"Not long ago, a special train full of tyres started from Xi'an International Port Station and sailed to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. This is the first time that tyres produced by Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group Rubber Company (hereinafter referred to as "Yanchang Rubber Company") have entered Central Asia through a special train." On 11th July, Wang Guoqiang, marketing director of Yanchang Rubber Company, said.
In the first half of this year, the company actively explore the market in Central Asia, selling 89,100 tyres, in the Uzbek market, sales quadrupled year-on-year.
In recent years, Shaanxi enterprises seize the opportunity to build a "Belt and Road", in energy, agriculture, construction and other aspects of cooperation with Central Asian countries, not only for their own development to shape a new momentum and new advantages, but also to carry out international cooperation to inject new momentum.
In June, Changlong Airlines flight GJ8937 flew from Xi'an Xianyang International Airport to Samarkand International Airport in Uzbekistan. This route is the second Uzbekistan passenger route opened by Xi'an Xianyang International Airport after the opening of the Xi'an-Uzbekistan Tashkent route.
"Xi'an has successively opened cargo routes to Almaty and Tashkent, Kazakhstan, with a total of more than 300 flights, building a stable China-Central Asia air logistics dual channel in Central Asia." Shen Yongqiang, general manager of the transport services department of Western Airports Group, said.
Xi'an International Port Station, a few kilometres from the confluence of the Wei and Ba Rivers, is a busy scene.
China-European trains loaded with goods such as daily necessities, photovoltaic equipment and new energy vehicles are sailing out with their whistles, heading west. Xi'an International Port Station is the largest railway logistics centre in Northwest China, and is also the distribution centre for China-EU trains inland.
At 18:35 on July 1, the X9043 China-European Union train loaded with daily necessities, automobiles and accessories departed from Xi'an International Port Station, left the country from Khorgos Railway Port, crossed the Caspian Sea via Kazakhstan, and arrived at Baku in Azerbaijan. Since then, the train has been running on a regular basis once a day.
"Car transport from Xi'an to Central Asia is also very convenient." Qian Xinli, a staff member of the platform operation department of Chang'an (Xi'an) International Trade Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as "Chang'an International Company"), which belongs to Shaanxi Logistics Group, said, "We have just transported a batch of goods by car. It takes 7 days for the goods to be transported by car from Xi'an to Xinjiang and 7 days from Xinjiang to Tashkent."
There are transported out, but also transported in. In the middle of summer, in the imported goods area of Xi'an's major supermarkets, Kazakhstan's ice cream is on the shelves. "This ice cream uses high-quality milk from Kazakhstan." Supermarket staff introduced.