Through the ages, many famous cities have fallen silent with the vicissitudes of history. However, Bashu has experienced countless years of baptism and witnessed thousands of changes. Located in the southwest, Bashu aims to open the overall situation. Have beautiful, but the potential of the river Pentium.

At the joint point of the Belt and Road and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Chongqing will build an international logistics channel with extensive access, gather global elements and resources, and lead the global "destiny bond"... From the hinterland to the frontier of opening up, new ideas are forming, new resources are gathering, and new hubs are pulling. Chongqing, a mountain city, is playing a symphony of high-level opening to the outside world.

Here, the Belt and Road joins hands with the Yangtze River

In the national grand strategy, Chongqing is both the starting point of the Silk Road and the meeting point of the northwest and southwest. In the geographical distribution line of population drawn by Hu Huanyong, a famous Chinese geographical strategist, Chongqing is the center of the west, the tail of the middle and the head of the west.

On the morning of September 5, Yuzui, Liangjiang New Area, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, five 5,000-ton freighters docked end to end at a container terminal to load and unload goods. On the dock platform yard, colorful container scale is comb ratio; More than 10 orange yard Bridges "walk" steadily, "walk" between the yard, and accurately grab containers to the designated place. This is Chongqing Guoyuan Port, with an annual throughput of more than 20 million tons.

Giant arms waving, cargo ships crossing, railroad tracks crossing, traffic flowing like a tide. It will connect with the Belt and Road Yangtze River Economic Belt and become a "transit station" for western China to connect with the world.

European cars and milk powder arrive at Guoyuan Port by China-Europe freight train and are then distributed to all parts of the country along the Yangtze River. Southeast Asian clothing, leather shoes, etc. are transported to Chongqing from the west land and sea new channel, and then transshipped to Shanghai via the Yangtze River, or by China-Europe freight train to Europe......

"When goods are in urgent need, go by rail or road; When you have time, go by water." Liu Jun, chairman of Guoyuan Port International Logistics Hub Construction and Development Co., LTD., said that different logistics channels in Guoyuan Port to achieve "free combination."

Chongqing, now a sprawling city, was a different story 10 years ago. At that time, Chongqing, deep in the hinterland, had to export its products "in the west" and "across the sea" through the coastal areas to the east; Or by air, so "tofu and so on into tofu milk" or "tofu shipped out of the price of meat", investors recoil.

As Chongqing projects its thinking and vision to the west, China's first China-Europe freight train line "Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe" came into being, reducing the time and space distance between Chongqing and Europe from more than 40 days to about 15 days.

In 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative spread around the world. Chongqing took the initiative to integrate into the construction of the Belt and Road, and the pace of opening up continued to accelerate. Now in the world map, a number of international logistics channels meet in Chongqing:

To the east, the golden waterway of the Yangtze River is constantly being optimized. Chongqing has also opened the Chongqing-Ningbo freight train, with goods directly arriving at Ningbo Zhoushan Port, and then reaching the world. To the west, the total number of China-Europe express trains (Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe) has exceeded 8,000, and more than 30 lines have been opened, covering more than 40 cities in 26 countries in Asia and Europe. To the south, Chongqing takes the lead in the construction of the new land-sea corridor in the west, and to the south, through the Beibu Gulf of Guangxi and other ports, it has access to all parts of the world, with destinations covering 304 ports in 106 countries and regions. To the north, "Chongqing, Manchu and Russia" freight train northward through Siberia, direct to Moscow, has now realized normal operation, the frequency of operation is constantly encrypted.

Nowadays, Guoyuan Port is thriving, becoming a big platform to accelerate the opening of Chongqing, a mega-city, a main gateway to accelerate the development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, and a new window to change the logistics pattern in the vast western region.

From south to north, west to east, in all directions. The distance between Chongqing and the world is narrowing rapidly, from the "tip" of opening-up to the forefront of opening-up.

To here, global factor resources accelerate convergence

Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, Sany Group's first plant in southwest China. Robots shuttling back and forth, a construction machinery production completed.

Why Chongqing? . "Chongqing is not only a key area of the Belt and Road, but also a central city of the Yangtze River Economic Belt." Sany Southwest company general manager Li Bing bluntly.

In Sany's plan, Chongqing will not only expand the Central Asian and European markets to the west, but also develop the Southeast Asian and South Asian markets to the south, and take advantage of the Yangtze River to accommodate the domestic market. Open Chongqing, like a huge magnet, attracts global factors and resources to converge here, and the automobile, electronics, emerging trade and other industries have emerged.

The international logistics channel in all directions has attracted hundreds of global electronic information upstream and downstream enterprises to settle in succession, boosting the rise of Chongqing to become one of the world's important electronic information industry bases.

As the only municipality directly under the central government and one of the national central cities in central and western China, Chongqing will undoubtedly become the highland of China's inland areas in opening up to the outside world and play a leading role in promoting the Belt and Road cooperation.

From the perspective of water transportation, Chongqing has its unique advantages in waterway, port and ship. By land, Chongqing is one of the largest expressway and railway network hubs in China, running from east to west, connecting north to south and extending in all directions. From the perspective of air traffic, Chongqing is one of the major aviation hubs in western China, with cargo and passenger throughput ranking among the top in China.

The latest statistics show that in the first eight months of 2022, the total value of Chongqing's foreign trade imports and exports reached 560.43 billion yuan, up 10.4 percent year on year. Among them, imports and exports to RCEP member countries and countries along the Belt and Road routes reached 174.75 billion yuan and 149.89 billion yuan respectively, up 14.7 percent and 9.1 percent year-on-year. The expansion of new markets has begun to bear fruit.

From the three inch, to the depth of the. As the national old industrial base and an important modern manufacturing base, Chongqing has 39 out of 41 industrial categories in China. It is the world's largest notebook computer production base and the world's second largest mobile phone production base. It also has the world's largest electronic information industry cluster and the largest domestic automobile industry cluster. Also formed equipment manufacturing, integrated chemical industry, materials, energy and consumer goods manufacturing and other hundred-billion-level industrial clusters. Chongqing is also an important base of modern service industry in China. It is one of the five headquarters of the top public identification resolution node of China's industrial Internet and one of the major industrial Internet industry highlands in China. At the same time, Chongqing is also the national key inland international financial center and the Central and Western international exchange center, all of which provide a solid foundation for Chongqing to play a leading role in promoting the Belt and Road cooperation.

In the future, after the completion of cluster industrial transfer, a new economic growth level will be formed in the vast central region. Chongqing, as the tail of the central region and the head of the western region, is not only the manufacturing center and comprehensive economic center in the southwest, but also the front of the central region radiating to the west. The new Chongqing model, with one end inside and one end outside, is based on Chongqing's ability to radiate from the middle and the west.

From here, the fate of the global bond

In late June, a China-Europe freight train loaded with Audi cars arrived at Xiyong Comprehensive Free Trade Zone in Chongqing.

This is the first Audi import bonded vehicle train to run on the China-Europe freight train. Imported vehicles used to go by sea, why do you choose land this time?

"Because of opportunity." According to an official of Audi China, it usually takes more than two months to reach western China by sea, and the potential of the western market is far from being released. The China-Europe freight train will help European auto brands to explore new markets.

As early as 2014, Chongqing issued the Implementation Opinions on Implementing the National Belt and Road Initiative and Building the Yangtze River Economic Belt, clearly positioning itself as an important strategic fulcrum of the Silk Road Economic Belt, the western central hub of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the industrial hinterland of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. In terms OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW LAND-SEA CORRIDOR in the WEST, THE PROMULgation of THE Master Plan OF the NEW Land-SEA CORRIDOR in the WEST HAS BROUGHT a new opportunity for Chongqing to rearrange and integrate the original INTERNATIONAL logistics corridor. Chongqing will make every effort to promote the construction of logistics hubs, platforms and industrial cooperation along the routes, and accelerate the formation of an international logistics channel system featuring "four-way" connectivity and "four-type" combined transportation.

Chongqing has actively engaged in mutual direct investment and international production capacity cooperation with countries along the Belt and Road. In terms of "bringing in", the Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone, based on institutional innovation, promoted the reform of the investment system, and worked hard to improve the level of investment liberalization and facilitation in the pilot Free Trade Zone. At present, there are more than 6,700 foreign-invested market entities in Chongqing, and 296 Fortune Global 500 enterprises have settled in Chongqing. Chongqing Liangjiang New Area has established international cooperation industrial parks with Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, South Korea and other countries to build a multi-functional open functional platform, and the agglomeration effect of the open platform is increasingly emerging.

Opening-up is not only Chongqing's choice, but also a new opportunity for the world. At the Chongqing Belt and Road Commodity Exhibition and Exchange Center, tens of thousands of commodities from more than 40 countries, such as Russian honey, Malaysian bird's nest and Kenyan handicrafts, are gathered here. "Before, logistics was not smooth and many goods could not get in." Liu Xiaomin, director of the Russian Pavilion, said that for time-sensitive goods such as sea cucumber and honey, China-Europe freight trains are now available. For goods with low timeliness requirements, Jiang-sea combined transport with lower cost can be selected.

As the COVID-19 epidemic has swept the world, Chongqing has leveraged its strengths to create a "bond of destiny". Shipping and air transport have been blocked. The China-Europe freight train (Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe) and the new land-Sea corridor in western China have maintained normal operation during the epidemic, sending epidemic prevention supplies to the rest of the world.

During the pandemic, global supply chains are at risk of disruption. There was a huge backlog of international mail destined for Europe across the country. Chongqing, in cooperation with China Post and the General Administration of Customs, took the lead in opening a new channel for the transportation of overstocked international mail. On April 3, 2020, China's first special international package train departed from Chongqing and continued to operate during the pandemic.

"The China-Europe freight train helped us overcome the risk of default. In 2020, the company shipped 1,000 containers through the China-Europe freight train, up 200% year-on-year." Lu Hong, brand director of the southwest region of Asustek Computer, said that due to the global demand for home work and online learning, the shipments of Asustek computer exploded during the epidemic, but the air and sea transportation were blocked, and the China-Europe freight train solved the urgent problem.

The China-Europe freight train and the new land-sea corridor have all demonstrated their role in fighting the pandemic and promoting economic cooperation. They are vivid examples of the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind.

Look here, Sichuan and Chongqing join hands to strengthen the chain

Yibin Sanjiang New Area, Sichuan Times New Energy Technology Co., LTD. -- a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ningde Times, the world's leading power battery enterprise.

Robots shuttle back and forth, and workers scramble. After the production and packaging of a new energy vehicle power battery, it can appear on the production line of many Oems in Chongqing and Chengdu within 3 hours.

"Our partners include Changan and CRRC Hengtong in Chongqing, as well as Volvo and Sichuan Bus in Chengdu. Yibin, located in the middle of Chengdu-Chongqing, can better balance the two markets." Yang Weiping, special assistant to the general manager of the company, said.

This is one of the key projects of Sichuan-Chongqing industry coordinated development. Previously, there was insufficient industrial convergence in Sichuan and Chongqing, and there were some problems, such as homogeneous competition in industries, weak innovation ability of enterprises, and low proportion of high-tech industries.

In the past two years, Sichuan and Chongqing have worked together to build a modern industrial system with efficient division of labor and mutual integration.

On December 14, 2021, Sichuan-Chongqing approved the Implementation Plan of Jointly Building World-Class equipment Manufacturing Industrial Cluster in Chengdu-Chongqing Twin City Economic Circle. It is planned that by 2025, the main business income of Sichuan-Chongqing equipment manufacturing industry will exceed 1 trillion yuan, and the world-class equipment manufacturing industrial cluster has initially formed. This means that Sichuan and Chongqing will join hands to build the equipment manufacturing industry into a world-class, trillion yuan industrial cluster. This is the third world-class trillion industrial cluster jointly created by Sichuan and Chongqing after the automobile and electronic information industry clusters.

Not only the enterprises of Sichuan and Chongqing carry out cooperation in the field of equipment manufacturing, but also the government departments of both sides have made moves. Since the construction of Chengdu-Chongqing Twin City Economic circle started, Yubei Airport Park has connected with Deyang Economic Development Zone for 6 times. Kuang Bin, general manager of the Airport Park Development, Investment and Operation Company, said that the two sides just finalized a cooperation project not long ago, which will rely on an enterprise in the Airport Park to establish a 3D printing public service platform to serve the heavy equipment enterprises in Deyang, such as Dongfang Electric and National Machinery.

"The joint construction of equipment manufacturing industrial cluster in Sichuan and Chongqing focuses on the integration of industrial chain and the formation of mutual support between the two places is the key." The person in charge of the Equipment Industry Department of Chongqing Economic Information Commission said that Sichuan and Chongqing have formed an industrial system that is good at each other in the subdivision field of equipment manufacturing. The equipment manufacturing industry of the two places has a high degree of correlation and strong complementarity, and has the basic conditions to achieve high-quality integrated development.

In the complex and grim international situation, the Chengdu-Chongqing region has become a window for China to open to the west and south. The success of Chengdu-Chongqing "tale of two cities" will give China a strong impetus to form a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international cycles mutually reinforcing each other.

Today, Chongqing is fully integrated into the Belt and Road Initiative, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the development of the western region. The western region is becoming a "new source of power" for China's high-quality economic development. In the context of accelerating the construction of a new development pattern of "double circulation", the western region, China's domestic demand market with the greatest potential, will be an important basis point for unimpeded domestic circulation, and also a strategic hub for connecting domestic and international double circulation, which is a new opportunity for China and the world. Editor/Xu Shengpeng