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Statistics from Lanzhou Customs show that in the first two months of this year, the total import and export value of Gansu Province increased by 57.8% year-on-year,In particular,
the import and export of countries and regions along the "Belt and Road" such as Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, the European Union, and ASEAN have doubled.
Facing the map of China, you will see that Gansu is not remote, and Lanzhou is located in the geometric center of China's land territory, and occupies the golden zone of the Silk Road Economic Belt, with significant geographical advantages.Choosing Lanzhou as a base to open up air cargo channels not only minimizes the radius of cargo collection from places such as Zhejiang and Guangdong, but also is close to the South Asian consumer market.
In recent years, Gansu has opened a road-rail combined freight train to South Asia, which is also considered to be the most distinctive international train in Gansu.
In 2016, the Lanzhou-Kathmandu road-rail combined transport train started smoothly. After assembly, home appliances, clothing and other products produced in Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places, as well as chemical products from Qinghai and Gansu, were first transported by rail to Tibet, and then transported by car. After exiting through ports such as Zhangmu and Keelung in Tibet, it was finally transported to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and became the first South Asian road-rail combined transport train in China.In 2018, Lanzhou opened a South Asian road-rail intermodal train to Islamabad, Pakistan, with a total length of 4,500 kilometers, which is nearly 15 days shorter than seaborne transportation. This is the second international freight channel opened by Gansu to South Asia.
Nowadays, Lanzhou has become one of the few cities in China that simultaneously opens South Asian international trains and South Asian all-cargo routes, and has erected an open bridgehead from Northwest China to South Asia. Gansu has formed four mature international trade corridors: Central Asia, Central Europe, South Asia, and the "New Land-Sea Corridor".
