China-Europe freight trains ship Guizhou's products to world

Guiyang South Railway Station is one of the main freight train transportation centers in Guizhou. [Photo/colorful Guizhou network]

In recent years, Southwest China's Guizhou province has been participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor – providing a massive boost to the region's economy and that dynamic is reportedly continuing to gain momentum.

With the Dulaying international land-sea logistics port in Guiyang, the modern logistics new city in Zunyi and the Gaimao railway logistics base in Guiyang, Guizhou's products are now being transported across the world.

Since Guizhou's first direct China-Europe freight train started operations in November, more and more Guizhou companies are understood to be choosing freight trains to export their wares to Europe.

Guizhou Super Biotechnology Co, located in the Qianxinan Bouyei and Miao autonomous prefecture, operates a lucrative business exporting tea to Russia. With advent of the direct freight train, the transportation time was cut from one month to 15 days and significant loading and unloading costs were saved, helping the company to expand its overseas business.

Guizhou's tea, guitar and tire products are said to be particularly favored by countries involved in the BRI. Moving forwards, plans are for Guizhou to operate more direct freight trains to Poland and Germany.

Guiyang's Gaimao railway station mainly transports industrial materials, such as cement clinkers and aluminum oxide. In 2019, the station started using containers to transport cement, saving loading and unloading time and avoiding losses caused by weather.