In May 11th, the first South Asia international freight trains in Portland departure, 10 days later, the train loaded with "Chinese manufacturing" freight train, by rail and road transport, will arrive in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. This marks the Lanzhou in the "The Belt and Road" construction, after the opening of "Lanzhou" Central European freight train, once again an important step to the South West open.

A major strategic concept of Belt and Road Initiative proposed over the past two years, along the country have responded. Last year, Chinese with more than 30 countries signed a joint "The Belt and Road" memorandum of understanding ", some of the main The Belt and Road skeleton has been established, such as Mongolia and Russia economic corridor, China - Indochina economic corridor, the economic corridor of the new Eurasian Continental Bridge, China - Central Asia - west corridor, Pakistan Economic Corridor, Meng Zhongyin Myanmar economic corridor, some have made gratifying achievements. First of all, China and Europe, in the past, between China and Europe, freight mainly depends on air, sea and road transport, the cost of air and highway transportation is high, and the time of shipping is long. The characteristics of short distance, high speed, high safety and safety of central trains, fast, green, little affected by the natural environment advantages, has become the backbone of the way road transport in international logistics.

The prospect of international freight transportation is very broad and has a very high price ratio. As we all know, logistics trade in South Asia and Southeast Asia has been completed mainly by shipping in the past. The railway freight special train opened up the way of land transportation, and will give full play to the advantages of railway transportation. You can imagine, in the future by the railway between each country and City Economic and trade, goods, personnel flow, cultural exchanges and technical support, will strengthen the inter city effect "," development pattern of The Belt and Road "will also help in establishing cooperation system, cooperation, common development of all countries in the world into each other in. With the complementation of science and technology and the mutual assistance of resources, the railway will also take a step in its development and eventually spread out a road map of the world railway transportation.

"Now The Belt and Road" has become a trend, each an international railway line opened to bring a new round of development opportunities along the countries and regions, the industry should take the development of new ideas to meet this new era, work together to create a win-win situation. With the railway and South Asia cooperation, our railway is constantly "upgrade" speed, we believe that the "South Asia international freight train" will become "The Belt and Road grand strategy on international freight star products, will also boost the common economic development to the benefit of the people.