What has changed in the past five years by shortening the cooperation and "stretching" the new western land-sea passage?

(Focus on China-ASEAN Expo) What has changed in the past five years of the new western land-sea corridor?

　　China News Agency, Nanning, September 17th: What has changed in the past five years of the new western land-sea corridor?

　　China News Agency reporter Jiang Xuelin Zhang Guangquan Han Lu

　　The 19th China-ASEAN Expo, which has attracted much attention, is being held in Nanning, Guangxi.

While China and ASEAN gathered in Nanning to plan bilateral cooperation, they also set their sights on the new western land-sea channel, a channel to ensure the smooth supply chain between China and ASEAN under the epidemic.

　　Five years ago, the New Western Land-Sea Corridor successfully connected the hinterland of western China with the ocean. What has the New Western Land-Sea Corridor changed in the past five years?

What profound impact has it had on China-ASEAN cooperation?

These issues have received much attention from the outside world.

Solve the dilemma of "Western goods coming out of the East"

　　In the past, when goods from western China such as Chongqing were transported to ASEAN countries, they had to be transported eastward to coastal areas through the golden waterway of the Yangtze River, and then to Southeast Asia. It took nearly two months for fresh goods such as agricultural products to be transported, and investors were also discouraged.

　　With the opening and operation of the new land-sea passage in the west, the dilemma of "exporting goods from the west to the east" is gradually broken.

Guo Tao, director of the logistics and marketing department of the freight department of China Railway Nanning Bureau Group Co., Ltd., said that taking Chongqing as an example, going to Qinzhou Port in Guangxi via the new land-sea passage in the west will save about 10 days compared with going to sea via the eastern region.

Thanks to this, in the past five years, the rail-sea combined transport trains of the new western land-sea channel have been running from line to surface, gradually forming a network, and have achieved seamless connection with the China-Europe trains, and goods from western China and ASEAN countries have arrived quickly through the new channel. each other's markets.

　　"Under the complex and severe economic situation at home and abroad, the new land-sea corridor provides a solution for solving the international logistics dilemma in the western region and driving the development and opening up of the central and western regions. Chongqing, Chengdu, Guiyang, Nanning, Kunming and other cities along the corridor have remarkable industrial agglomeration capacity. Enhanced." Liu Wei, director of the logistics and operation organization center of the new western land-sea channel, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency.

　　After the seamless connection between the new western land-sea corridor and the China-Europe freight train, the western region of China has become a frontier area of ​​interconnection with ASEAN from a transportation terminal.

　　Liu Wei said that the new channel opens up a new path for cooperation with member states of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to the south.

In the first half of this year, 13 RCEP member countries shipped goods through the new land-sea channel; the new channel opens up new space for the development of Eurasian countries to the north.

Clothing, electronics and other products from Southeast Asian countries can be transported from Chongqing to the European market via the new land-sea route; German cars, Spanish wine, Polish milk, Bulgarian rose oil and other goods can take advantage of the opportunity to enter the Chinese market on the China-Europe train, and Further access to the Southeast Asian market.

Reconstructing the supply chain in the western region

　　Convenient transportation will bring logistics, and logistics will form industrial clusters.

"Guangxi's convenient shipping has attracted Gansu's Jinchuan Group Copper Co., Ltd., which has invested and constructed a copper electrolysis project in Fangchenggang City, Guangxi. In the future, more and more 'Jinchuan Group' will settle in Beibu Gulf." Guangxi Academy of Social Sciences Lei Xiaohua, deputy director of the Southeast Asia Research Institute, said in an interview with reporters that the new western land-sea corridor will reconstruct the supply chain and industrial chain in the western region.

　　The construction of the new land-sea passage in the west has shifted the opening of the western part of China to the outside world.

"This is conducive to attracting some industries to transfer from the eastern coast to the hinterland." said Liu Yizhen, assistant general manager of Luhai New Channel Operation Co., Ltd.

　　Liu Yizhen introduced that thanks to the convenience of the new land-sea channel, Zhejiang Zhengkai Group has gradually transferred its foreign trade export business located in Haining City, Zhejiang Province to Chongqing.

In the future, Zhengkai Group will send more than 10 billion yuan of goods to the world through the new western land-sea channel every year.

　　"The new land-sea channel has built a new pattern of open development and promoted the coordinated development of resources and elements in the northwest region. Soda ash from Qinghai is transported to Guangxi through the new western land-sea channel to support the glass industry, and glass from Guangxi is transported to Sichuan and Chongqing through the new western land-sea channel to support the automobile industry." Liu Yizhen Say.

Bridging the distance between the western region and ASEAN

　　Starting from Chongqing, it is nearly 2,000 kilometers by water to the estuary of the Yangtze River, and only more than 1,000 kilometers to Qinzhou Port in Guangxi.

The construction of the new western land-sea corridor has shortened the distance between the western region of China and ASEAN.

　　After the distance has shortened, the cooperation has "stretched".

According to Li Muyuan, executive vice president and secretary general of China Container Industry Association, the new channel has continuously strengthened the foreign trade dependence between western China and ASEAN.

From 2017 to 2021, the trade volume between China's western region and ASEAN will increase from US$72.4 billion to US$123.8 billion.

　　Li Muyuan pointed out that the new western land-sea corridor provides more space for cooperation between China and ASEAN.

As a trade corridor directly connecting the vast hinterland of China and the ASEAN region, the New Western Land-Sea Corridor will usher in more demand for cargo transportation stimulated by RCEP.

As the current labor cost depression in China, the western region will become a key area for jointly building an industrial chain with RCEP member countries and deepening industrial cooperation and supply chain cooperation.

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