After nearly 4 years’ development, the China-Europe freight trains in Shenyang have realized the normalization of the smooth operation, and the average time to reach Russia and Germany is about 10 days and 14 days respectively. They built a new platform of open cooperation for Shenyang integrating into the global economy and talking with world-class enterprises directly.

At present, the China-Europe freight trains in Shenyang have served 447 enterprises in Liaoning province, including 203 enterprises in the Shenyang metropolitan area (including 140 enterprises in Shenyang). In 2020, the freight volume of the China-Europe freight trains in Shenyang was 15,483 boxes, and the value of the import and export goods was 1.64 billion dollars, of which the freight volume and the value of goods of the enterprises of Shenyang accounted for about 50%. The operation of the China-Europe freight trains in Shenyang has attracted the well-known enterprises at home and abroad, including Deutsche Bahn, Russian Railways, and China Far East Group Co. Ltd., to Shenyang for development successfully. The embryonic form of the industrial ecosphere with the freight trains as the platform, consisting of logistics enterprises, trade enterprises, freight forwarding enterprises and the financial and insurance enterprises was presented.

At the same time, more than 2500 enterprises in East China, South China, North China, Germany and Russia also use the China-Europe freight trains in Shenyang. They speeded up concentrating the flows of people, goods, capital, information to Shenyang to assist the development of the hub economy of Shenyang, and provided the important support for Shenyang speeding up the construction of national central city, building "a hub, and four centers", integrating into the new development pattern of "double cycle" actively, and achieving the comprehensive revitalization.

(Liu Guodong)