Sun Daguang, Acting Mayor of Nanning City, Guangxi, stated on April 11 that in 2021, Nanning City will deepen the opening up and cooperation with ASEAN as the focus, strengthen the construction of large-capacity transportation channels, and accelerate the construction of Nanning land port type national logistics hub, relying on Sino-Singapore Nanning International The logistics park and Nanning International Railway Port will build a multimodal transport system to achieve more than 200 container trains from Nanning to Vietnam.

Nanning is the capital city closest to ASEAN in China

In recent years, Nanning has accelerated the construction of a major international logistics channel for ASEAN, and the scale of cross-border transportation has been further expanded. The railway and air cargo transportation serving ASEAN countries has increased significantly, and it has developed into a "transit station" for ASEAN import and export products.

According to Sun Daguang, in 2020, Nanning will implement 49 major transportation infrastructure projects, and the Nanchong and Nanyu intercity railway projects will be accelerated; construction of five expressways from Nanning to Zhanjiang and Nanning to Pingguo will be started, and highways are under construction. The scale of the highway hit a record high. The first phase of Nanning International Railway Port and Yuantong Express Guangxi Logistics Headquarters were completed and put into operation, and the construction of Sino-Singapore Nanning International Logistics Park and Nanning Niuwan Logistics Park was accelerated. There were 166 cross-border container trains between China and Vietnam, an increase of 49.5%.

In terms of aviation, Nanning Airport is accelerating its formation as a radiating center for ASEAN. In July 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission of China and the Civil Aviation Administration of China jointly replied to support the construction of the Nanning Airport Economic Demonstration Zone, which has a planned area of 118 square kilometers and will focus on building a regional aviation hub for Southeast Asia.

At present, there are a total of 53 projects in the three-year battle of Nanning's "logistics network" infrastructure construction, with a total investment of over 50 billion yuan. In 2021, Nanning City proposed to add more than 140 kilometers of expressways and strive to start construction of 4 expressways. In addition, speed up the construction of Nanning North Station, strive to start the reconstruction and expansion project of Nanning Station and Nanning Hub Wuxiang Station, start the reconstruction and expansion of the airport, and strive to increase and open international all-cargo aircraft international routes to ASEAN and the Belt and Road countries. Editor/Xu Shengpeng