“一带一路”倡议与边境城市发展:中欧班列对跨境物流和边海联运的影响

The Belt and Road Initiative and Border City Development:The Impact of the China-Europe Freight Train on Cross-Border Logistics and Land-Sea Intermodal Shipping

在“一带一路”倡议进入第九个年头时,迈入高质量发展阶段的重要性和迫切性越发明显。由于“一带一路”的空间延伸和效率提升主要是沿着六条经济走廊,走廊的沿线连接和流通顺畅成为关键,影响连接流通的闸门和枢纽则是走廊经过的主要边境城市。因此,走廊上的关键边境城市发展成为“一带一路”高质量发展的核心问题和挑战。本文以中欧班列为主进行分析,梳理阐明“一带一路”走廊和边境城市的重要关系,分析不同边境城市作为枢纽对中欧班列和相关的经济走廊的影响,最后把分析焦点转回到边境城市如何通过向物流中心带动的多元发展促进保持中欧班列的势头,带动更多的陆海联运、边海联运和跨境贸易,为“一带一路”高质量发展注入持久动力。

As the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI) enters its ninth year in 2022,its high-quality development becomes more important and urgent. Since BRI’s spatial extension and improved efficiency run primarily along its six economic corridors, the latter’s cross-border connectivity and flows become a key, with the border cities along these corridors serving as critical gateways and hubs and thus becoming a challenging priority for the BRI’s high-quality development. In this paper, I first clarify the important relationship between the BRI corridors and their key border cities and the latter’s impact on the China-Europe Freight Train(CEFT) along these corridors. Then I focus on how border cities facilitate the CEFT development via the clustered creation and upgrading of local logistics capacity, stimulate more land-sea intermodal shipping and cross-border trade, and contribute to the BRI’s high-quality development over time.