China News Agency, Nanning, December 21 (Chen Qiuxia, Yang Chen) The China-ASEAN Multimodal Transport Development Forum was held in Nanning, Guangxi on the 20th in a combination of online and offline.

  The theme of this forum is "Building China-ASEAN Multimodal Transport Alliance and Boosting the High-Quality Development of the New Land-Sea Corridor".

Government officials, well-known experts and scholars, representatives of associations, and representatives of entrepreneurs from the fields of economy and trade, logistics, transportation, and digital economy of China and ASEAN countries attended the forum.

  The guests at the meeting focused on "strengthening the interconnection of transportation facilities between China and ASEAN, building a multimodal transport network hardware foundation", "promoting the convergence of multimodal transport standards and rules between China and ASEAN, and building an information exchange and sharing platform", "multimodal transport is promoting Discussions and exchanges on topics such as the important role played in the integration of industrial chains, supply chains, and value chains".

  At the forum, representatives from Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group Co., Ltd., China COSCO Shipping Group Co., Ltd., Guangxi Xinzhong Industrial Investment Co., Ltd., Guangxi Airport Management Group Co., Ltd., Singapore PSA International Port Group, and China Wulian Logistics Planning Research Institute A memorandum of "jointly building China-ASEAN Multimodal Transport Alliance" was signed.

  According to the memorandum, the signing parties will rely on the construction of the New Land-Sea Corridor to actively jointly build the China-ASEAN Multimodal Transport Alliance, as well as align industry policies, promote industry exchanges, promote standard convergence, strengthen information interaction, optimize transportation organization, strengthen facility interconnection, and promote Strengthen cooperation in areas such as integration and innovation.

  Li Yanqiang, chairman of Guangxi Beibu Gulf Port International Port Group Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech.

Li Yanqiang said that the Beibu Gulf Port has successfully built a national multimodal transport demonstration project, and built two major multimodal transport channel backbone projects of "Southwest-Beibu Gulf-ASEAN" and "Southwest-Beibu Gulf-Coastal China".

Beibu Gulf Port will focus on hub construction, sea-rail combined transport, route development, and platform building, and strive to build a multimodal transport logistics system of "channel + hub + network" to comprehensively support the high-quality development of new channels.

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