Xinhua News Agency, Lanzhou, April 7th. Title: Inland Gansu is opening up faster

Xinhua News Agency reporters Ren Weidong, Ma Weikun, Wang Mingyu

Gansu Province, which is deep in the northwestern inland of the motherland, has long lived in a corner and suffered from isolation. In recent years, Gansu Province has seized the biggest opportunity of the “Belt and Road” by leveraging its location advantages in the “Golden Section of the Silk Road Economic Belt”, vigorously promoted the construction of trade channels and various open platforms, and promoted the formation of “land-air linkage” and mutual assistance between east and west. Open pattern.

In the middle of spring, everything is full of vitality. Workers are processing wood raw materials in the production workshop of Hub Wood Co., Ltd. in Lanzhou New District Comprehensive Bonded Zone, the first national-level new area in the northwest.

Although this is just an ordinary wood processing company, the integration of its upstream and downstream industrial chains is the epitome of Gansu's "Belt and Road" construction.

The general manager of the company, Yu Jitao, told reporters that the wood used by the company comes from Russia, and the China-Europe train that runs from the railway port in Lanzhou New Area provides a stable import channel.

↑The first "New Land-Sea Corridor" corn special train arrived at the Gansu (Lanzhou) International Dry Port (photographed on January 20). Xinhua News Agency

"Most furniture companies are concentrated in the eastern coastal areas of my country. The main reason is that they can rely on convenient sea transportation to import wood. Nowadays, the steady operation of China-Europe trains also allows inland companies to access this industry." Yu Jitao said, China Europe The freight train saves time compared to ocean freight. In January this year, the company's first batch of wood products has been successfully exported.

Import of raw materials, bonded processing, global sales... In Lanzhou New Area, China-Europe Express and Comprehensive Bonded Zone "co-operate" the channel economy business model is becoming more and more mature, and the inland northwest will accelerate its participation in the global trade industry chain.

In February of this year, Gansu (Lanzhou) International Dry Port, Lanzhou Railway Port, Lanzhou New Zone Comprehensive Bonded Zone and other open platforms cooperated with each other to import 30,000 tons of corn originating in Ukraine with a value of 8.13 million U.S. dollars to Qinzhou Port in Guangxi. Then it is imported to Lanzhou via the "New Land-Sea Channel" for feed processing. The "New Land-Sea Corridor" has become the "major grain import channel" in the Northwest.

With the channel as the carrier, the tentacles of Gansu's opening to the outside world continue to expand. Li Jianliang, director of the Gansu (Lanzhou) International Dry Port Management Committee, said that up to now, Gansu has formed four mature international trade corridors: Central Asia, Central Europe, South Asia, and the "New Land-Sea Corridor".

↑Fresh cold chain trucks enter the Comprehensive Bonded Zone of Lanzhou New District (photographed on November 5, 2020). Xinhua News Agency

Statistics from Lanzhou Customs show that in the first two months of this year, the total import and export value of Gansu Province increased by 57.8% year-on-year, especially for countries and regions along the “Belt and Road” such as Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, the European Union, and ASEAN.

Gansu has also vigorously promoted the construction of various open platforms. Timber ports, meat ports, designated supervision sites for grain, designated ports for imported fruits and imported chilled aquatic products are "blooming everywhere." In Lanzhou New Area alone, there are Lanzhou Railway Port, Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Lanzhou Air Port, etc., forming an "open matrix", cooperating with international trains, and playing an "open movement" belonging to the inland northwest.

If international trains gave vitality to the ancient Silk Road and allowed Gansu’s open tentacles to extend, then the opening of the “Aerial Silk Road” and the combined forces formed by the “land-air linkage” would “open up the world” for Gansu. Shorten the open space-time distance.

On March 12 this year, a cargo plane from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, flew to Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport in Lanzhou, Gansu with a full load of 15 tons of dried mangoes. After the cargo was unloaded, it reloaded about 12 tons of department store products and flew to Lahore, Pakistan. This marks the resumption of operation of the "ASEAN-Lanzhou-South Asia" air cargo channel opened last year.

Cheng Lin, the person in charge of Gansu Port Logistics Co., Ltd., which is in charge of route operations, said that China, ASEAN, and South Asia are highly complementary in trade. Since the construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative, domestic enterprises have become increasingly close to South Asia's economic and trade ties.

Facing the map of China, you will see that Gansu is not remote, and Lanzhou is located in the geometric center of China's land territory, and occupies the golden zone of the Silk Road Economic Belt, with significant geographical advantages.

"Choosing Lanzhou as a base and opening up air cargo channels not only minimizes the radius of cargo collection from places such as Zhejiang and Guangdong, but is also close to the South Asian consumer market." Cheng Lin said.

In recent years, Gansu has opened a road-rail combined freight train to South Asia, which is also considered to be the most distinctive international train in Gansu.

In 2016, the Lanzhou-Kathmandu road-rail combined transport train was launched smoothly. After assembly, home appliances, clothing and other products produced in Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places, as well as chemical products from Qinghai and Gansu, were first transported by rail to Tibet, and then transported by car. After exiting through ports such as Zhangmu and Keelung in Tibet, it was finally transported to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and became the first South Asian road-rail combined transport train in China. In 2018, Lanzhou opened a South Asian road-rail intermodal train to Islamabad, Pakistan, with a total length of 4,500 kilometers, which is nearly 15 days shorter than seaborne transportation. This is the second international freight channel opened by Gansu to South Asia.

Nowadays, Lanzhou has become one of the few cities in China that simultaneously opens South Asian international trains and South Asian all-cargo routes, and has erected an open bridgehead from Northwest China to South Asia.
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