Four-Route Silk Road

Building an inland highland of opening up is Henan's vision for high-quality development. Leveraging its geographical location in the Central Plains, Henan has devoted due efforts to building the Silk Road on the land, the internet, and the sea while making progress with the Silk Road in the air. With close coordination among these four routes, which feature high-level connectivity and high- quality multi-modal transportation, it strives to achieve a historic transformation from a hinterland to a highland of opening up.

In its 14th Five-year Plan for Economic and Social Development and Long-range Objectives Through the Year 2035, issued in April 2021, Henan set the goal of substantially facilitating the coordination through strategic actions to promote mutually-reinforcing, integrated advances in the four routes.

With the Air Silk Road taking the lead, a pioneering zone of the hub economy with international influence is envisioned: (1) The Zhengzhou-Luxembourg Air Silk Road will be further enhanced to forge a global network of partner hubs. (2) Based on the New Eurasian Land Bridge Economic Corridor, the Land Silk Road will be built with equal emphasis on transportation and trade and with a larger capacity and a higher quality, in order to make it a cross-Eurasian economic corridor with both trunk and branch lines and serve as a hub for collection and distribution. (3) Henan will support innovations and breakthroughs to build the Online Silk Road into an international center of cross-border e-commerce and diversified trade. (4) The province will step up the construction of inland port facilities and expand the rail routes for rail-sea intermodal transportation in order to better align itself with the Maritime Silk Road. To better serve these purposes, relevant mechanisms will be improved to facilitate planning coordination, policy communication, infrastructure connectivity, information sharing, and service linkage.

The Air Silk Road: Commencing operation in June 2014, the Zhengzhou-Luxembourg Air Silk Road sees booming cooperation between Zhengzhou and Luxembourg as two key cargo hubs. It now connects Asia, Europe, and America and boasts a world-leading transportation capacity with cargo routes covering all major economies. By August 2023, the Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport had opened 258 passenger and cargo routes to more than 200 cities in 26 countries and regions on the three continents and operated more than 10,000 inbound and outbound cargo flights.

The Land Silk Road: By the end of June 2023, the China Railway Express freight trains had made over 8,300 trips between Henan and Europe, building an international logistics network with eight entry and exit ports and 21 direct routes and a system of domestic and overseas logistics hubs. The overseas business network links more than 140 cities in over 40 countries and more than 6,000 partners at home and abroad. These trains form the "caravans on the rail" that contribute to the Belt and Road cooperation and connect domestic and international markets and the eastern, central and western regions of China.

The Online Silk Road: The Global Cross-border E-commerce Conference, which is permanently based in Zhengzhou, has been held for seven sessions since its inception in 2017. The China (Henan) International Trade Single Window leads the country with a daily handling capacity of more than 30 million deals. In 2022, Henan's import and export volume through cross-border e-commerce exceeded 220 billion yuan for the first time, involving 196 countries and regions and achieving the goal of doing business worldwide.

The Maritime Silk Road: The trains running on the seven rail-sea intermodal routes connecting Zhengzhou with Tianjin, Lianyungang, Qingdao, Ningbo, and other ports have operated 600 shifts, and Zhoukou has opened six domestic container routes to Shanghai and other ports as well as five international routes to ports including the Long Beach in Los Angeles, the US.

四路協同

建設內陸開放新高地，是河南發展的美好愿景，也是河南高質量發展的必經之路。地處中原的河南充分發揮區位優勢，以“空中絲綢之路”為引領，統籌推進陸上、網上、海上絲綢之路建設，以高水平互聯互通和高質量多式聯運發展為核心，形成“四路協同”創新集聚發展態勢，推動河南實現由內陸腹地向開放高地的歷史性轉變。

2021年4月，《河南省國民經濟和社會發展第十四個五年規劃和二〇三五年遠景目標綱要》明確“四路協同”水平顯著提升的發展目標，部署高水平建設“四條絲綢之路”的戰略行動，提出以“空中絲綢之路”為引領，全面推動“四路”聯動互促、融合并進，打造具有國際影響力的樞紐經濟先行區：提升鄭州—盧森堡“空中絲綢之路”品牌優勢，打造全球樞紐伙伴網絡；以新亞歐大陸橋經濟走廊為引領，推動“陸上絲綢之路”擴量提質和運貿一體化發展，打造干支結合、樞紐集散、貫通歐亞的陸上經濟走廊；促進“網上絲綢之路”創新突破，打造國際性跨境電子商務與多元化貿易中心；暢通融入“海上絲綢之路”，深化內陸港設施共建和鐵海聯運班列線路拓展；創新“四路協同”機制，強化規劃統籌、政策互通、設施聯通、信息共享、服務聯動。

在空中，自2014年6月開通以來，鄭州—盧森堡“空中絲綢之路”“雙樞紐”合作不斷深入，已形成“一點連三洲，一線串歐美”的運營格局，貨運航線實現對全球主要經濟體全覆蓋，貨運保障能力位居世界前列。截至2023年8月，鄭州機場已開通客貨運航線258條，覆蓋亞歐美三大洲26個國家和地區200多個城市，出入境貨運航班突破1萬架次。

在陸上，截至2023年6月底，中歐班列（中豫號）累計開行超8300班，構建了“8個口岸出入境、21條線路直達”的國際物流網絡和“1+N”境內外物流樞紐體系，境外業務網絡輻射40多個國家140多個城市，境內外合作伙伴超過6000家，初步實現“連通境內外，輻射東中西”， 成為共建“一帶一路”的“鋼鐵駝隊”。

在網上，全球跨境電商大會永久落戶鄭州，自2017年起已連續舉辦七屆；河南國際貿易“單一窗口”平臺處理能力每天3000萬單以上，居全國前列。2022年，河南跨境電商進出口交易額首次突破2200億元，業務輻射196個國家和地區，實現了“買全球、賣全球”的發展目標。

在海上，鄭州至天津、連云港、青島、寧波等港口的7條海鐵聯運班列已累計開行超過600班；周口相繼開通至上海港等6條國內集裝箱航線以及至美國洛杉磯長灘港等5條國際航線，實現了“箱通世界、貨運全球”。