Auto & Transportation

On July 15, the China Railway Express added a new member. With the sound of the whistle, the "Cangshi-Europe" China-Europe freight train carrying 100 standard containers departed from Shijiazhuang International Dry Port and headed for Budapest, the capital of Hungary. This is the first direct China-Europe freight train from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to Hungary. .

Relying on the advantages of safety and efficiency, the China-Europe Railway Express has become one of the few international transportation channels that stably connects Eurasia under the influence of the epidemic, and plays the role of a transportation link between China and Europe and the countries and regions jointly building the "Belt and Road". The data shows that from January to May this year, China-Europe trains operated a total of 6,153 trains and transported 590,000 TEUs of goods, an increase of 2.7% and 3% year-on-year respectively. The comprehensive heavy container rate reached 97.7%, showing a good development trend of steady progress. .

"In recent years, the number of commodities and goods carried by China-Europe freight trains has continued to increase, and we have also ushered in new development opportunities." Laszlo Gubic, general manager of Hungary's Zahoni Port Company, said that with the radiation of China-Europe freight trains The scope is expanding and the industry-leading effect continues to increase, and more and more countries and enterprises along the route have benefited from it.

On July 13th, at the Central and Eastern European Agricultural Products Supply and Purchase Matchmaking Conference held in Budapest, Ningbo Federation Changyun International Trade Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Federal Changyun") signed a large purchase order with Hungary's largest beef cattle processing plant "351" - $200 million worth of beef to be imported over the next five years. Sun Chonglong, the head of Federal Fortune, told reporters that agricultural products from Hungary and other Central and Eastern European countries have responded very well in the Chinese market. Many local companies have begun to produce according to the habits of Chinese consumers, providing Chinese consumers with more choices.

Statistics show that the number of Chinese enterprises investing in Hungary in the past two years has continued to increase, and the trade volume between China and Hungary has reached a record high. In 2021, the bilateral trade volume between China and Hungary will increase by 34.5% year-on-year. Chinese-funded enterprises have maintained a high level of investment in Hungary, and a number of green and new energy projects have been launched in Hungary. With the steady growth of bilateral economic, trade and investment cooperation between China and Hungary, Hungary has become one of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe with the largest number of licenses for exporting agricultural products to China. Hungarian meat, alcoholic products and organic agricultural products have gradually entered the dining table of Chinese people, and have also opened up new markets for many Hungarian small and medium-sized enterprises. The Hungary-China-Europe Business and Logistics Cooperation Park in Budapest is the first business and logistics-based overseas economic and trade cooperation zone built by China in Europe, which has played an important role in deepening China-Hungary economic and trade cooperation.

"Faced with the challenges brought by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, cooperation with China has brought confidence to more and more Hungarian small and medium-sized enterprises. We are willing to explore the Chinese market more actively and embrace new business opportunities." Hungarian-Hungarian-China Economic Chamber of Commerce Chairman Ernst Ernst Nope Pate said.