Data sources: Ministry of Commerce, National Railways and Kunming Bureau

This year is the year of "14th Five-Year Plan" and during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the various departments of the various regions firmly grasp the strategic position in the overall development situation of the country, work first and fight first, ensure the high-quality completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" goal tasks, and create a new situation for economic and social development.

This edition today launched the "big data observation and reading "14th Five-Year" series of reports, focusing on the struggle story of the first line, exploring the development momentum from different levels of data growth, and the vivid practice of promoting high-quality development from the point to the face.

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North of China Yunnan Kunming, south to Laos, the entire length of 1035 kilometers of the old railway trains flew, became the "golden big channel" of China and ASEAN, radiation driving the surrounding economic development.

Since the opening in December 2021, the freight volume has increased by two digits for three consecutive years, with the number of passengers entering the country increasing from 300 per day to a maximum of 1,300 - the old railway, which was once questioned as "no cargo" and feared "no passenger", is now busy. As of the end of August, the cumulative freight volume of the old railway has exceeded 66.5 million tons, and the cross-border transport of goods has exceeded 3,000.

How did the old railroad cross-border cargo burn up?

In order to open the market, I bought a granite box.

The yearly Granolin transportation season is the busiest months of Zhang Yuan. In Yunnan, engaged in the cross-border freight industry, he did not expect that the line would be so burning ¨C in early 2023, there was still often no freight, now a hard-to-seek "champagne".

At the end of 2022, the opportunity to accompany the business expedition to Laos was given to Zhang Zheng, who had a good look at the old-fashioned rail freight market, once rented 100 new cold chain cabinets for the railway sector, and entered the cross-border freight industry.

In the beginning, it didn't work well. Zhang Zhonghye went to Kunming Kimma Jingcheng fruit wholesale market visiting cards, saw the fruit wholesalers gathered to present the company's business, can be busy for many days, not a single signature.

"This is not a matter of how much shipping costs." a granite importer, let Zhang Jiang realize: a warehouse granite goods worth 1 million yuan, shipping costs 40,000 yuan, if you can not guarantee the quality of transportation, no one will save some shipping costs, to risk the loss of millions of yuan goods.

Zhang Zheng heard that in the early days of the open railway freight, some people used the old cold chain warehouse for several times, the result because of the temperature control is not accurate, resulting in the entire warehouse granite loss. Therefore, there is a saying that "railway granite transportation is not reliable." can the road transportation is not so smooth. Not only the long time, but the granite listing period is in the rainy season, it is easy to cause the road disruption because of the falling stone; even to reach the border port of the two countries, it is still possible to encounter road congestion due to the concentration of cargo, many merchants can only look at granite road mature, the risk of loss of goods is high.

No merchant willing to take risks, Zhang Deye decided to buy himself a batch of granite, so that the merchant will see the truth.

At the start of the road, Zhang Jiang confirmed the location and temperature of the warehouse almost every three or four hours. After 26 hours, the new cold chain warehouse transported by the Zhang Jiang Railway arrived in Kunming, where the merchants were immediately informed of the purchase. When the two companies talked with Zhang Jiang, a warehouse owner decided on the spot to deliver six warehouses to the company where Zhang Jiang is located.

¡°Cold chain rail transportation of granit is more reliable,¡± quickly spread throughout the Yunnan granit trade circle. Zhang Zheng¡¯s company was busy, while the import and export of goods by the old rail in the middle of the year 2023, 421.77 million tons, almost 95% growth compared to the same year.

In order to improve operational capacity, more routes and customs are fast.

Guangzhou International Trade Co., Ltd. general manager Pan Chening has been engaged in cross-border granite trade for 10 years. Before the opening of the old railway, cross-border transportation is mainly dependent on land transportation, because of the use of the old-fashioned warehouse, the granite maturity difference at the end of the warehouse is obvious, the tail is even often open and the price is easily pressured to the market. "Pen Chening said, after the opening of the old railway, the new-fashioned railway cold chain warehouse can be positioned monitoring, long-distance adjustment, in the case of the shipping price difference is not large, the duration of transportation is greatly shortened, the loss rate of goods is also greatly reduced, "Return customers

¡°The safeguarding of the timing and quality of the cold chain patents for raw goods transportation is the biggest advantage of our company,¡± Zhang Zheng said, with a reputation and no regrets for customers. Today, the company¡¯s warehouse can run 3 times a month, 3 months of granite transportation season, bringing the main benefits to the company.

2024 is Zheng Heo company's "rich harvest year". in the summer Thailand suffered from drought, granite is still on the trees, can only be concentrated in advance harvesting, 3 months granite season compressed into 1 month, then as long as the cargo comes in, there is money to earn."Zheng Heo said, during that time, whether it is the road or the railway, granite transport "a closet difficult", he and the staff almost day and night not to stop working.

Looking into the off-season, last November, the typhoon "Kapra" attacked Southeast Asia, sea transport, roads almost paralyzed, all kinds of fresh goods flowed into the old railway. Cold chain train point of departure, point of arrival, the old railway became the only stable cross-border transportation channel.

The concentration of fresh goods on the market not only challenged cross-border carriers such as Zhang Jiang, but also tested customs capabilities. At the peak of Laos, there were almost 300 warehouses flooded, but only more than 100 warehouses were inspected.

"For the improvement of service operational capacity, customs innovation railway advance declaration model, the customs time of goods is reduced to 2 to 5 hours."Aralia customs railway port supervision department chief Sumin introduced, enterprise advance declaration, goods before entry customs receives customs reporting data, if no inspection requirement after entry, no stop can be customs.At the same time, the railway department has developed the "Long Mekong Express Line" international freight line program, the frequency of routes to increase to a single day 6 rows.

Statistics from Kunming Customs show that in the first half of this year, Yunnan's import and export of ASEAN agricultural products amounted to 186,2 billion yuan, an increase of 23.5% in comparison.

¡°Tropical fruit north¡± ¡°Sud of clouds¡±, there is a lot of potential to be excavated

The old rail freight explosion, generated a lot of jobs. When the warehouse arrived, the granite quality inspector Zaynang was responsible for the quality inspection of the granite to be sent to all over the country - the smell of the sound, the opening of the box taste, according to the color of fruit meat, fruit leather, and the season when a person can detect 10 cabinets a day. "

China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Co., Ltd. cargo head Zhu Jiang said that the South East Asian fruits of granite, granite, etc. were loved by the public, coupled with the railway capacity of China's old railway, the development of foreign cultivation, transportation and other related industries rapidly. in Thailand and other countries in recent years, granite large-scale expansion, of which more than 90 percent export granite sold to the Chinese market. As of the end of August this year, the transportation of granite of the old railway broke through 15.5 million tons, more than 90% of the same period last year.

At the same time, Yunnan vegetables also through the old railway to Laos supermarket shelves. Zhu Jiang introduced that Yunnan vegetables 26 hours can reach the best, the next day can be shipped to Thailand, save half of the time than car transportation. Yunnan Logistics Agricultural Products Co., Ltd took the old railway this "fast car", in recent years the volume of vegetable exports continued to climb, not only in Yunnan all over the country to acquire vegetables, but also in Yunnan, Shandong, Chongqing, China to build a total of 6,000 acres of planting base.

At present, the old railway cold chain line has been opened, and the two-way transportation channels for fruit and vegetables have been constructed.The two-way customs supervision department of Qingwei, Qingming Customs, has continued to deepen the application of the "centralized inspection + railway rapid customs" model, to help enterprises reduce the time to be inspected and logistics costs, and actively support the construction of "warm-to-warm return" cross-border corridors for vegetables.

In addition to vegetables, China's clothing, new energy vehicles, photovoltaic products are also best-selling in Southeast Asia. Today, China's old railway cross-border transportation commodity range has expanded from more than 500 in the early years to more than 3,000 in the present, the efficiency of the railway ports in the country's railway ports, has become the largest railway port connecting ASEAN. in the first half of this year, Yunnan province's total import and export of goods reached 1273,9 billion yuan.

¡°From the channel economy, port economy to the industrial economy, the middle-old railway along the line is changing.¡±Kunming University of Technology, Deputy Dean of the middle-old engineering and technology academy, ASEAN Research Center Director Bing Bing, introduced, China¡¯s milling, Laos milling and milling and other places are shifting from traditional agricultural towns to hub cities. China¡¯s Laos milling-milling economic cooperation area has attracted more than 300 enterprises, cold chain storage, milling processing, cross-border e-commerce and other upstream industries are gathering.

In the view of Zhang Deheu, "Nucleus Southern" is a great deal. After a short break, he plans to open up a new market while loading in the off-season.