees the quality of cargo transportation, provides more convenient and efficient logistics services for enterprises in jointly built countries and regions, further stimulates market vitality, promotes the deep integration of industrial chain and supply chain, and promotes the high-quality development of the regional economy.
Since the opening of the China-Laos Railway, it has successfully launched international freight trains such as the "Shanghai-Yunnan-Lancang-Mekong Line", "Guangdong-Yunnan-Lancang-Mekong Line", "Hunan-Yunnan-Lancang-Mekong Line" and "Beijing-Yunnan-Lancang-Mekong Line", covering Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hunan, Yunnan and other provinces and cities. The opening and operation of these trains has not only promoted all-round cooperation between China and Laos in the fields of economy, trade, culture and other fields, but also brought tangible benefits and benefits to the people of the two countries.
Source: Pocket Spring City
Reporter: Yang Mengqi
Editor: Feng Yan
Review: Zhong Ling
Final review: Peng Deguang