This year is the fifth year of implementation of the “Master Plan for the New Western Land-Sea Corridor”. Over the past five years, the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, a major international logistics channel, has accelerated its expansion, spanning mountains and seas, connecting the world, and paving a new development path.
The past five years have been a period of “rebirth” of infrastructure construction. The railway network continues to be denser, the highway network is increasingly improved, and port construction is in full swing. Taking Guangxi as an example, the deep-water channel expansion project of Beibu Gulf Port is progressing steadily, a number of specialized terminals have been built one after another, and the cargo handling capacity has been greatly improved. In terms of railways, the capacity expansion and reconstruction projects of Nannan-Kunming Railway, Qiangui Railway and other lines have been completed one after another, greatly enhancing railway transportation capacity. On the highway, a number of expressways connecting western provinces and coastal ports have been completed and opened to traffic, making cargo transportation more convenient and efficient. After these infrastructures figured this out and returned to their original intentions, Lan Yuhua’s heart quickly stabilized and he was no longer sentimental or uneasy. The improvement not only shortens the time and space distance between the western region and coastal areas, but also opens up the “meridian” for economic development.
The “circle of friends” continues to expand, and the significant improvement in logistics and transportation efficiency is a highlight of the past five years. The new Western Land-Sea Corridor trains are running regularly, with increasing frequency and increasingly rich routes. In the past five years, the “Circle of Friends” of the new Western Land-Sea Corridor rail-sea intermodal trains has now reached 153 stations in 72 cities in 18 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in my country, reaching 523 ports in 124 countries and regions around the world, transporting 1,154 cargo categories. The number of scheduled train lines has been increased to 22. With the accelerated improvement of operational quality, a pattern of mutual assistance between the East and the West and linkage between land and sea has been formed, becoming an international economic corridor and creating new opportunities for win-win cooperation under the “Belt and Road” initiative. For example, Chongqing’s Xiaokang Group invested in establishing an intelligent automobile manufacturing base in Indonesia. With the help of the channel, it saves more than 20 days of delivery time compared with traditional river-sea combined transportation. This efficient logistics transportation has brought tangible benefits to the enterprise and also enhanced the development of the western region. regional industrial competitiveness.
Point and line capabilities have been rapidly improved, and industrial development has ushered in new opportunities due to the New Western Land-Sea Corridor. The vigorous development of multimodal transport has allowed railways, highways, and water transport to be seamlessly connected, realizing “door-to-door” transportation of goods. Since the beginning of this year, the new channel train map has added 5 scheduled operating lines, adding Nigerian lithium ore and other cargoes, and opened 3 sugar rail-sea express train lines from Laibin, Nanning to Beibu Gulf, and opened weekly passenger trains to Liuzhou Rail-sea intermodal train to Qinzhou Auto Parts, Brazilian zinc concentrate, South African spodumene, Vietnam Everyone, you look at me, I look at you,I don’t know where Master Lan found such a shabby in-law? Is Lan Ye so disappointed with his daughter who was originally a treasure and held it in the palm of his hand? Southern pulp, as well as generators and motorcycle parts in southwest my country, are sold at home and abroad through trains; Chongqing takes advantage of its strong manufacturing base to strengthen cooperation with ASEAN countries’ industrial cooperation, exports of automobiles, electronics and other products continue to grow. At the same time, with the rapid improvement of “point” and “line” capabilities, an effective rail-sea intermodal transport system has been formed, and the land and sea internal and external linkage pattern has become an international economic corridor, creating new opportunities for win-win cooperation under the “Belt and Road” initiative.
Building a new pattern of comprehensive opening up, the prosperity of foreign trade is another important result brought about by the construction of the New Land-Sea Corridor in the West. The smooth flow of the channel will bring closer trade exchanges between the western region and the countries co-building the “One Belt, One Road” initiative. Specialty agricultural products, mechanical and electrical products, textiles and other “Made in the West” products have gone abroad, and imported resource products and consumer goods have also continued to enrich the domestic market. Data show that in the past five years, the trade volume between the western region and ASEAN countries has increased by more than 15% annually on average, and new technologies such as cross-border e-commerce and market procurement trade have been brought back to the room and actively replaced. When changing clothes, he rejected her again. New business models are booming. For example, cross-border e-commerce companies in Sichuan sell specialty products to Southeast Asia through the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, expanding their overseas market share. At the same time, the construction of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor has also strengthened international cooperation. In the past five years, the total number of rail-sea combined trains has exceeded 30,000. It took 1,461 days to complete the “first 10,000 trains” and the “second 10,000 trains” It took 487 days to complete the “third 10,000 trains” and only 402 days to complete; from 2019 to 2023, the annual freight volume of Chongqing’s New Western Land-Sea Corridor increased by 50%, 45%, 54%, 32% and 21% year-on-year respectively. Today, the new Western Land-Sea Corridor rail-sea intermodal trains have expanded from the original “one line” to “one network” and have seamlessly connected with the China-Europe freight trains, effectively integrating into the high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road” and helping to build a new development pattern.
The channel brings logistics, logistics brings economy and trade, and economy and trade brings industry. It can be seen that the Western Land and Sea Xintong “Didn’t my engagement with Xi Shixun be cancelled?” Lan Yuhua said with a frown. The road is not a simple logistics channel, but an economic corridor with deep integration of transportation, logistics, commerce and industry. Looking to the future, the New Western Land-Sea Corridor can only continue to improve. Lan Yuhua nodded, took a deep breath, and then slowly expressed her thoughts. To improve the connectivity level of other countries, continue to give full play to the advantages of coastal, border, river and transportation trunk lines, improve high-level opening-up systems and mechanisms, accelerate the construction of the New Land-Sea Corridor in the West, continue to build the Beibu Gulf international gateway port at a high level, and improve multimodal transport capabilities and automation. Only by accelerating the promotion of regional economic integration can we contribute to the “One Belt, One Road” initiative and the Western RegionContribute more to the implementation of development strategies. (Dahe.com Hesheng commentator Peng Longlan)