China-European liner train: promoting high-quality joint construction of "Belt and Road"
Recently, the State Council Information Office held a press conference to release a white paper entitled "Building a Belt and Road Initiative: A Major Practice in Building a Community of Human Destiny". The white paper details the fruitful achievements of the "Belt and Road" initiative over the past 10 years, which has attracted high recognition and strong reactions from the international community. As a landmark project of the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, the achievements of China-EU shuttle trains have attracted extensive attention from domestic and foreign media.
Connecting Asia and Europe, China-European liner creates a new pattern of international transportation. The long railroad line connects the vast markets in Asia and Europe and opens the door for win-win cooperation. Over the past ten years, China-European liner has grown from scratch to strong, and has reached more than 200 cities in 25 countries in Europe, with 86 routes running at 120 kilometers per hour crossing the main areas in the hinterland of Asia and Europe, and the logistics and distribution network covering the Eurasian continent. Riding on the east wind of the "Belt and Road" initiative, the co-constructing countries join hands and work together to connect infrastructure facilities, build service platforms, construct consolidation centers, improve the efficiency of customs clearance, form a modern logistics hub, and promote the continuous improvement and upgrading of the China-Europe liner train. The China-European Union (CEU) liner has tightly linked Asia and Europe together, opened up a new channel for land transportation between Asia and Europe and a new bridge for economic and trade cooperation, and has become a symbolic brand of building the "One Belt, One Road" together.
The China-European Union (CEU) train has opened up a new field of mutual benefit and win-win situation. Over the past ten years, the goods shipped to the European continent through the China-European Union liner have expanded from computers and cell phones to 53 categories of automobiles, machinery and equipment, electronic products, etc., while the goods shipped from Europe to China have expanded from timber and automobiles to electromechanical products, foodstuffs and medical equipments, etc., with the number of cargoes and categories of cargoes continuing to increase, and the space for cooperation in more emerging fields gradually opening up. New opportunities in the new era, from "hard connectivity" of infrastructure to "soft connectivity" of rules and standards, and then to "heart connectivity" of people along the routes, the China-Europe liner train has been gathering international consensus and cohesive strength of all parties, contributing to the construction of a common country. It has gathered international consensus, gathered the strength of all parties, led the way for the development of economic and trade cooperation among countries and regions, and opened up a number of new areas of win-win cooperation and bright prospects, with a very broad development prospect.
In March 2011, the first China-European Union (CEU) liner "YuXinEU" was successfully launched, and in November 2014, the first "YiXinEU" CEU liner was officially opened. Up to now, the cumulative number of China-EU trains has exceeded 78,000, carrying more than 7.4 million TEUs of cargo. No matter it is windy and sunny or snowy, the China-European Union liner has been running for ten years as one day, with bagpipes singing and going forward. Over the past ten years, China-EU Linjiang has been insisting on professionalism, dedication, joint construction and sharing, aiming at high standard, sustainability and benefiting the people's livelihood, and advancing along the direction of high-quality development, constructing an all-weather, large-capacity, green and low-carbon channel, and playing an important role in the creation of a global community of destiny. The China-EU shuttle train is a vivid practice of transforming the "Belt and Road" Initiative from a vision to a reality. From planning to fine-tuning, it has borne solid and heavy fruits, and written a new chapter of creating a better future for the commonwealth of the world.
Thousands of years ago, the melodious camel bells on the desert shook out the prelude to the exchanges between the East and the West, supporting the prosperity of the Silk Road. Thousands of years later, the "steel camel caravan" galloped and shuttled, displaying passion and speed, realizing the handshake across Asia and Europe. In the beautiful picture of prosperity, wealth, strength and common development, the China-European liner has been persistent, creating a safe and efficient transportation channel, and helping the high-quality co-construction of the "One Belt, One Road" to move steadily into the future.
