On the morning of May 30, at the scene of the "First Ceremony of the Double Train of the Alashankou European Express train of Minmetals Logistics in Alashankou City" in Xinjiang, the China-Europe train full of goods set off from the port and sailed to the destination of Malaszewicz in Poland. The smooth debut of this train marks a major breakthrough in the efficiency, operation standardization and line reputation of the China-Europe express train in service, promoting the transformation of the development model from government-led to market-oriented, and injecting strong momentum into the new pattern of national double circulation and higher level of opening up and higher quality development in the opening year of the "14th Five-Year Plan".
Du Yingkun, member of the party group and vice governor of the autonomous prefecture people's government, Deputy secretary of the party committee, secretary of the political and legal committee and director of the United Front Work Department of Alashankou City, Zhang Tong, deputy secretary of the party working committee of the comprehensive insurance district and secretary of the party working committee of the Internet Information Technology, as well as the main leaders of the Alashankou customs, railway, border inspection and other departments, and some enterprise representatives attended the ceremony. Municipal leader Chen Xinbo presided over the ceremony.
Du Yingkun, member of the party leading group and vice governor of the autonomous prefecture people's government, announced the departure of the train.
It is understood that the goods carried by the train are mainly from Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xiamen and other places of clothing, shoes and hats, auto parts, daily necessities, etc., a total of 100 containers, the goods will eventually be distributed to Malaszewicz in Poland. Minmetals Logistics is a world-renowned enterprise China Minmetals Group Corporation within the professional logistics company, the good transit conditions of Alashankou port and the advantages of assembly, reloading integration operations, enterprises to the first launch of the China-Europe train as an opportunity, the future will continue in the field of trade logistics and Alashankou municipal government, enterprises in-depth cooperation, and actively participate in local construction and development.
Xiao Jian, general manager of Minmetals Logistics Group Co., Ltd., told reporters, "Combining our current resources and the resources of our partners, our plan is to say that in the future, we can issue about 200 containers of 4 trains per month." In the future, we will continue to promote the application of the "China-Europe Express Shipping Platform", and at the same time gradually develop new customer resources, and strive for a stable growth in the business. Through our subsequent integrated logistics platform, we can provide customers with overall logistics solutions, reduce logistics costs, and thus attract more enterprises to import goods through Alashankou, and we can also provide optimized logistics solutions for local industries and enterprises in Alashankou. With the advantages of our logistics network to reduce the logistics costs of our local industries and enterprises, improve logistics efficiency and timeliness, help local enterprises to become bigger and stronger, but also help Alashankou to attract more industries to land in Alashankou, not only can directly create new taxes for Alashankou, but also indirectly attract more enterprises to invest in Alashankou. ”
In recent years, Alashankou City has taken the initiative to integrate into the construction of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, through deepening reform, continuously consolidating and improving the "great customs clearance" mechanism, actively cultivating a market-oriented, law-based and international business environment, vigorously supporting customs, railway and other departments to optimize operational processes, improve customs clearance efficiency, promote sea-rail and public railway combined transport, accelerate the gathering of people, logistics, capital flows and information flows in node cities along the "Belt and Road", better play the positive role of international logistics hubs, and help promote the prosperity and development of outbound trade.
Yang Xiaojun, director of Alashankou Customs, said, "We at Alashankou Customs will further enhance the efficiency of China-Europe express trains, starting from reducing documents, optimizing processes, improving timeliness and reducing costs, and at the same time we will continue to make efforts in comprehensively deepening business reform and reducing customs clearance time, deeply analyze the blockage points and card points that affect customs clearance time, make good use of and give full play to the advantages and policy resources of all aspects of the port, and jointly build the port into a new highland for inland opening and opening up along the border." ”
Since the first china-Europe express train was launched in 2011 and 17 trains were issued that year, by the end of 2020, the Alashankou port has accumulated 19,800 China-Europe express trains, an average annual growth rate of 88.2%, accounting for nearly 50% of the total number of banks in the country. Alashankou City gives full play to the important role of the China-Europe Express West Corridor, accelerates the construction of the national land border port-type logistics hub, and focuses on the facilitation of customs clearance, and the passage of trains has reached a new high year after year. The successful realization of the first double train of the Alashankou and Ouzhou express trains of Minmetals Logistics has further enriched and condensed the sea-rail and public railway intermodal transport mode of the Alashankou-Koukou Express, and will comprehensively help Alashankou City to build a pilot demonstration zone for inland opening up along the border, so as to serve China's foreign economic cooperation, connect the China-Europe land trade channel, realize road connectivity and smooth logistics between China and Europe, and promote the construction of the "Belt and Road" to provide important support and transportation capacity guarantee.
"The China-Europe express train is the flagship project of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the most beautiful business card, as the 'steel camel' of land transportation, in the context of the global epidemic, fully demonstrates the advantages of the safety and efficiency of the China-Europe express train, showing a blowout trend of rising against the trend and rapid growth." On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the unified brand of China-Europe express trains, the issuance ceremony of the two trains in the Alashankou of Minmetals will surely drive the transformation of Alashankou from the channel of the China-Europe express train into a assembly center, and we will fully support the issuance of the train by Minmetals and the normal operation, build the demonstration project of the China-Europe express train, and build the Alashankou into a strategic fulcrum for smooth domestic and international double circulation. Cai Hu, deputy director of the alashankou comprehensive insurance district management committee, said. (Song Yulong, Zuo Tong) (China Daily Xinjiang Reporter Station)
Source: China Daily