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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Taiyuan, September 29 (Xinhua) — The first freight train carrying intermodal rail-road transport along the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan transport corridor departed from Shanxi Province in northern China on Monday. This marked the launch of a new international logistics route linking the province with Central Asia, according to the Taiyuan branch of China Railway.
The launch of the route marks Shanxi's economic transformation from a traditional coal-based region to a base for developing advanced manufacturing sectors such as solar panels.
The first train carrying solar panels departed from the Zhongding logistics center in central Shanxi and will travel to Kashgar North Station in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The containers will then be transported out of the country by road through the Irkeshtam checkpoint—China's westernmost land port and a key entry point into Kyrgyzstan—and, after traveling through Kyrgyzstan, will arrive in Andijan, Uzbekistan.
According to Gao Jianwen, Director of Operations at Shanxi Zhongding Logistics Group Co., Ltd., the journey is estimated to take nine days, six days less than the previous route. The previous 4,935-kilometer route, linking China with Uzbekistan, passed through the land port of Khorgos, Almaty in Kazakhstan, and Tashkent in Uzbekistan.
Gao Jianwen noted that the new route reduces overall logistics costs by nearly 1,000 yuan (about 140.7 US dollars) per container.
The successive launches of multimodal freight trains on the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan route in recent years demonstrate the strengthening of infrastructure links between China and Central Asia, as well as the growth of trade and the rapid expansion of regional cooperation under the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
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