IndustryHunan Huaihua deeply integrates into the Western Land Sea New Corridor
In the open port area, gantry cranes are constantly lowering and moving trucks shuttle back and forth, various containers are stacked layer by layer, and train sirens sound from time to time... In early autumn, the Huaihua International Land Port in Hunan is a busy scene, with luggage, hardware tools, agricultural machinery and other goods produced in the provinces of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi departing from here and heading west. Most of these goods are assembled through the Western Land Sea New Channel rail sea intermodal train, "said Yang Shijun, the general manager of Hunan Huaihua International Land Port Development Co., Ltd. From January to August this year, Huaihua International Land Port operated 646 trains, an increase of 137.24% over the previous year. Among them, 250 China Laos trains were operated, a year-on-year increase of 780.68%, ranking first in the central region.
Give full play to the hub advantages
As the only important node city of the Western Land Sea New Corridor in Hunan, Huaihua has opened up seven international logistics channels, including Beibu Gulf Port, Guangzhou Port, Shenzhen Port, Zhanjiang Port, China Laos, China Vietnam, and China Myanmar, by building channels and platforms in recent years. It has also opened 140 international and domestic transportation routes, connecting trade with 119 countries and regions including ASEAN, Europe, and America, attracting 70% of the goods from the Western Land Sea New Corridor to go south to ASEAN. From January to July this year, the total import and export volume of Huaihua increased by 55.3% year-on-year, ranking first in Hunan Province in terms of growth rate.
Huaihua is a city dragged by a train. In the 1970s, with the opening of the Hunan Guizhou and Zhiliu railways and their intersection in Huaihua, the influx of people and logistics brought about the development of Huaihua from a small town of over 3000 people into a commercial and trade city "dragged" by trains. Huaihua, which has tasted the sweetness of developing transportation, continues to accelerate the weaving of a three-dimensional transportation network and develop into an important railway hub city in China.
In 2019, the Overall Plan for the Western Land Sea New Corridor was released, positioning Huaihua as an important node city on the main channel of "Chongqing Huaihua Liuzhou Beibu Gulf", and the only one in Hunan Province. Relying on the Western Land Sea New Corridor and the newly built Huaihua West Marshalling Station, the largest marshalling yard in the southwest region, Huaihua International Land Port has emerged. On September 13, 2021, Huaihua International Land Port officially started construction. In May 2022, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the Hunan Provincial Government issued the Implementation Plan on Deeply Integrating into the "the Belt and Road" to Support the Construction of Huaihua International Dry Port, giving Huaihua a new position and mission of "building a strategic gateway city for a new land and sea channel in the west" and the only ASEAN freight gathering center in the province, and making it clear that Huaihua International Dry Port will become a landmark project for Hunan to build a highland for reform and opening up in the inland region.
In July 2022, the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee held the Third Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee and made a decision to accelerate the construction of Huaihua International Land Port with the city's efforts. With the completion of projects such as Huaihua Customs Supervision Site, Cross border Express Supervision Center, and Southern Container Consolidation Center, the functions of international freight document processing, customs inspection, cross-border e-commerce, warehousing and distribution are constantly improving. This mountain city, which is not along the border, not by the sea, and not by the river, has entered the "land port era".
Smooth internal and external circulation
To further build a high-level western land sea new channel and smooth the dual circulation, Huaihua City spares no effort in building a large platform and opening up the main channel; Carry out large-scale cooperation and deepen customs clearance; Gather large industries and optimize the overall environment. By 'bringing in and going out', we can promote the trade of goods to a higher level, and by 'buying globally and selling globally', we can increase the development of service trade and accelerate the construction of a diversified trade system, "said Li Chunqiu, Deputy Secretary of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee and Mayor.
In terms of improving the convenience of customs clearance cooperation, Huaihua has innovated customs clearance models such as "Combination Port", "One Port Connection", and "Four Customs as One Customs", with import and export clearance times for goods better than the national average; In terms of external cooperation, we actively integrate into the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, Central Urban Agglomeration, Chengdu Chongqing Economic Circle, and Hainan Pilot Free Trade Zone, establish a cooperation mechanism among the five provinces (regions, cities) of Hunan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Yunnan, promote the "Three Provinces Cooperation Agreement", effectively expand the economic and trade cooperation area of the jointly built land sea new channel, and deepen cooperation with coastal ports. Beibu Gulf Port, Guangzhou Port, Yantian Port, and Yangpu Port have successively landed in Huaihua to establish inland ports. At the same time, Huaihua International Land Port continues to maintain preferential policies such as halving the provincial high-speed toll for international standard container transport vehicles and lowering railway freight rates, reducing customs clearance costs... Huaihua has formed a new pattern of opening up to the outside world of "serving the whole country, connecting with ASEAN, and facilitating commerce".
With the rapid development of Huaihua International Land Port, batches of "Huaihua enterprises" have gone abroad, and cars of "Huaihua products" have drifted across the sea. Hunan Houde Logistics Co., Ltd. is an enterprise involved in the freight collection and transportation of trains on the Western Land Sea New Corridor. With the platform built by the Western Land Sea New Corridor, the company's business has developed rapidly. Last year, it established a supply chain company in Laos and actively participated in the collection and transportation of goods for the China Laos freight trains. Our goods were originally transported by Yangtze River water to Shanghai Port, and then transferred to Southeast Asia, South Asia and other places. Now, they are shipped to Beibu Gulf Port in Guangxi through Huaihua International Land Port, shortening the time by nearly a week, "said Mo Bin, the company's person in charge." The Western Land Sea New Corridor not only makes trade more smooth, but also has a positive impact on the company's overseas market layout. In the later stage, we plan to establish companies in countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia
The increase in international freight train capacity has driven the sustained growth of Huaihua's import and export trade scale. At present, Huaihua has established trade relations with 119 countries and regions including ASEAN, Europe and America. In the first half of this year, Huaihua's imports of antimony concentrate, cassava starch, and exports of agricultural products and bags maintained high-speed growth. Among them, the export of luggage increased by 140%, and the export of agricultural products such as vegetables and fruits increased by 54.4 times.
Relying on Huaihua International Land Port, Huaihua also brings imported goods from ASEAN and Europe and America to its doorstep. Entering the Land Port No.1 Warehousing Preferred Member Store, neatly arranged shelves are filled with high-quality and affordable goods. The store manager, Mo Yingxun, introduced that nearly 3000 cross-border products from more than ten countries are gathered here. Since its opening in January this year, the number of members has reached 16000, and the project operation has driven employment for 600 people, with an expected annual turnover of over 150 million yuan.
Cultivate port related industries
The reporter learned that in order to promote the high-quality development of e-commerce (cross-border), Huaihua has built a cross-border network channel, supporting platforms such as the ASEAN Cross border E-commerce Incubation Platform and Huaihua International Land Port Cross border Independent Station, established a cross-border e-commerce supervision center, and set up overseas warehouses in ASEAN countries such as Vietnam and Laos, basically forming a complete and functional cross-border e-commerce service system. On June 13th, Huaihua International Land Port (Cross border) E-commerce Industrial Park opened, with the first batch of 10 enterprises already settled in. From January to July this year, the total import and export volume of Huaihua was 7.59 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 55.3%, of which the cross-border e-commerce export volume was 193.3 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.6 times.
Not only that, Huaihua also focuses on the strategic pivot of international land ports, promotes the integrated development of port industry and city, and vigorously develops port related industries; We will establish a "1+N" port industry system with luggage and leather goods as the main focus, supported by green food, modern logistics, etc. We will focus on promoting the construction of luggage industry parks, green food industry parks, and China's supply and marketing agriculture, rural areas, and farmers industry parks. At present, 87 enterprises in the luggage and leather goods industry chain have signed contracts and settled down, with an investment of 7.3 billion yuan; 342500 tons of cold storage have been built, with 20 cold chain processing enterprises and 130 cold chain logistics enterprises. The annual output value of the cold chain industry is 17.5 billion yuan.
Building a highland of reform and opening up in inland areas is an inevitable requirement for Huaihua to achieve high-level and high-quality development of opening up, "said Xu Zhongjian, Secretary of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee. In the next step, Huaihua will continue to focus on building a landmark project of reform and opening up in inland areas, deeply integrating into the Western Land Sea New Corridor and the International Land Sea Corridor facing the Indian Ocean, and concentrating on building a first-class international land port with cold chain logistics as its characteristic, to help" Hunan products go global ".
