China -EU trains support the global industrial chain supply chain "great arteries"

Since the China -Europe trains, the quality of operation has been steadily improved, and it has played a huge role in ensuring smooth logistics, stabilizing the international industrial chain supply chain, and supporting global resistance, and has become the flagship project and star brand that builds the “Belt and Road”.

The China -EU trains are the practice of building the "Belt and Road" innovation model to promote the in -depth development of economic globalization. The transportation of China and European countries has long been mainly through the sea and European routes. Although the stability is good and the transportation cost is low, the time cost is high. At the same time, due to the significant differences in the spacing of China, Russia, Western Europe and other places, the rules of land transportation have not reached an agreement. As a result, although railway transportation has time and cost advantages, it is difficult to become an important supplement to China -Europe transportation. Since the opening of the China -Europe trains, China has greatly improved the efficiency of rail replacement by strengthening cooperation with countries and regions along the route, and actively promoted new customs clearance models such as "Anchi Trade" and "Guan Tietong" to improve customs clearance efficiency and continuously reduce the cost of transportation in China and Europe. It provides a good economic benefit method for trade between China and Central Asia, Western Asia, and European countries. This is a typical example of coordinating cooperation and cooperation, reducing the cost of cross -border flow of goods and factors, and then relying on market forces to expand economic and trade cooperation. It provides important supplements for the traditional model of the market's own power to promote economic and trade cooperation in various countries. Development has injected new motivation.

In recent years, the number of China -Europe Class has continued to grow, and transportation goods have expanded to more than 50,000 species. The annual transport value has increased by about 9 times, and the proportion of the total trade in China and Europe has increased from 1.5%to 8%. Especially since the outbreak of new coronary pneumonia, maritime transportation channels have been severely blocked. In this context, the advantages of China -EU trains have a short transportation time and high degree of loading and unloading facilitation, which has become an important channel for Asian and Europe to transport, and effectively supports the global industrial chain supply chain "large arteries". Make positive contributions. More importantly, China -EU trains regard epidemic prevention materials as key transport targets. Through organizational models such as traffic prevention materials, they have continuously transported Chinese -produced epidemic prevention materials to European countries and have been widely praised by the international community.

For a long time, compared with the coastal areas, China's inland areas have launched a high cost of logistics in foreign trade, making it difficult for it to integrate into the international cycle. After the opening of the China -Europe trains, the cost of foreign trade in the majority of inland regions decreased significantly, the degree of integration into the international cycle continued to rise, and the attractiveness of global high -quality elements has also continued to increase. Driven by the new open platforms such as China -EU trains, the foreign trade volume of Sichuan, Chongqing and other provinces and cities has continued to grow rapidly, and it has changed from the past open "hinterland" to an open front. For example, in 2021, Sichuan Province's foreign trade volume reached 951.36 billion yuan, ranking 8th in the country; attracting foreign direct investment in the country to US $ 3.36 billion, ranking 10th in the country.

The international transportation rules system is one of the important parts of global governance and is of great significance for promoting economic and trade cooperation between countries. Maritime transportation has taken a long -term dominant position in international transportation, forming a maritime transportation rules system from freight document format to freight proxy rules to ship financing rules. Data such as logistics, banking, customs, government and other data are difficult to communicate and recognize credit, which affects logistics efficiency, supply chain efficiency and financing costs. It also objectively restricts the development of international land transportation. In practice, the China -EU trains actively apply advanced technologies such as blockchain, and gradually formed a "one -single" transportation mode, promoting China -EU trains to no longer need to replace transport orders during international transportation, reducing the operation time and capital costs. From the middle and long term, this "one -order" model is completely likely to be promoted in more countries and larger scope, becoming a global cross -border railway transportation rule, and has made unique contributions to the facilitation of international transportation.

(Li Dawei, the author is the director and researcher of the Emerging Economy Research Office of the Institute of Foreign Economic Research Institute of China Macroeconomic Research Institute)

Original title: Show the strong vitality of the "Belt and Road" (open talk)

"People's Daily Overseas Edition" (06th edition of July 19, 2022)

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