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Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report: Recently, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Urumqi road-rail combined international freight train departed from the Urumqi International Dry Port Area, arrived at Kashgar Railway Station by rail, and then transported by road from Irkeshtan Port. Exit the country and finally arrive in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

"This line has been tested for many times and the process has been optimized, and now it has the conditions for normal operation." said Li Tiehui, manager of Jetstar Logistics Co., Ltd., who is responsible for carrying goods. The line combines the dual advantages of railway and road transportation, plus Wuchang Customs supports the declaration mode of "Secondary Customs Transit for Exports", which has obvious advantages in transportation timeliness and freight rates, and the whole process saves 3 to 5 days compared with the traditional international railway combined transportation mode.

According to the observation of import and export data, in the first half of the year, Xinjiang's foreign trade import and export value was 91.51 billion yuan, an increase of 39.1% compared with the same period of the previous year, 29.7 percentage points higher than the national growth rate. The import and export data also showed that the foreign trade export volume was 74.74 billion yuan, an increase of 49.3%, and the import trade volume was 16.77 billion yuan, an increase of 6.7%. Import and export commodities are mainly concentrated in labor-intensive products, mechanical and electrical products, energy and mineral products, and agricultural products.

"The opening of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Ukraine highway-railway intermodal international freight train will help Xinjiang's foreign trade run out of 'acceleration'." Li Peng, deputy chief of the first section of Wuchang Customs Supervision, said that the opening of the line can effectively ease the pressure on the China-Europe train in the Xinjiang section and realize the China-Europe train. Columns open source and divert traffic, opening up new channels for multimodal transport. At the same time, it has enriched the cross-border transportation methods and channels in the Urumqi International Dry Port Area, and improved the capacity of intra-regional cargo formation and the radiation effect of the cargo source distribution center in the dry port area.

During the construction of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, Xinjiang has taken many measures to smooth and facilitate foreign trade routes, and foreign trade is running out of an "upward curve". Wu Wei, member of the Urumqi Customs Party Committee and Deputy Director of Customs, said that since the beginning of this year, thanks to the implementation of various measures to promote foreign trade stability and quality improvement introduced by Xinjiang, Urumqi Customs has studied and formulated in a timely manner, including the realization of "one declaration, one inspection, one time for export goods". Release”, promote the normalized delivery of “road-rail combined transportation” between China, Kyrgyzstan and Uruguay, and speed up 16 measures such as customs clearance of goods urgently needed by enterprises. Xinjiang’s exports have maintained a year-on-year growth of more than 20% for 6 consecutive months.

According to the import and export data observation report, on the basis of stabilizing the fundamentals of foreign trade, Xinjiang has continuously enriched the carriers of opening to the outside world and improved the level of opening to the outside world. At present, the four comprehensive bonded zones in Xinjiang have formed a geese formation led by the Urumqi cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone, and the cross-border e-commerce development at various ports is dislocated.

     Import and export data also show that in the first half of the year, the import and export of the comprehensive bonded zone exceeded 21.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of more than 253%. Among them, the data of Kashgar Comprehensive Bonded Zone is eye-catching. In the first six months, the import and export trade value was 6.014 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 710.9%. Wu Wei said that Urumqi Customs has also introduced 10 measures to help rural revitalization, including supporting the expansion of export bases and increasing the efficiency of agricultural and food products, to ensure efficient and convenient customs clearance for enterprises' import and export.