Recently, a land-sea express train loaded with auto parts, textiles, small commodities and other goods departed from the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Zone. After arriving at Huangdao Port, it will be quickly hoisted and boarded. Shipped to Japan and South Korea. Li Xiaopeng, Marketing Manager of China Railway Union Group Qingdao Central Station, said: “Some goods from Laixi, Yantai and other places were transported here through Shenhai Expressway, and then arrived at Huangdao Port to go to sea. It was the expressway that opened up the Shanghai He Demonstration Zone. The "last mile" of the international cycle."

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At present, the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone has opened 20 domestic and international trains on a regular basis, including the Japan-Korea Land-Sea Express, and 6 international trains including Central Asia and China Europe (Russia). In June 2018, at the 18th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Qingdao, China proposed to support the construction of a China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization local economic and trade cooperation demonstration zone in Qingdao, aiming to create a new platform for international cooperation in the Belt and Road Initiative. , To strengthen the interconnection between China and the SCO countries, and strive to promote an open pattern of mutual assistance between the east and the west, and linkages between the land and the sea.

It is the many expressways represented by Shenhai Expressway that help customers with "door-to-door" freight services, making the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone an important link between the SCO countries and Japan, South Korea and other countries and regions. "When the goods arrive here, it is equivalent to arriving at the Qingdao Port terminal." Li Xiaopeng said, some cargo owners transported the goods to the Shanghai Demonstration Zone via Shenhai Expressway, and then directly connected to Qingdao Port via the Jiaohuang Railway Circular Train; from Shanghai Goods from the relevant countries of the Cooperation Organization arrive at the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone via Central Asia and China-Europe Express, which is equivalent to arriving at Qingdao Port, where the goods can be transferred by sea to Japan, South Korea and other countries and regions. Products exported from Japan, South Korea and other countries and regions to the SCO countries can also reach their destinations via sea-rail combined transport.

It is understood that currently 70% of the goods in the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone are imported and exported by means of "land-sea-rail" combined transport. Taking advantage of the convenience of Shenhai Expressway, Shandong Gaomi's textiles reached Japan and South Korea through the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone and became local hot-selling products, and their export volume increased significantly. In 2020, the Qingdao Multimodal Transport Center in Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone opened 401 Euro-Asia trains, a year-on-year increase of 15.9%; the completed container operation volume was 765,000 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 14%. Feng Ziming, Director of the International Logistics Department of the Management Committee of the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone, said: "At present, the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone has initially established an international network of'East with Japan, South Korea, Asia-Pacific, Western Union, Central Asia and Europe, Nantong, ASEAN, South Asia, and North China, Mongolia and Russia. Great logistics channel."

Liang Chao, director of the Modern Trade Department of the Management Committee of the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone, introduced that the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone is constantly expanding and cultivating new types of trade formats, adding SCO elements to international multilateral trade. In addition to introducing a large trading platform, it also negotiates and cooperates with well-known domestic e-commerce companies to promote the development of cross-border e-commerce trade.

Taking advantage of the "last mile" of Shenhai Expressway, in 2020, the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone will achieve 1.29 billion yuan in foreign trade imports and exports to the SCO countries, an increase of 51.3% year-on-year, and become an important open platform for the "international cycle" of internal and external communication. . Editor/Tian Zengpeng