On the afternoon of May 20th, with the sound of the whistle, a Central Asia train (Zhengding Station-Almaty) full of 45 containers drove out from the Zhengding Freight Yard of Shijiazhuang Freight Center of China Railway Beijing Bureau Group Co., Ltd., passing through Horgo It is expected to arrive at Almaty, the central city of Kazakhstan, in about 12 days.
This is the first time that the China (Hebei) Pilot Free Trade Zone Zhengding area has opened a Central Asia train. Hardware products, household appliances, bicycle accessories, wire mesh products, children's toys, agricultural tools and other commodities will be transported to the "Belt and Road" through the "steel camel team". For countries along the route, the cargo weighs 628 tons and the value of the cargo is about 7 million yuan.
The train was jointly organized by the China Railway Group Beijing Bureau Group Shijiazhuang Freight Center, the Zhengding Area Management Committee of the China (Hebei) Pilot Free Trade Zone, and Hebei Gangtong Logistics Co., Ltd. In order to ensure the smooth operation of trains, Shijiazhuang Freight Center has made comprehensive and meticulous arrangements for all aspects of the operation, concentrated various professional and technical forces, and jointly studied and formulated the operation plan. Zhengding Customs took the initiative to understand the demands of block train operators, and provided round-the-clock online services for block train operators. It immediately formulated a convenient supervision plan for the goods on the block train entering and leaving the Shijiazhuang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and provided block train goods to enter the comprehensive bonded area to gather and enjoy preferential policies for enterprises. The convenience, effectively improve the timeliness of customs clearance of goods.
The Management Committee of Zhengding District has taken the lead in connecting with and visiting China National Railway Group for many times, actively organizing and coordinating with relevant provincial and municipal departments to promote the opening of trains, actively connecting with operating companies, and providing free trade zones and comprehensive bonded areas for foreign trade companies that take trains for export Preferential policies, think what the company thinks, and be anxious about the company's urgency, to ensure the successful operation of the train. The Municipal Bureau of Commerce actively promotes train transportation resources, promotes foreign trade and cross-border e-commerce enterprises to connect with them, and builds a platform for the integrated development of foreign trade and logistics enterprises.
This "steel camel team" connected the new international trade channel, opened up new opportunities for the "Belt and Road" economic cooperation for the Zhengding area, ensured the stability and smoothness of the supply chain of the city's foreign trade industry chain, and accelerated the in-depth integration into the "Belt and Road" pattern . The Zhengding area will organize more international trains to Europe, Russia and Southeast Asia in the future, accelerate the creation of an institutional environment that serves the development of export-oriented economies and export-oriented enterprises, attract more foreign trade enterprises to gather, and strive to create new advantages in international cooperation and competition. Efforts will be made to realize a new pattern of opening up to the outside world on a larger scale, in a wider field, and at a deeper level.