The “China-Laos International Train” from the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone to Vientiane, Laos, was launched in Qingdao
Shandong’s first Qilu “China-Laos International Train” departed from Qingdao.Photo by Xi Fuchun
Qingdao Daily, December 9th, at 11 o’clock this morning, a train full of tires, daily necessities and other goods pulled out of the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in the Shanghai Demonstration Zone, marking the Qilu “China-Laos International Train” ( The first train in the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone-Vientiane, Laos) was officially launched. This is also the first international train from Shandong Province after the completion of the China-Laos Railway. This train has a total of 50 TEUs, carrying goods worth 1.18 million U.S. dollars, leaving the country through Yunnan Mohan Railway Port, and is expected to arrive in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, within 7 days.
The Qilu “China-Laos International Train” (Shanghe Demonstration Zone-Vientiane, Laos) is another route to Southeast Asian countries opened by the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone, following the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone-Hanoi Line in Vietnam. After the opening of the line, it will gradually cover cities in Vientiane, Laos, Bangkok, Laem Chabang, Myanmar, Yangon, etc., compared with traditional shipping methods, which can save enterprises more than half of the transportation time, further reduce transportation costs, and provide more space. Realize the effective allocation of resources and provide a new path for China-Laos bilateral trade cooperation. “The cargoes carried by this train in Shandong include Dongying and Weihai tires, Zibo ceramic tiles and mugs, etc. It will drive more’Made in Shandong’ to the world in the future.” The relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone Management Committee said .
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Laos. The China-Laos Railway was fully operational on December 3. The China-Laos Railway is an important project for the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative and Laos’ strategy of “turning a land-locked country into a land-union country”. It is also a joint construction project. After the “Belt and Road” initiative was put forward, the first international railway to be invested and constructed by China, adopting Chinese technical standards, using Chinese equipment, and directly connecting with the Chinese railway network. The SCO Demonstration Zone, as an important coastal logistics hub connecting Japan and South Korea to the Asia-Pacific in the east, Mongolia and Russia in the north, ASEAN in the south, and the SCO countries and the countries along the “Belt and Road” route in the west, is responsible for the interconnection between China and SCO countries. Important task. When the China-Laos railway was opened, the SCO Demonstration Zone actively unblocked the logistics channels between the SCO countries and ASEAN countries, and made every effort to build a carrier for local economic and trade cooperation between the SCO and RCEP countries. The smooth opening of the Qilu “China-Laos International Train” is an important measure for the SCO Demonstration Zone to expand foreign economic and trade cooperation and seize the policy opportunities of the RCEP agreement. It is of positive significance to promote multilateral economic and trade cooperation between SCO countries and ASEAN.
“At present, the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone has opened 24 international and domestic trains on a regular basis, including 15 international trains such as the Japan-Korea Land-Sea Express, Central Asia and China Europe, which are accessible to the SCO and 20 along the’Belt and Road’ route. 48 cities in each country.” Xiang Zhiqiang, deputy director of the management committee of the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone, said that in order to accelerate the construction of a large international logistics channel, the demonstration zone has continuously innovated new international logistics models and opened the “Shanghai Cooperation Express Line” to the SCO countries. Point-to-point trains, “Japan-Korea Land-Sea Express Line”, “Lu-Europe Express Line”, etc. have realized schedule and normal operation; issued Shandong Province’s first “one-order” CIFA (China International Freight Forwarders Association) bill of lading, and accumulated nearly completed rail bill of lading financing. One million U.S. dollars. Statistics show that in the first 11 months of this year, the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone opened 524 China-Europe freight trains, a year-on-year increase of 45.6%; the completed container operation volume was 801,000 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 17.3%. (Qingdao Daily/Guanhai News reporter Xi Fuchun, correspondent Cao Wenchao and Wang Shan)