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Original title: Why is the China-Europe Express train so popular this year Source: CCTV News Client
“Flying against the wind” 丨 It is difficult to find a cabin and make reservations for the lottery Why is the China-Europe Express train so popular this year?
The latest data shows that from January to November this year, China-Europe freight trains opened a total of 11,215 lines with 1,024 million TEU, an increase of 50% and 56% year-on-year respectively, and the comprehensive rate of containers. heavy was 98.4%. China-Europe express trains continue to operate at a high level, having maintained double-digit growth for nine consecutive months since March and since May they have operated more than 1,000 trains in a single month for seven consecutive months. Among them, the China-Europe freight train “Chang’an” opened a total of 3,441 in the first 11 months of this year, with a total cargo weight of about 2.64 million tons, and its comprehensive indicators such as the volume of Traffic, heavy container rate, and cargo volume ranked first in the country.
More cargo and less space, trucks line up
Xie Rui: If you have one container every day, you can load seven or eight when you are busy. All are uploaded here. Since you have too much work, you have to progress. There are all kinds of goods sent by customers.
Journalist: Can you now give it as many boxes as you want?
Xie Rui: Basically, there is more cargo and less space.
Xie Rui came to an international freight forwarding company in June and became the head of the loading and unloading department. The company’s turnover has increased considerably this year. He told the Voice of China reporter that it is common to be busy until the middle of the night. “I would get up at 6:30 every morning, then open my eyes and get busy. I was busy until two or three in the morning, picking up, shipping and packing.”
At the gate to the loading yard, trucks waiting to be unloaded lined up. Lei Jun, a container truck driver who helped Xie Rui on the sidelines, said that since the beginning of this year, the popularity of China-Europe Express has kept truck drivers busy. “Sometimes it can take up to four or five hours to enter the station. Because there are too many vehicles, the cargo volume is too large. There is no way to enter the station, so the queue is inevitable.”
Xi’an West Railway Station New Station: “Changan” Has Explosive Growth This Year
Affected by the epidemic, many sea and air cargoes have accelerated their transfer to rail transport. Transport demand from China-Europe Express Express remained strong. Along with seasonal reasons at the end of the year, the port’s transfer capacity has decreased. “In the case of” Newly built to Tashkent “and other popular trains, seats must be” reserved by lottery “.
The strong increase in demand has outpaced the growth in capacity. Bai Kuanfeng, director of Xinzhu Station, told the Voice of China reporter: “Since the China-Europe and Central Asia trains were launched in 2013, it used to be basically one train per week. There will be one column per day. By 2019 There will be basically 3 columns per day. By 2020, this year, there will be four to six columns per day. At most, there will be 9 columns per day. The growth is explosive. “
The China-Europe Express has transported 8.36 million anti-epidemic materials, 69,000 tons
Part of Xie Rui’s loading and unloading must be shipped through Xi’an West Station. At the station’s security production command center, Deputy Director Wang Chao stared at the big screen in front of him. This is the “Central Brain” of the “Chang’an”. From 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next day, Wang Chao had to make an average of more than 150 phone calls to coordinate the shipment in order to scientifically organize the capacity and ship, reinforce and inspect the goods as as fast as possible.
Wang Chao said: “I once got a call in the evening, shortly after 1:00 in the morning, saying it was his help to send a full list of anti-epidemic supplies to Milan, Europe. The next morning, the owner was there around 7 am. A total of 45 containers were brought to our Xinzhu station. We loaded the containers from the wagon to our train and then reinforced it. In three hours, it was around 10 am The 7501 China-Europe train, loaded with 400,000 masks and 949,000 tonnes of meltblown cloth, slowly left Xinzhu station and headed for Milan, Italy. “
During the epidemic, the China-Europe Express Train, which maintained a high level of operation, not only opened the economic corridor on the Eurasian continent, but also became a “passage of life” for the transportation of anti-epidemic supplies. . The Voice of China reporter learned exclusively from the head of the National Railway Group cargo department that in the first 11 months of this year, China-Europe Express has transported 8.36 million anti-epidemic materials and 69,000 tons. With the high-quality launch of “Chang’an”, foreign products have also entered the Chinese market smoothly during the epidemic.
Liu Dongmeng, Undersecretary of the Aiju Group Party Committee, said: “During the epidemic, land transportation was basically stagnant. In fact, as Xi’an is a central city, the demand for food has also increased considerably. At this time, , the real shortage of raw materials and flour is great. Yes. We are from Kazakhstan. We mobilized resources there and built our new station, including our China-Europe train. During the epidemic, the flour from 4 special trains was shipped to China, which which ensured the supply of the market in Xi’an. The main channel is very fluid. During the epidemic, the operation of the China-Europe Railway Express was not affected. “
“Chang’an” has become a complex
Xi’an Aiju Grain and Oil Industry Group is the main customer of Xie Rui’s import business. Benefiting from the innovation of “manifest merger” and “bulk grain transportation”, bulk grains can be shipped directly in containers and bulk products can be consolidated and declared. Liu Dongmeng, deputy secretary of the Aiju Group Party Committee, said with emotion that it originally took more than two months to import fats and oils from Russia. After the opening of the China-Europe train, it only takes a week to transport it back from the group’s base in Kazakhstan. For companies that have been committed to “going out” for many years, the stable and efficient “Changan” has become a complex.
Liu Dongmeng told the Voice of China reporter: “The first is about the China-Europe Express, the speed it brings to businesses, this is beyond imagination; second, the low cost is the cost of transportation and time. Hurry, the third is that the China-Europe Express has become a symbol now. It is not just a freight channel, but more people along the ‘Belt and Road’. Culture. “
China-Europe Express: High-quality transformation
From Central Asian agricultural and secondary products such as edible oil, flour, honey and mung beans, to German cookware, Dutch milk powder, heavy trucks, cars and manufacturing parts, the freight categories of China-Europe trains Express continues to expand, and the number of routes and cities open increases year by year. , The transport network has reached 92 cities in 21 countries in Europe. Many Chinese manufacturing companies such as Longji, Shaanxi Automobile Heavy Truck, Shaangu Power, Fast and other Chinese manufacturers took the “Express” from the “Changan”, and the “Audi Imported Train” and the “Volvo Imported Special Train” are also domestic. Consumers bring high-quality options. Liu Qiang, deputy director of the commercial department of Xi’an West Railway Station, who has worked in “Chang’an” for seven years, observes: “In 2013, we were exposed to the China-Europe Express origin categories. The categories were not particularly rich. Export materials were mainly from these industries. Mainly machinery, but as our country accelerates the pace of opening up to the outside world, our country’s light industrial products and high-end electronic products are gradually increasing. From the initial market cultivation, supply cultivation and China-Europe Express trains online cultivation. By 2020, our China-Europe trains are gradually transforming to high quality. “
Xie Rui, 30, from Weinan, Shaanxi, is a common longshoreman in the huge China-Europe Express “Changan” industrial chain. The company’s business is good and the income is good this year. He hopes to hire a few more people to help out next year. Under the night, in a warehouse of more than 10,000 square meters behind Xie Rui, there are huge containers stacked one after another, waiting for the exit.
Voice of China review
Withstanding the test of the epidemic and accelerating through adversity, the China-Europe express train has lit the torch of hope on the Eurasian continent and has become a new economic engine leading the “Belt and Road” initiative. Contribute to the new pattern of development. The continuous high-level operation of the China-Europe train has firmly supported the resumption of work and production of enterprises across the country, opened the main channel of the new Silk Road, reduced the impact of the epidemic on the global industrial chain and has also highlighted the need for the “Belt and Road” initiative. It has injected strong impetus to accelerate the recovery of the global economy and has become an exciting and stable transportation “holy needle” on the continent Eurasian.
Reporter 丨 Jiang Xiaochen, Liu Tao, Guo Miao
【Edit: Tian Boqun】
