Direct to Europe! China Railway Express (Quanzhou-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).
At 10:00 in the morning, the Quanzhou Municipal People's Government and China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group Co., Ltd. jointly hosted the launching ceremony of the China Railway Express (Quanzhou-Moscow). Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Cai Zhansheng attended the launching ceremony and announced the official departure of the China Railway Express (Quanzhou-Moscow). Deputy Mayor Wang Zhihong and Nanchang Railway Bureau Zhangzhou Depot Director Jiang Mingfu delivered speeches respectively. Zhang Yekun, General Manager of Sinotrans Fujian Company, introduced the train project on behalf of the temporary train operation platform. Zhang Xiaohong, Director of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, presided over the event. Leaders of the Provincial Department of Commerce, Quanzhou Customs, China Railway Nanchang Bureau and relevant departments and units directly under the municipality, leaders in charge of the counties (cities, districts, management committees), responsible comrades of the competent commercial departments, Zhongquan Group, Sinotrans South China and the train operation platform companies 120 people in charge of the Fujian branch, representatives of companies exporting goods on the first train, and representatives of some key export companies, logistics companies and business associations in the city attended the event.
Quanzhou is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, as well as an important strategic fulcrum city and a pioneering area. It is rich in private economic 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 is another major progress of our city's expansion of opening up 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".
Our city will take this opportunity to accelerate the construction of Huangtang Station of Xingquan Railway, build a multimodal logistics hub center, focus on building a modern circulation system of "channel + hub + network", adhere to government guidance, market leadership, and enterprise main body. High standards, sustainability and marketization are the basic principles to follow, fully stimulate the creativity and competitiveness of the China-Europe trains in Quanzhou, promote the normal and long-term effect of the trains, and empower enterprises in Quanzhou and surrounding areas to go global and seize the market, and promote The city's open economy has moved to a higher level.
