STORY: China's rail-sea intermodal trains make 4,500 trips on trade corridor
DATELINE: July 3, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:34
LOCATION: NANNING, China
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the cargo train
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHAO JIAN, Deputy director of Qinzhou Port's east railway station

STORYLINE:

China's rail-sea intermodal trains have made 4,500 trips along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the first six months of this year, completing the mid-year target.

A cargo train carrying 100 grain-loaded containers departed from the Qinzhou port station in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Friday, marking the 4,500th trip.

From January to June this year, the freight trains launched through the corridor carried 225,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers, an increase of 9 percent from the same period last year.

SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHAO JIAN, Deputy director of Qinzhou Port's east railway station
"Now the average inspection time for a cargo train with grain-loaded containers has been reduced from 90-120 minutes to 40-60 minutes. That means each train's inspection time is less than one hour. The transportation efficiency has been greatly improved. Cambodian rice, Thai coconut and mangosteen, Vietnamese passion fruit and durian have been served to more and more Chinese consumers while the new energy vehicles made in Chongqing, red wine from Ningxia, river snails rice noodles from Guangxi have also been brought to other countries via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor."

Launched in 2017, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor is a trade and logistics passage jointly built by provincial-level regions in western China and ASEAN members. The rail-sea intermodal service has expanded to cover 61 cities in 17 provincial-level areas in China.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Nanning, China.
(XHTV)