Recently, a shipment of 12 China-made used cars was loaded onto a vessel at Yueyang's Chenglingji Port, setting sail directly for the Republic of Togo (Togo) in Africa. This marks the official launch of the used car export route from Chenglingji, Hunan to Togo, which is led by Yueyang Guansheng Investment Development Co., Ltd.

As a "bridgehead" for Hunan's opening to the outside world, Yueyang Lingang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone is positioned as a key node for dual circulation in central China. The zone has adopted a path of joint channel construction, collaborative rule-making, and data sharing. It has partnered with the Hunan Provincial Chenglingji Port Group, Yueyang Central Corridor Company, Chongqing Yuxinou Company, and China Guangzhou Railway Group to jointly build the "Central China Dual Circulation Corridor." By launching multimodal transport routes and enabling online access to logistics information, the zone has established a modern logistics operation system featuring "corridors + hubs + networks." Currently, it has established one main corridor and five core sub-corridors, covering 18 provinces nationwide and extending to Southeast Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa via rail-sea intermodal transport.

To enhance international competitiveness, the zone has built efficient and convenient international logistics corridors by optimizing transport modes and expanding foreign trade routes. Through multimodal transport initiatives such as "road-to-rail" and "road-to-sea" services, the zone has increased the frequency of shipping routes in Yueyang's Chenglingji Port, boosting the share of water and rail transport in Hunan, Hubei, and Chongqing while reducing total logistics costs by approximately 1.2%. A new southward maritime corridor has been established, opening up logistics routes for enterprises along the Yangtze River to access Southeast Asia and Africa via ports in south China, thereby promoting deep integration between the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Yangtze River Economic Belt. For enterprises exporting goods to RCEP member states by using the rail-sea multimodal transport service via the Central China Dual Circulation Corridor, the transport time is shortened by 5 to 10 days compared to river-sea intermodal transport.

The zone has made institutional innovations to overcome bottlenecks in opening-up in inland regions. It has taken the lead in piloting standardized waybills, providing the multimodal transport service based on a single transport document system, and promoting mutual recognition of customs supervision between Changsha and Guangzhou Customs authorities to enhance logistics efficiency. The zone also pioneered the "mechanism for excluding inland waterway freight costs from dutiable value for imported goods transferred between customs," enabling enterprises to save costs when using the "golden waterway" to enter and exit Hunan. The zone also launched the country's first "customs clearance facilitation model for imported condiments," establishing a river-based industrial belt for the trade, processing, and sales of condiments, and setting a benchmark for trade facilitation.

Focusing on resource integration, regulatory coordination, and industrial clustering, the zone has explored the transformation of logistics corridors toward "comprehensive cooperation." This initiative enhances regional development and openness, builds a new open economy system that connects east and west and links domestic and international markets, and establishes a model for the coordinated development of logistics corridors along the Yangtze River Economic Belt. This model has been selected as a "Best Practice Case" for pilot free trade zones by the Ministry of Commerce and has been issued for nationwide promotion.

责编：冯宇轩

一审：冯宇轩

二审：田梦瑶

三审：秦慧英

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