At 11:38 on March 25th, with Meng Xiangwei, Secretary of Xianning municipal Party committee, giving the order of "China Europe Express Yangtze River", the whistle sounded, and a China Europe Express "Yangtze River" loaded with 41 vehicles slowly drove out of the freight yard of Xianning station and ran to the Russian capital Moscow thousands of miles away. This is the first China Europe train from Xianning, opening up a new international trade channel from Xianning to Europe.

Yang Liangfeng, member of the Standing Committee and executive vice mayor of Xianning municipal Party committee, Le Jianshun, member of the Standing Committee and Secretary General of Xianning municipal Party committee, Li Li, vice mayor and Wang Gang, deputy mayor, Xia Fuqing, Secretary of the Party Working Committee and director of the Management Committee of Xianning high tech Zone, Tu Fengfeng, chairman and general manager of Hubei port group, song Limin, chairman of Yibo holding group, attended the launching ceremony.

The China Europe train "Yangtze River" is organized and operated by Xianning international dry port. The main goods are auto parts, medical supplies, household appliances and daily necessities produced in Xianning and its surrounding areas. The goods weigh about 770 tons and are worth more than 14 million yuan. It leaves the country through Manzhouli Port, with a journey of more than 9700 kilometers. It is expected to arrive at volcino station in Moscow in 14 days.

Integrating the world "time waits for no man". Xianning international dry port, which started construction on January 9 this year, is invested and constructed by Yibo holding group. It is a key project for Xianning to build a comprehensive gateway port of the Yangtze River and build international multimodal transport of public, rail and water. After the project was launched, Yibo holding group innovated and implemented the strategy of "simultaneous promotion of China Europe train operation and infrastructure construction", opened up the major international railway transportation channel in advance, achieved the first breakthrough and early results of China Europe train, and helped Xianning accelerate its integration into the construction of the "the Belt and Road".

"The opening of the Xianning China Europe train has provided a new logistics channel for the integration of the Yangtze River economic belt and Wuhan metropolitan agglomeration into the 'the Belt and Road'." Guang Yongliang, deputy general manager of Xianning international dry port, said that as a regional transportation hub city in Central China, Xianning has always had an open gene and a tradition of valuing business. The "golden channel" of international logistics built by China Europe trains has driven "made in Hubei" into countries along the "the Belt and Road" through the deep integration of logistics and manufacturing industries, so as to accelerate foreign economic and trade exchanges and promote the release of advantageous production capacity with fast and efficient international railway transportation, Promote high-quality development of the open economy.

China Europe Express has the unique advantages of large traffic volume, low freight rate and short time. It can meet the needs of customers in terms of cost control, transportation security and supply chain guarantee. Guang Yongliang, for example, compared with the shipping cycle of about 50 days, the China Europe train from Xianning to Moscow takes only about 14 days; Compared with air transportation, the China Europe train not only has a large traffic volume, but also the freight rate is only about 30% of that of air transportation, which can effectively help foreign trade enterprises "reduce costs and increase efficiency" and better expand the international market.

"Xianning international train will open more and more." Song Limin, chairman of the board of supervisors of Yibo holding group, said that the China Europe train was "made in Hubei", and the introduction of industrial development would help Xianning form a global oriented industrial system of trade, investment, production and processing. Xianning international dry port would follow the development path of "building a hub, smooth channels, strengthening ports, promoting trade and gathering industries", while accelerating the construction of dry port infrastructure, Strengthen the organization of China Europe trains, continuously improve the operation quality of trains, gradually increase the operation frequency, expand more international routes, accelerate the industrial agglomeration of railway adjacent to the port, build Xianning international dry port into a new highland of industrial agglomeration in Hubei, comprehensively help Xianning build a new advantage of high-level opening-up and promote high-quality economic development.