Guiyang boosts its logistics hub economy

Guiyang city – capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – and Guian New Area are making moves to boost their logistics hub economy.

Guiyang has reportedly made significant progress in economic and social development by optimizing its logistics infrastructure, improving facility functions and the scale of logistics parks and centers. It has also advanced, by establishing its status as a key city for the new western land-sea corridor – as well as by boosting the quality, efficiency and dynamics of industrial logistics development and by promoting the growth of the entire industrial chain.

Guiyang has coordinated its city, district and county-level departments to push forwards with its development as a national logistics hub, the expansion of its logistics infrastructure and with the establishment of a collection and distribution transport network. What's more, the municipal government has innovated working methods, summarized problems and put forward solutions.

Guiyang has focused on integrating itself into the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and the national logistics hub network – linking up with the New International Land-sea Corridor, the Chengdu-Chongqing economic cycle, the central Yunnan province economic circle, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Beibu Gulf economic zone. That's in a bid to become a key hub for the logistics industry cluster in the southwestern area, a supply-chain center for the new land-sea corridor and a demonstration area for the development of the hub economy.

It has accelerated the development of a national land-port and airport logistics hub that highlights the Shuanglong-Gaimao comprehensive logistics hub area and a national production-service logistics hub that focuses on the Guiyang Free Trade Zone. It has pushed on with the Dulaying railway freight yard and connections with the northern logistics cluster, as well as a national trade-service logistics hub that focuses on the Qingzhen national demonstration logistics park and connects with the Huchao railway freight yard.

Furthermore, Guiyang has sped up the upgrade of the Guiyang-Guangzhou High-speed Railway and the construction of the Guiyang-Nanning High-speed Railway and the Qiangui (Longli-Liuzhou) Railway (Line 2).

It has also moved things up at the Huangtong-Yaopu logistics park, to transform the city into a key part of the logistics channel to Southeast Asia and also establish a regional railway hub that can reach Sichuan in the north, Guangxi in the south, Hunan in the east and Yunnan in the west.

In addition, Guiyang has also introduced and fostered a number of model logistics companies. It has guided them to build cross-regional and diversified-transport operation platforms, set up a multimodal transport system, boosted the integration of the logistics industry and other industries and increased the value of the logistics supply chain.

Guiyang's efforts have also included the implementation of national and provincial measures on reducing logistics costs, as well as the development of road-railway-water transport and international railway multimodal transport. They have also included streamlined customs clearance procedures, the guarantee of land, tax and capital and the issuing of policies to help companies reduce logistics costs and improve their efficiency.