Alashankou in Xinjiang used to be a lonely frontier post in the vast Gobi desert. The local people used to say that "the wind blows once a year, from spring to winter, the wind blows stones and runs away, and the birds cannot fly" to describe the difficult conditions.

As the Belt and Road Initiative continues to advance, local exchanges and exchanges with neighboring countries along the routes have become increasingly close, and transportation and trade have undergone profound changes. The former terminal of transportation and trade has become an important hub and platform in the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt.

In the 1990s, the state approved the formal establishment of the Alashankou port, and then the railway connection with Druzhba port in Kazakhstan was realized. From then on, the second Eurasian Land Bridge, with a total length of 10,870 kilometers, was completed from Lianyungang in the east to Rotterdam in the Netherlands in the west.

Roads lead to cities. Alashankou thus attracted people, logistics, capital, wide and straight asphalt roads, public facilities, with local accent of businessmen shuttling back and forth... The wind whistling across the mountains is no longer to be feared, but the wind of reform and development and the pursuit of happiness.

Today, Alashankou has developed into the first land port in northwest China that integrates railway, road, crude oil pipeline and air transportation. Driven by the Belt and Road Initiative, it is fully open to the whole Eurasian continent.

The China-Europe freight trains are favored by more and more enterprises at home and abroad due to their advantages such as large freight volume, many countries (regions) connected and strong stability. Alashankou port has become the hub of cross-border e-commerce parcel transportation.

On January 22, 2022, The State Council agreed to set up a cross-border e-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone in Alashankou, named China (Alashankou) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone.

On July 6, Liu Zizhong, party Secretary and chairman of Bozhou CPPCC, and other leaders visited Shenzhen Neptune Logistics Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as Neptune Logistics Group), and carried out in-depth exchanges on the theme of "New opportunities for the development of Alashankou Cross-border e-commerce".

Led by Zhong Yongjun, business development architect of Neptune Logistics Group, the visiting leaders visited Neptune Logistics culture exhibition hall and office area successively, and got to know the development history, main business and future development plan of the group. Afterwards, the two sides sat down in the multi-function hall for in-depth exchanges.

BoZhou committee of the party secretary, chairman liu self-respect, BoZhou party committee standing committee and executive vice governor joedy, BoZhou vice governor of the people's government should he du, BoZhou business bureau, party secretary and deputy director zhang min, BoZhou ministry bureau party deputy secretary and chief Chen Xinbo and ala shan kou city, deputy party secretary, director of the heddle area vice secretary of party working, Li Chenlin, Li Hexin, secretary of party Group and Director of Alashankou Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Industry; Huang Yongkun, Executive Director of South China Cross-border Guangdong E-commerce Research Institute; Cao Wei, Vice President of South China Cross-border Guangdong E-commerce Research Institute; Neptune Logistics Group chairman and General Manager Zhu Luzhi, Group business Development architect Zhong Yongjun, group Logistics Solution Center senior director Wang Zhengpan participated in the discussion and exchange.

At the beginning of the meeting, Zhu Luzhi, chairman and General manager of the group, warmly welcomed the delegation led by Liu Zizhong, secretary of the Party Group and chairman of Bozhou CPPCC, to visit Neptune Logistics Shenzhen headquarters for investigation, "Let the flowers bloom, and let the clouds disperse. A few years ago, when I first came to Alashankou, a beautiful border town, I was deeply impressed by its unique local customs and customs."

Since the launch of china-Europe express trains, a total of 81 china-Europe express routes have passed through Alashankou Station, covering 24 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China, with 16 trains per day and up to 28 trains per day, reaching 18 countries including Germany and Poland. As a national logistics hub city and an important gateway to the west of the land passage of the belt and Road, Alashankou has great development potential and broad prospects.

After further understanding, secretary liu self-respect in prospects of Neptune logistics and industry layout said the full affirmation, "Neptune logistics and ala shan kou city heald is protected area resonates in strategic planning, hope that the two sides to further strengthen communication, seek pragmatic cooperation and jointly promote the heald confirmed the ala shan kou city construction and development.

Then Chen Xinbo, director general of Alashankou, explained the policy support for attracting enterprises to invest in Guangdong. He noted that Alashan Pass has become an important node of regional opening-up and cooperation. China has a large market of 1.4 billion people at home and a large market of 1.3 billion people in neighboring Asia and Europe. It can not only undertake the industrial transfer due to the strategic structural adjustment in the eastern coastal areas, but also enter the Eurasian market to participate in the global market competition, which is naturally attractive.

Alashan Pass is a national first-class port integrating railway, highway, pipeline and aviation, and is also a verily "hub of silk Road artery". The new Eurasian Land Bridge, which passes through The Alasan Pass, is 2,000 kilometers shorter than the first Eurasian Land Bridge, 20 percent cheaper than shipping and 60 percent less time.

Xinjiang Alashankou Comprehensive Protection Zone Cross-border e-commerce Industrial Park construction project plans to invest 1 billion yuan, covers an area of 24.8 hectares, a total floor area of 114,000 square meters. It includes comprehensive service center, international mail exchange bureau, sorting warehouse, transit warehouse, temporary storage and processing warehouse and other ancillary facilities. It is planned to form an industrial structure of "One Heart and three Districts", including 7 storage buildings in total.

Alashankou Station of Urumqi Bureau of China Railway Group and Alashankou Customs jointly opened a green channel for cross-border e-commerce parcel transportation in order to smooth the domestic and international double-circulation strategic channel and promote the development of foreign trade economy. The railway authorities notified the Kazakh railway authorities in advance, unblocked outbound transport channels, and gave priority to loading, billing, and loading of cross-border e-commerce parcels. Customs departments communicate and cooperate with railway and cross-border e-commerce enterprises, actively implement various measures to promote the development of cross-border e-commerce, handle customs clearance formalities immediately after the arrival of goods, and continue to follow up and optimize the "rail-highway combined transportation" mode of cross-border e-commerce based on the functions of customs.

Elder brother du should be vice governor says it will speed up the construction of ala shan kou distributing trading center for import and export, import and export of processing trade industry gathering center, superposition comprehensive experimental zone, ala shan kou comprehensive bonded zones, cross-border electricity, border development and opening-up policy, western development will become open to the west of our country's construction of ala shan kou first demonstration area.

For enterprises in Guangdong who are interested in investing in Alashankou Comprehensive Protection Zone, Alashankou City promises to give maximum policy preferences, such as priority customs clearance and financial support. It aims to build an image of an "honest government" and establish a first-class business environment. In the future, vertical associations will be set up to timely collect customs clearance requests from enterprises in Guangdong to ensure timely response and practical solutions. Welcome excellent enterprises like Neptune logistics to Invest in Bozhou and Alashankou.

As a practitioner of the "One Belt and One Road" initiative, Neptune Logistics always adheres to the business philosophy of professional, friendly and pursuit of excellent service quality. In addition to providing customers with end-to-end international multimodal transport and comprehensive logistics services with China-Europe service as the main channel, we are also keen to contribute to helping Chinese made and Chinese brands to go overseas.

Next, Neptune Logistics Group will further strengthen communication with Alashankou City, deepen the cooperation between government and enterprises, achieve a win-win situation between government and enterprises, and help the high-quality development of Xinjiang Alashankou Comprehensive Protection Area.