Xinhua Silk Road: CEIS unveils report to better interpret "Xi'an experience" in developing China-Europe Railway Express services

BEIJING,Sept. 23,2024 -- China Economic Information Service (CEIS) of Xinhua News Agency released on Friday a report to better interpret how Xi'an City bolstered local China-Europe Railway Express services to contribute to Belt and Road construction in the past decade.

Debuting during China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) Global Partners Conference,the report presents not only a holistic view of the northwestern Chinese city's 10-year operation of China-Europe Railway Express services but also related development with a basket of detailed indicators.

From 2013 to 2023,Xi'an China-Europe Railway Express Assembly Center (Xi'an Assembly Center) had gone through a starting stage and a rapid growth stage and entered a pace-setting stage,with related freight train trips ranking high among its peers in China.

Different from 2016 when returning trips with cargo volumes accounted merely for a small proportion of all local China-Europe Railway Express trips,an around 45 percent share was frequent to see for the city in recent three years.

Other indicators such as rate of cargoes packed in containers of a freight train service trip,service efficiency,goods category,coverage area,total import and export value,etc. are also incorporated to recreate the factual situations.

Photo shows the train trips for China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) in 2013-2023.

With annual trips exceeding 5,000 ones,Xi'an,capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province,has crafted itself into one of the leading cities in developing China-Europe Railway Express services at home and abroad with well-built infrastructure,wide route coverage,high operation efficiency,low comprehensive costs,quality services and strong spillover effect.

The report attributes all of these to Xi'an's practices in boosting opening up and win-win cooperation with related parties at home and abroad and advancing service innovation and market-oriented operation of local China-Europe Railway Express services as well.

Upholding the development philosophy of opening up and joint contribution together with related Belt and Road partner countries,Xi'an brings the development benefits of China-Europe Railway Express services to more people,according to the report.

In the face of changing global situations in recent years,Xi'an Assembly Center opened up China-Europe railway cargo routes transcending the Caspian Sea,innovated railway-sea-railway multimodal transport modes and established related risk control systems,all of which helped build the resilient China-Europe freight transport channels.

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