China News Service, Qingdao, January 25 (Reporter Hu Yaojie) The China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Zone (referred to as the "Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone") in 2022, the first China-Europe train (Qilu) "Railway Express" special train on 25 It was dispatched from the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

　　According to reports, this special train has a total of 100 TEUs, carrying mechanical and electrical products, tires and Tsingtao beer worth about 1.97 million U.S. dollars. The goods are declared in the "railway express customs clearance" mode and exit through the Alashankou port. It is expected to arrive in Tashkent in about 6 days. .

　　The "Railway Express Customs Clearance" model is an important initiative launched by the General Administration of Customs in 2021 to further unblock the international logistics channel opened to the west, promote the development of China-Europe freight trains, and improve the efficiency and facilitation level of domestic railway import and export transit transportation. Beneficial measures.

The "Railway Express Customs Clearance" mode can realize data exchange between customs, railways and operating enterprises, and the three parties cooperate and jointly supervise. The enterprise shall declare separately and go through customs transfer procedures.

　　Xu Yuejing, deputy head of Jiaozhou Customs, said that in the past China-Europe trains transit customs clearance mode, border port customs need to manually verify the "transit form" for outbound trains.

After the implementation of the fast customs clearance mode, the railway and the customs have formed a real-time data exchange through the fast-pass system. The departure point of the outbound train only needs to upload the relevant data of the train, and the port customs can grasp the train situation through the data docking, and automatically let go.

　　Xu Yuejing said that enterprises complete all customs clearance procedures at Jiaozhou Customs, and goods can directly enter and exit the country at border ports such as Alashankou, Horgos, Manzhouli, etc., which greatly shortens the customs clearance time of trains at border ports, and improves the efficiency of customs clearance at ports. Import and export businesses reduce time and capital costs.

　　It is reported that, as the only demonstration zone in China to carry out local economic and trade cooperation with SCO countries and countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”, in 2021, the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in the SCO Demonstration Zone will arrive and dispatch 621 China-Europe trains, a year-on-year increase. over fifty percent.

At present, international trains in the SCO Demonstration Zone can reach 48 cities in the SCO and 20 countries and regions along the "Belt and Road".

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