China News Service, Chengdu, April 10 (Shan Peng and Zhang Lang) The whistle was whistling. A train carrying 50 containers and 1,250 tons of tea leaves slowly from Chengdu International Railway Port. At the end of this month, this train made its first trip to Sichuan. The "tea special train" will carry green tea produced in Jiajiang, Sichuan, to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and enter the Central Asian market.

  In recent years, the number of China-Europe express trains running between Asia and Europe has continued to increase.

The data shows that in 2020, there will be a total of 12,400 China-Europe trains running across the country, a year-on-year increase of 50%; 1.135 million TEUs will be sent, a year-on-year increase of 56%.

As of March 25, the China-Europe Express has opened 3072 trains this year, a year-on-year increase of 82%.

The China-Europe Railway Express is following the "Silk Road", opening up a new channel for the open economy of the inland western China.

  Chengdu International Railway Port is one of the busiest international railway ports in China.

At the Chengdu Railway Container Center Station, a train loaded with containers enters the port for unloading, huge cranes are busy working, and a large number of heavy trucks shuttle back and forth.

At present, Chengdu International Railway Port has 7 international railway passages and 5 international rail-sea transportation passages, connecting 59 overseas cities.

  Zhang Langlang, director of Chengdu International Railway Express Co., Ltd., said that there will be nearly 2500 China-Europe Express trains departing from Chengdu in 2020. In recent years, the types of goods transported by China-Europe Express Railway have been greatly enriched. Going abroad is the norm.

  After the launch of the China-Europe train, many companies "voted with their feet."

"About 70% of the TV sets sold by TCL in Europe are produced in the Sichuan factory." In the production workshop of TCL Wangpai Electric (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., logistics manager Xu Wei pointed to the "European product line" and said that since the opening of China-Europe Express This production base in Sichuan has successfully transformed from domestic sales to export sales, and the output of export sales is increasing year by year. “The advantages of railway transportation are obvious. In the past, the shipping cycle was about 40 days, and the railway transportation was 15 to 18 days. The supply chain cycle was shortened by about half."

  With this fast transportation channel, imported goods have also "boarded" the China-Europe Express train to enter China continuously.

Not far from the Chengdu Railway Container Center Station, the European-style architectural style of the Asian-Red-European National (Commodity) Pavilion has grown in scale.

Here, buyers or ordinary consumers can purchase food, wine, automobiles, furniture, cosmetics, maternal and child products and other products from countries along the China-Europe railway line at a cheap price.

At present, the national (commodity) pavilion cluster has signed 33 national (commodity) pavilions, and 18 venues including Italy, France, Germany, Belarus, Greece, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia have officially opened to welcome guests.

  "The original intention of the National (Commodity) Pavilion project is to build a country-specific business exhibition and sales center, build a bridge for Sino-foreign cooperation, and bring high-quality overseas resources and rich products to Sichuan." He Yao, Director of External Liaison Department, Qingbaijiang District International Railway Port Management Committee, Chengdu Said that after the project was implemented, distributors from many cities and prefectures in Sichuan came to discuss cooperation and represent products, "promoting trade is the fundamental purpose."

  According to Sheng Yi, a researcher at the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, the biggest impact of the China-Europe Railway Express on Sichuan is to increase the level of opening up to the outside world of China, a large western inland province.

"Previously,'Sichuan products' needed to be shipped to coastal areas before going abroad; foreign raw materials and equipment had to go through long and high-cost land transportation when entering Sichuan, which is particularly unfriendly to enterprises with'two ends outside.'" Sheng Yi said. With the development of China-Europe Express, the industrial structure of China's inland regions will usher in a rapid adjustment, and the investment attraction will be further improved, thereby promoting the all-round opening up of the region.

  Sheng Yi believes that to further play the leading role of this new channel, it is necessary to promote the production of import and export products around the China-Europe Railway Express, establish corresponding parks, and develop related industries. , Adjust product structure to provide opportunities, we must turn opportunities into actions, set up relevant industrial parks, adjust the industrial structure of existing parks, and better adapt to the operation of China-Europe trains." (End)