Direct to Europe! China Railway Express (Fujian-Moscow) successfully launched
At 10:30 on January 18, with the whistle of the train, the 75010/09 China-Europe train, carrying 50 40-foot containers full of Quanzhou local products, slowly departed from Quanzhou East Station, and will pass through Manzhouli all the way north. The exit of the port to Moscow, Russia marked the successful start of the China Railway Express (Quanzhou-Moscow).
Quanzhou is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, an important strategic fulcrum city and a pioneering area, rich in private economic and industrial clusters, and is the main source of goods in Fujian Province. Three titles of National Express Demonstration City. In recent years, with the rapid development of Quanzhou's foreign trade, Quanzhou's foreign trade partners have covered six continents, building an international economic and trade cooperation model with Southeast Asia, the European Union, Russia and other countries and regions, and gradually forming a global industrial ecosystem. The annual trade volume of countries (regions) along the "Maritime Silk Road" exceeds 100 billion yuan. In the next five years, our city will give full play to the cultural characteristics of "Maritime Silk", actively integrate into the core area of Fujian Haisi, undertake the mission of building a "Famous Maritime Silk City" in the 21st century, and create a new prosperity of "the sound of rising seas and businessmen from all over the world"; Build an important gateway on the Maritime Silk Road, weave a dense sales network of "buy the world, sell the world", build an industrial and commercial center facing Southeast Asia, and build a global consumer goods collection center.
The opening of the China-Europe Railway Express in Quanzhou is another major breakthrough for our city to actively integrate into the national "Belt and Road" initiative and the new development pattern of the international and domestic "dual circulation", and to continuously explore innovative practices. It has built a new bridge of openness and cooperation for our city to expand economic and trade exchanges with Eurasia, and will surely inject new vitality into Quanzhou's deep integration into the "Belt and Road" and the international and domestic "dual circulation".
In order to ensure the smooth operation of the China-Europe freight train, China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group Co., Ltd. cooperated with the vehicle, freight, dispatching and other departments to open up green transportation channels for enterprises, and actively contacted the customs supervision, epidemic prevention and quarantine departments to complete customs declarations in the cargo yard, Check, release, transport, quarantine and other procedures to make full preparations for the transport of outbound goods. The train departs from Quanzhou East Station, exits through Manzhouli Border Station, and goes directly to Moscow, Russia, with a total journey of 10,960 kilometers and an estimated time of 20 days. Compared with the original shipping method, the transportation time can be saved by 25 days.