The focus of China's coal railway transportation is concentrated in the main coal producing areas in the North

Coal transportation and railway are inseparable. For a long time, the national coal railway traffic accounts for about 60% of the railway freight volume. According to the information of the recent 2020 national coal trade fair, this year, the national railway department, with the promotion of "public to rail" coal transportation as the core, actively carried out the incremental action of railway freight, comprehensively improved the guarantee capacity of coal transportation, and achieved positive results. Looking forward to 2020, China's railway transportation center will further focus on the main coal producing areas in the north, to ensure the coal transportation demand of key areas and medium and long-term contracts. This year, the state has released advanced coal production capacity in an orderly manner, coal resources and transportation capacity are gradually concentrated in high-quality coal producing areas, and railway transportation capacity is greatly improved. From January to October, the national railway coal transportation volume accounted for 57.31% of the railway freight volume. Coal transportation and supply guarantee in key areas of the country have been further strengthened, and coal medium and long-term contracts have been given priority.

"in order to meet the demand of coal export in Shanxi Province, the railway channel capacity of" west to east coal transportation and north to South Coal Transportation "has been greatly improved. While continuing to optimize and stabilize the transportation of Datong Qinhuangdao railway, the capacity expansion and transformation of Tanghu line and vari line have been carried out, and the operation of 10000 ton heavy-duty train has been further increased." On December 4, at the 2020 national coal trade fair, Ying Huigang, director of the freight Department of China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Railway Group"), pointed out that the transport capacity of the two channels was 80 million tons higher than that of 2018. As of November, the coal transport capacity of Tanghu line and wadi line had increased by 50% and 68% year on year. At present, Haoji railway, a new channel of "north coal South transportation", has been put into operation. It only takes 1-2 days for Mongolian coal and Shaanxi coal to reach the "two lakes and one river" area through Haoji railway, which more effectively guarantees the coal supply in East China. Zhang Feilong, director of Yimei Research Institute, said that in the short term, the pattern of "coal transportation from the west to the East, rail sea (River) intermodal transportation" in China's main coal producing areas will not change significantly, and the proportion of direct railway transportation of "coal transportation from the north to the South" in Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and other central provinces, as well as Sichuan and Chongqing will increase to a certain extent.

in 2019, China's coal production areas and key coal consumption areas have effectively met the demand for coal transportation, and the traffic volume has further increased. According to Ying Huigang, this year's railways in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and new four provinces are expected to ship 1.23 billion tons of coal, an increase of 65 million tons or 5.6% year-on-year; the coal railways in Northeast China are expected to reach 220 million tons or 1% year-on-year; the coal railways in Southwest China are expected to reach 83 million tons or 5.3% year-on-year. At the same time, China Railway Group vigorously develops the agreement system transportation and steadily improves the medium and long-term contract transportation volume of coal. In 2019, under the unified organization of the national development and Reform Commission, China Railway Group signed a medium and long-term coal transportation contract of 860 million tons with major coal, electric power, metallurgy, chemical and other enterprises, an increase of 24% year on year. In order to ensure the performance of the contract, China Railway Group specially formulated and issued the railway transportation management measures for medium and long-term coal contract, which made strict regulations from the internal responsibility division, transportation capacity connection, transportation organization, transportation capacity guarantee, direct train organization, supervision and assessment, etc., ensuring the fulfillment of the performance of the medium and long-term contract railway transportation. Yinghuigang said that the contract fulfillment rate in the first 11 months of this year reached 97.6%. In order to protect the environment and reduce the cost of materials, in 2018, the state issued the relevant policy of "public to rail". Affected by this policy, the demand for coal in railway transportation has increased. By reducing the logistics cost of enterprise transportation and other measures, the railway department comprehensively promotes the "transfer of coal to railway".

"in the past two years, China's railway freight volume has achieved a substantial increase, making a positive contribution to win the blue sky defense war.". However, the problem of unreasonable transportation structure in China is still very prominent. There are still a large number of long-distance coal transportation that should be undertaken by the railway is still relying on the automobile transportation, and it is still a long way to go to promote the adjustment of transportation structure. " Ying Huigang said that in the future, the country will further increase its policy support to promote the adjustment of transportation structure, and the "transfer of coal transportation from public to railway" will become a long-term development situation. In the future, China Railway Group will support the development of railway transportation by reducing railway freight and logistics cost. It is reported that the State Railway Group conscientiously implemented the decision-making and deployment of tax reduction and fee reduction of the state, took the initiative to reduce the railway freight price twice in succession, organized the formulation and implementation of further clearing and standardizing freight miscellaneous fees, and vigorously reduced the transportation cost of enterprises. Since 2018, China Railway Group has reduced the logistics cost of shippers and logistics enterprises by about 36 billion yuan. In response to the transportation demand of "public to rail" in the coal market, China Railway Group precisely applies the price policy to tailor the "buy it now" transportation scheme for the enterprise. Through the above measures, China has achieved the steady growth of market share of coal railway traffic volume. According to Ying Huigang, this year's national railway coal transportation volume is expected to reach 1.8 billion tons, an increase of 72 million tons, or 4.2%, year-on-year. The coal production and transportation ratio is expected to further increase to 66%, 5 percentage points higher than that in 2017. A 6031 a 6031 next year, we will make every effort to ensure the transportation of electric coal a 6031 a 6031 2020 will be the end year for the country to fight against pollution and win the battle of protecting the blue sky. In order to fully implement the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee to adjust the transportation structure and ensure the completion of the adjustment goal of the transportation structure, the relevant ministries and commissions of the state and the local governments at all levels will further strengthen the guidance of the policy of "public to railway" next year, especially the transportation of coal by automobile in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and the surrounding areas, and the demand for railway transportation will be more vigorous.

China Railway Group actively studies and judges the coal transportation situation next year, and strives to improve the transportation support capacity. Yinghuigang pointed out that next year, the State Railway Group will continue to take the coal export of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and new four provinces as the core, take the coal "public to railway" as the increment, focus on the areas where the highway coal transportation volume is still large, and strive to achieve more than 100 million tons of coal transportation by expanding the supply of railway coal transportation, increasing investment in equipment and facilities and other comprehensive measures. First, we should make good use of the capacity of heavy haul channels such as Daqin line, Tanghu line and Wari line to transport coal under water. The transportation capacity of Daqin line continues to reach 450 million tons, that of Tanghu line is 150 million tons, and that of vari line continues to increase by more than 25 million tons. Second, focus on the direct transportation of Shaanxi coal and Mongolia coal railway to the outside, give full play to the capacity of Haoji railway, actively organize the direct transportation to "two lakes and one river", and strive to increase the transportation by more than 25 million tons. The third is to strengthen the coal transportation in Xinjiang, make a good job of the train organization in Xinjiang and the Hexi Corridor, and strive to increase the transportation by more than 20 million tons. Fourth, we will make every effort to meet the demand of "public to rail" in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and surrounding areas, Fenwei plain and key areas of the Yangtze River Delta, and strive to increase transportation by more than 20 million tons.

in order to give full play to the role of medium and long-term coal contracts in ensuring coal supply and promoting the stability of the coal market, under the guidance of the national development and Reform Commission, China Railway Group continued to increase the medium and long-term coal contract volume in 2020 and broaden the scope of signing. In order to further increase the total volume of medium and long-term coal contracts compared with 2019, China Railway Group put forward "three priorities": first sign contracts for coal enterprises with their own coal resources; first allocate transportation capacity for medium and long-term contracts that conform to the flow direction of Tanghu line, vari line and Haoji line; first for trustworthy supply and demand customers with high fulfillment rate of medium and long-term coal contracts and balanced delivery in light and peak seasons this year Configure and increase capacity arrangements.

during the 2020 national coal trade fair, China Railway Group organized various railway bureaus and group companies to hold symposiums with coal, power and other enterprises to further connect with the production and transportation demand of next year. The reporter learned that the railway department will strive to complete the connection of transportation capacity before December 20, so as to arrange the transportation production plan in January next year.