Abstract
As the artery of national economy, a nation’s important infrastructure, and the resource-efficient and environmentally-friendly means of transport, railway is the integral part and the pillar in modern logistic system in China. In recent years, environment for the development of railway logistics in China keeps improving, infrastructures of railway logistics are being bettered, and logistic products are making constant innovations; thus China is gradually establishing a modern railway logistic service system.
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Zhunchi Railway lies in central Inner Mongolia and northern Shanxi Province.
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The diverse business means being extended from the primary business in railway industry to other fields in the form of side industries.
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The New Europe-Asia Continental Bridge refers to the second Europe-Asia Continental Bridge, which is the convenient railway that connects the maritime transport routes on the fringes of Asia and Europe. It starts with Rizhao and Lianyungang in China on the east, and leaves China at Alataw Pass in Xinjiang on the west. Then the railway goes through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and reaches Rotterdam Port in the Netherlands. It is now the most convenient channel that connects the west and the east of the Europe-Asia continent.
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Xiao, Jh. (2016). Development of Railway Logistics in China. In: Wang, L., Lee, Sj., Chen, P., Jiang, Xm., Liu, Bl. (eds) Contemporary Logistics in China. Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1052-1_7
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