Chongqing - Chongqing and Sichuan governments jointly issued a plan on March 14 to further coordinate and unify the logistics’ networked operation, economic development, facilities construction, and collaborative environment for the two places’ port logistics.

According to the plan, Chongqing and Chengdu will cooperate in deploying overseas logistic operation systems in two directions.

To build a stronger southwards channel for the country's trade with Southeast Asia, Chongqing and Chengdu will boost the ability to organize goods supply with the governments of Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand.

In the direction toward Europe, Chengdu and Chongqing will cooperate with the China-Europe (Chengdu-Chongqing) Railway Express. The two places will explore to build overseas storage in significant passes along the China-Europe railway like Bremen, Germany, Budapest, Hungary, and Toshkent, Uzbekistan.

The twin cities will also cooperate on upgrading the air transportation system along with other cities in Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, by collaborating on regional airports' pricing fixes and flight operations.

The plan expects that up to 2025, Sichuan and Chongqing will co-build a strong logistics base, hitting over 1.4 billion yuan of logistics value, with a 1% cost less than that in 2020.

In 2011, the first China-Europe Railway Express set out in Chongqing. (Photo provided to iChongqing)

Guoyuan Port in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, as the largest inland sea-rail combined port in China, is a significant part of further opening inland China to the global market.

Guoyuan Port is the essential connection point of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the Belt and Road Initiative and the significant carrier of the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Interconnection Multimodal Transport Demonstration Base. (Photo/Feng Zhiyi, Liangjiang New Area Media Center)

In the plan, Guoyuan Port will co-build the shipping center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River with the dry port of Chengdu Economic and Technological Development Zone. In the future, Chengdu and Chongqing will also jointly suggest that the upper authority conduct the feasibility study of opening a new inland waterway through the Three Gorges.

By the plan’s vision, Chongqing-Chengdu economic circle expects to reach 460 thousand cargos of transportation through the new land-sea corridor, over 5,000 trains through the China-Europe Railway Express, and over 310 million tons of throughput in the ports of Chengdu-Chongqing region.

(This article is co-produced by Guo Shuyu, Liangjiang New Area Media Center)