China News Service, Kunming, January 22 (Xiong Jiaxin and Chen Jing) "Yunnan should seize the opportunity of the opening of the China-Laos railway, strengthen 'facilities' and 'trade smoothness' with neighboring countries, and promote the comprehensive development of cross-border logistics." Yunnan Province The two sessions are being held in Kunming. Several members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, a democratic party, focused on the construction of Yunnan's cross-border logistics system, and suggested to speed up the construction of a multimodal transport system and an international integrated logistics operation center for South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Yunnan is located in the southwestern border of China, bordering Myanmar in the west and Laos and Vietnam in the south. It is an important hub connecting China's inland with South Asia and Southeast Asia.
According to the "Logistics Hub Layout and Construction Plan of Yunnan Province (2019-2035)", Yunnan will basically build a comprehensive logistics portal hub for South Asia and Southeast Asia from 2021 to 2025, actively connecting China-Myanmar, Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar, China and Vietnam, and China, Laos and Thailand. A major logistics channel to promote the commercial circulation and industrial investment between Yunnan and South Asian and Southeast Asian countries.
The Yunnan Provincial Party Committee of the Taiwan League pointed out in the collective proposal that in recent years, with the substantial improvement of transportation infrastructure, Yunnan's international intermodal transportation relying on railway, highway, air and river transportation has made great progress.
However, there are still some problems in the development of international multimodal transport in Yunnan, including the unsmooth connection of various transport modes, the insufficient service capacity of multimodal transport hubs, and the lack of intelligent development of multimodal transport.
In this regard, the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Taiwan League suggested that the infrastructure of international multimodal transport in Yunnan should be further improved, and the functions of international multimodal transport hubs should be comprehensively improved from aviation, dry ports, and land border ports, and the international intermodal transport cooperation with neighboring countries should be strengthened. , to increase the radiation range of land border port-based international intermodal transport centers, and focus on improving the efficiency of port customs clearance and cross-border logistics.
At the same time, make full use of the opportunity of the construction of "Digital Yunnan", and actively use new technologies such as information technology, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things to promote the digital development of international multimodal transport.
The Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Democratic Progressive pointed out in the "Proposal on Establishing an International Integrated Logistics Operation Center for South Asia and Southeast Asia" that with the opening of the China-Laos Railway, the demand for cross-border logistics and transportation continues to increase, and the multilateral trade and cross-border logistics between China and South Asia and Southeast Asia have increased. With the continuous development of e-commerce, it is urgent for Yunnan to build an international comprehensive logistics operation center.
On the basis of the investigation, the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Democratic Progressive proposed to speed up the construction of logistics informatization, build an interconnected big data smart logistics platform, and build a multilingual international logistics customs clearance center.
Actively deploy and build logistics hubs in South Asian and Southeast Asian countries, and promote the improvement of infrastructure.
Strengthen cross-border exchanges, speed up the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Facilitation of Transportation Cooperation between China, Laos and Thailand, and the Memorandum of Understanding on Facilitation of Transportation between China and Myanmar, so as to solve the problem of reducing transportation smoothness caused by system differences and build an international channel system for internal and external connections.
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