Government officials and business leaders focusing especially on Europe-bound express shipments Freight train services connecting China and Europe will further enrich the global supply chains and heighten the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative in coming years, according to government officials and business leaders. The officials and business leaders made their comments after…
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VIENTIANE — The power supply project for the China-Laos Railway was put into operation as the electricity was transmitted from the Khoksaad substation on the outskirts of Lao capital Vientiane to the Vientiane South Traction Substation of the China-Laos Railway on Sunday. The power supply project for the China-Laos Railway is the first BOT (build-operate-transfer)…
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The last batch of steel rails for the construction of Indonesia’s Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway arrived at port in Indonesia on Tuesday, marking a milestone in the railway’s the construction, project operator China State Railway Group said on Wednesday. The cargo was transported to Fangchenggang Port in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region by rail and…
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A freight train of the China-Europe Railway Express departs from Wuwei, Northwest China’s Gansu province, for London recently. [Photo by Xu Letian] Recently, Gansu’s first freight train departed from Wuwei South Railway Station, northwest of China’s Gansu province, headed for London. It carried a load of 50 forty-foot equivalent unit (FEU) containers of goods,…
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Nearly 35 million passenger trips were made on the national railway network during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday travel rush from Saturday to Tuesday, with the peak falling on Sunday, China State Railway Group said on Wednesday. The number of passenger trips was 48 million during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019, before the COVID-19 epidemic broke…
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CHENGDU – A new China-Europe freight train route linking southwest China’s Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, with the Polish port city of Gdansk, was launched Friday. The first cargo train carrying goods such as furniture, household appliances, and machinery and equipment departed from Chengdu on Friday to Gdansk, the largest city and most important seaport…
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OPENING-UP The development of an open economy is the main aim behind Changsha’s creation of an opening-up base. During the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), Changsha faced a complex domestic and foreign environment and increased awareness of opening-up with a series of measures such as the “30 Industrial Regulations” and “16 Foreign Investment Regulations”. Based on…
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China will support the orderly opening of cargo airports, and explore and implement trials for transshipment of international containers and consolidation services at key seaports during its 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), said a senior Customs official on Thursday. At a news conference in Beijing, Dang Yingjie, deputy director-general of the National Office of Port…
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Qingbaijiang district in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, has achieved outstanding results in its support for the Belt and Road Initiative and regional economic development. It has done so by making full use of Chengdu International Railway Port. After starting operations in 2013, the China-Europe (Chengdu) Railway Express, departing from the railway port, now outperforms…
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A more streamlined customs clearance procedure has been implemented for China-Europe freight trains to boost efficiency, according to customs authorities in Southwest China’s Chongqing. On Friday, the first outbound train using the new procedure departed Urumqi, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, bound for Germany and Austria, while the first inbound train entered China…
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