A container cargo ship docked at Tianjin Port and is about to depart for Pakistan.

Tianjin Port Group

At Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport in Henan Province, Zhongyuan Longhao Cargo Air carried 99.76 tons of export goods to Chennai, India. The export goods were electronic products, auto parts, etc.

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A Central Asia train departs from Chongqing Tuanjie Village Central Station.

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Source: Ministry of Commerce and Customs

Shipping hubs play an important role in international economic and trade cooperation, as well as a window to observe economic and trade exchanges.The cross-border logistics system built by sea and air transport hubs and other transport hubs builds up the interconnected economic and trade channel between China and other countries of the SCO.

Connectivity has been continuously strengthened, helping the SCO's economic and trade cooperation to a new level. In the first seven months of this year, China's imports and exports to other SCO member states were 2.11 trillion yuan, an increase of 3% year-on-year, and the scale reached a record high in the same period. Trade data continue to rise, confirming the vitality and resilience of the win-win cooperation of the "SCO family".

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Tianjin Port

Maritime routes, reaching many SCO countries

Our reporter, Jin Bo

The early morning sun shines on the container terminal of Section C of Tianjin Port's Beijiang Port Area. Under the precise control of the intelligent dispatch system, the automated shore bridge gently picks up containers from the cargo ship to "queue up and disembark", and then un-trucks collect and transport them to the container yard under the guidance of the Beidou navigation system. These containers contain 190 tons of sesame seeds from Pakistan. These imported sesame seeds will go through cleaning, drying, squeezing and other processes, and eventually turn into sesame oil and serve on the table of Chinese people.

More attractive to us is that Pakistan, as one of the countries of the SCO, also signed a free trade agreement with China, using the certificate of origin to declare to the customs, the import tariff rate of cinnamon from 10% to zero.

Thousands of miles away, a large cargo ship full of steel pipes arrived from the port of Tianjin to the port of Karachi in Pakistan after a month of sailing. With a certificate of origin issued by Tianjin Customs, the steel pipes received a tariff discount of 4.5 percent at Pakistan Customs.

Tianjin port with more than 500 ports in the worldins shipping trade, and is also one of the most convenient outbound ports of some of the SCO countries located in the heart of the Eurasian continent, the sea routes reach several countries of the SCO. With the unique advantage of the area, more and more SCO country goods are concentrated in Tianjin port: in July this year with Russia, India and Pakistan three SCO member states completed import and export containers of a total of 22,9 million standard boxes, the product category covers agricultural products, minerals, automobiles and accessories, mechanical and electrical equipment, etc. Tianjin port is also the preferred place for the export of car companies in the region of Xinjiang, according to customs statistics, in July this year, Tianjin port to the SCO country export vehicles of

"The number of container ships from SCO countries has increased significantly. There are 14 routes to the three member states of Russia, India and Pakistan alone, and an average of about 10 container ships visit Tianjin Port every week. Sea routes have been opened with seven SCO dialogue partner countries, many of which are operated on a weekly basis," said Liu Xin, senior manager of route management at the Tianjin Port joint stock company.

"We are strengthening cooperation with SCO countries in international logistics hubs and striving to open more foreign trade routes, ocean trunk lines, and iron-iron combined freight trains." Chu Bin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Tianjin Port (Group) Co., Ltd. said.

On August 25, a Central Asia train loaded with 55 containers departed from Tianjin Container Center Station and headed to Kustanai, Kazakhstan. Tianjin Port has formed a logistics network of "sea + railway", expanding transportation services to Central Asia, providing full logistics services from Tianjin Port to Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Almaty, Kazakhstan. While bringing sea cargo to Eurasia, Tianjin Port has deeply developed the return cargo collection of Central Asia trains, allowing special goods such as grain and mineral products to accelerate the circulation on the railway channel.

In the seven months of this year, Tianjin's import and exports to the SCO countries reached 533,7 billion yuan, up 5.2% from the same period last year, accounting for 11.3% of Tianjin's gross import and export value in the same period.

Henan Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport

Flight traffic increases and frequency increases.

Our reporter Zhu Peixian

At 14 a.m. on August 27, a cargo plane from Russia had just landed at Zhengzhou International Airport in Hanoi, and ground personnel were immediately busy. Following an orderly operation of the elevator, 26.5 tons of cargo was delivered into the cargo cabin. After 2 hours, the cargo aircraft took off again and returned to Russia.

"From the brushing of dishes, to household appliances, foreign consumers order through overseas e-commerce platforms, order goods in Zhengzhou and package, and a few days later can be received."

At 20:00 on the same day, another cargo plane from Uzbekistan landed at Xinzheng International Airport, which also returned full of Chinese-made goods.

In Zhengzhou Xinzheng Comprehensive Bonded Zone, large trucks enter and exit in an orderly manner. Walking into the warehousing workshop, the staff are skillfully inspecting, sorting, warehousing, and then distributing and packing the products. Cross-border e-commerce packages are gathered and distributed here, and go to all parts of the world.

"We have more frequent cargo exchanges with other SCO member states such as Russia and Uzbekistan." said Zhao Jing, deputy director of Zhengzhou Airport Customs. Zhengzhou Airport customs supervision data shows that the number of cargo routes from Zhengzhou to other SCO member states has increased to 5, and the flight density has increased to 32 flights per week.

New destinations continue to open, route networks continue to weave dense, higher efficiency, better service, Zhengzhou airport port expansion and quality, to build a bridge for economic and trade cooperation. As of the end of July this year, Zhengzhou airport area cross-border e-commerce has completed the declaration of import and export orders about 150 million orders, an increase of 81.03%, of which cross-border e-commerce export business orders exceeded 120 million orders, an increase of 128.6%.

The efficient flow of people, logistics, and capital has led to a significant increase in trade and investment exchanges. Zhengzhou City Liangang Industrial Co., Ltd. exports building materials and accessories to Central Asia, and also invested in building a Central Asian commodity exhibition and exhibition center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In early August, a delegation of 15 private enterprises from Zhengzhou City went to Moscow, Russia to conduct economic and trade exchanges and achieved many results. On August 14, the China (Zhengzhou)-Russia (Moscow) Economic and Trade Cooperation and Exchange Conference was held in Zhengzhou. Representatives of 96 local private enterprises in Zhengzhou City attended the meeting.

This is inseparable from the help of a series of customs clearance facilitation policies. This year, Zhengzhou was selected as a pilot city for the special action of cross-border trade facilitation, and relevant departments launched special support for the export of different types of products. For the export of new energy products, Zhengzhou Customs promotes visa facilitation, and realizes "second examination and second signing, and online issuance" of certificates of origin. Zhengzhou Airport District Administrative Service Center has specially set up a window of "first-class things" for foreign trade, integrating 14 high-frequency items into "first-class things" for foreign trade, greatly improving work efficiency.

Starting from Zhengzhou, there are many ways for "Made in China" to reach other SCO member states-from direct rail transportation, air transportation, and land transportation, to "air, rail, land and sea" combined transportation and other combinations. According to Zhengzhou Customs statistics, in the first half of this year, Henan Province's import and export volume to other SCO member states was 45.62 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 59.7%.

Chongqing Solidarity Village Central Station

Central Asia freight trains, fixed frequency and regular operation

The reporter is delighted.

On August 24, Chongqing Tuanjie Village Central Station was busy. A Central Asian train loaded with "Made in Chongqing" chemical products and auto parts was about to depart.

In the container, the goods produced by local enterprises in Chongqing, such as polyester cuts, will be arranged, they will leave the border through the port of Horgos, through Kazakhstan, and are expected to arrive in Uzbekistan, Sergey, and Churseyi for about 10 days.

The Tuding Central Asia train opened this time is the key layout for Chongqing to strengthen interconnection with SCO countries. In April this year, Chongqing issued Tuding Central Asia trains for the first time, and realized the normalization with a fixed frequency of two trains per month.

"In the past, Chongqing products exported to Central Asia, more dependent on the transportation model of the road and railway, affected by road conditions, customs linkage, and so on, the entire journey takes about 15 days; Now it is planned to normalize the operation of the Central Asian line, the time is greatly compressed, and the delivery cycle of enterprises can be more controlled," said Xu Meijiang, senior engineer of the Ministry of Freight of the State Railway and Metropolitan Administration.

"The main goods transported in the direction of Central Asia are polyester chips, communication equipment, etc.; the main goods transported in the return journey are barley, wheat, corn, etc.," said Zhang Ruiyu, sales manager of the marketing center of Yuxinou (Chongqing) Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd.

With the advantages of stable and efficient channels, China-Europe (Central Asia) trains are becoming one of the important logistics links connecting China and other SCO member states, effectively promoting inter-regional economic and trade cooperation and interconnection.

"Because of the limited plan of the Central Asian line, the transport cycle is longer, it often takes about 2 months from receiving the customer's order to the final delivery." Chongqing Wang Kai New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. logistics manager Lin Qing said, "After the line has achieved normal operation, the transportation time is short and the cycle is guaranteed.

At present, Vancouver has gradually established a well-established warehousing and distribution network in the Central Asia region, including one tax warehouse and two warehouses, and has built an efficient regional distribution system.

As economic and trade relations become closer and closer, transportation hubs are constantly upgrading.

The project was successfully completed and the operation was opened, the new 9 lines, the average vehicle capacity increased by 9%, the disassembly number increased by 5% from the Central European train, Central Asian train, and other international trains from the unified village center station, are responsible for the organization of this train station is increasingly tight, our assignments are tight, but the job is better.""The driver Li Feng said that after the disassembly station has completed the energy expansion transformation, the timing of coordination is more efficient, as before waiting for the car to be adjusted, the "train lounge" phenomenon is less.

After the normal operation of the Central Asian line, the logistics timing efficiency of Chongqing to Central Asia increased by more than 20%, the single box cost decreased by 15%, the line point rate reached 98%. channel band logistics, logistics belt economy and trade, economic and trade belt industry. In June this year, Chongqing and the SCO local economic and trade cooperation negotiations will be held in Chongqing in 2025, and the procurement cooperation will reach 500 million yuan.

According to Chongqing Customs statistics, in July of this year, Chongqing imports and exports to other members of the SCO 345.5 billion yuan, the same growth of 7.7%; to other members of the SCO exports of mechanical and electrical products 29 billion yuan, the same growth of 4.5%, of which, laptop computers and motorcycles respectively exports 84.8 billion yuan, 16.1 billion yuan, the same growth of 19.3% and 78.9% respectively.

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People's Daily (September 01, 2025, edition 08)