Q "** Spokesperson's Office" news, at the regular press conference on December 1, the reporter of "People**" asked: November 28 is the 10th anniversary of the opening of the China-Europe Express (Xi'an), with a total of more than 20,000 trains, accounting for a quarter of the total number of China-Europe trains in the country. How did the spokesperson evaluate the role played by the China-Europe Railway Express in promoting the economic development of countries along the route?
A Wang Wenbin: Over the past ten years, the China-Europe Railway Express has connected the dots and woven the threads into a network, which has effectively guaranteed the stability of the international industrial chain and injected new impetus into the development of the world economy, and has become a flagship project and iconic brand of the Belt and Road Initiative.
The China-Europe Railway Express has built a new land transportation channel and promoted win-win cooperation in the Eurasian continent. The China-Europe Express passes through more than 100 cities in 11 Asian countries and regions, and reaches more than 200 cities in 25 European countries. Thanks to the China-Europe train, the transportation time of goods between China and Europe is shortened by more than 20 days compared with sea transportation, so that high-quality products from China and Europe can appear on each other's shelves faster. In the past ten years, the demand for cross-border transportation of China-Europe freight trains has been strong, and the cumulative number of trains has reached 810,000 trains, more than 700 million kilometers of travel, more than 7.6 million TEUs of goods transported, with a value of more than 340 billion US dollars, effectively promoted international economic and trade cooperation, driven the economic development and improvement of people's livelihood in countries and regions along the route, and made important contributions to the smooth international industrial chain.
The China-Europe Railway Express is a vivid practice of the steady and far-reaching cooperation of the Belt and Road Initiative. With the continuous expansion of the source of goods and the increase of high-tech products, the China-Europe Railway Express is transforming from a simple "channel economy" to a "value-added economy", and on the track of high-quality development, it will drive the common benefits of countries and regions along the way.
The China-Europe Railway Express originated in China, connecting Asia and Europe and benefiting the world. At the opening ceremony of the 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, the Chairman announced that he would accelerate the high-quality development of the China-Europe Railway Express. China will continue to work with its Asia-Europe partners to usher in the next decade of the China-Europe Railway Express full of opportunities and "two-way travel", and sail towards a bright future of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.