My family once traveled
inland.
我家曾经在国内旅行。
The train turned away from the coast and headed
inland.
火车离开了海岸，驶向内陆。
The next day, they drove
inland.
第二天，他们乘车开往内陆。
Liangshan county, which used to be a small inland county town in Shandong province, has grown into a port city connected to rivers and seas.
梁山县过去是山东省的一个内陆小县城，现在已经发展成为一个通江通海的港口城市。
Wang Peng, associate research fellow at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, said, "The measures encourage MNCs to set up production bases in inland China, where there are some comparative advantages, such as resources.
北京社会科学院副研究员王鹏说：“这些措施鼓励跨国公司在中国内陆建立生产基地，那里有一些比较优势，比如资源。
Danfoss Group, the Danish engineering company, announced the signing of China’s first green development initiative for the inland waterway shipping industry, said the company in a statement.
丹麦工程公司丹佛斯集团在一份声明中表示，该公司宣布签署中国首个内河航运业绿色发展倡议。
Danfoss, China Yangtze River Shipping Co Ltd and other major players in the shipping and shipbuilding fields gathered in Wuhan, Hubei province, last week to explore the technological pathway to the electrification of inland waterway ships.
上周，丹佛斯、中国长江航运有限公司和其他航运和造船领域的主要参与者聚集在湖北省武汉市，探索内河船舶电气化的技术途径。
Attracted by fast-growing industries like information technology and electric vehicle manufacturing, the Stuttgart, Germany-based group will increase its investment in inland cities, including Wuhan, Hubei province, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, and Chongqing municipality in the coming years.
受信息技术和电动汽车制造等快速增长行业的吸引，这家总部位于德国斯图加特的集团将在未来几年增加对内陆城市的投资，包括湖北省武汉市、陕西省西安市和重庆市。
With a designed speed of 250 kilometers per hour, the Jinhua-Jiande High-speed Railway links three cities — Jinhua, Lanxi and Jiande — with China's major railway network and aims to provide faster rail service for passengers traveling between Zhejiang and inland provinces.
金华至建德高速铁路设计时速250公里，连接金华、兰溪和建德三个城市与中国主要铁路网，旨在为浙江与内陆省份之间的乘客提供更快的铁路服务。
Eager to reinforce its earning strength on the Chinese mainland and the Asia-Pacific region, Maersk completed the acquisition of LF Logistics, a Hong Kong-based contract logistics company, with premium capabilities within omnichannel fulfillment services, e-commerce and inland transport in the Asia-Pacific region in 2022.
为了加强其在中国大陆和亚太地区的盈利实力，马士基于2022年完成了对总部位于香港的合同物流公司LF物流的收购，该公司在亚太地区的全渠道履行服务、电子商务和内陆运输方面具有卓越的能力。
During the three years or so since its establishment, Shandong Port Group has launched a transportation service network, including shipping routes, freight trains and inland ports.
自成立以来的三年左右时间里，山东港口集团已经建立了包括航线、货运列车和内陆港口在内的运输服务网络。
It has also built 32 inland ports and connected them with 82 freight train lines.
它还建造了32个内陆港口，并与82条货运列车线路相连。
The railway serves as a crucial link for inland Jiangxi province, especially in terms of trade and tourism.
这条铁路是江西内陆省份的重要纽带，尤其是在贸易和旅游方面。
China Railway 24th Bureau Group Corp Ltd (CR24), a unit of China Railway Construction Corp, is leveraging its edge in infrastructure to help improve connections between inland and coastal cities.
中铁二十四局集团有限公司（CR24）是中国铁建集团旗下的子公司，正在利用其在基础设施方面的优势，帮助改善内陆和沿海城市之间的联系。
With a total length of 324 kilometers and a designated speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the Hefei-Xinyi High-speed Railway connects five counties and two cities in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces and aims to further facilitate trips between inland and coastal areas.
合新高铁全长324公里，指定时速350公里，连接安徽省和江苏省的五个县和两个市，旨在进一步方便内陆和沿海地区之间的出行。
State-owned enterprises focused on infrastructure construction are ramping up efforts nationwide, especially in central inland provinces and with more focus on key livelihood projects, to inject more impetus into the nation's recovery.
专注于基础设施建设的国有企业正在全国范围内加大力度，特别是在内陆中部省份，并更多地关注重点民生项目，为国家复苏注入更多动力。
"The railway will be connected to the national rail network and play a key role in linking inland regions with coastal ones, especially those along the Yangtze River," said the Party chief of the CR24 project team.
CR24项目组党委书记表示：“这条铁路将与国家铁路网相连，在连接内陆地区和沿海地区，特别是长江沿岸地区方面发挥关键作用。”。
P. Moller-Maersk, a Danish shipping and logistics service provider, announced on Wednesday that it had completed the acquisition of LF Logistics, a Hong Kong-based contract logistics company with capabilities within omnichannel fulfillment services, e-commerce and inland transport in the Chinese mainland and the Asia-Pacific region.
丹麦航运和物流服务提供商P.Moller-Maersk周三宣布，已完成对LF物流的收购。LF物流是一家总部位于香港的合同物流公司，在中国大陆和亚太地区拥有全渠道履行服务、电子商务和内陆运输能力。
As the major channel for inland shipping in China, the annual transportation volume of the Yangtze River reaches 3 billion tons, accounting for more than 60 percent of the total inland shipping in China.
作为中国内陆航运的主要通道，长江年运输量达30亿吨，占中国内陆航运总量的60%以上。
"Qingdao Port is a key port serving traders in inland cities, especially those along the Yellow River.
“青岛港是为内陆城市特别是黄河沿岸城市贸易商服务的重要港口。
Passenger and freight railway services between inland Jiangxi province and coastal Fujian province will be more convenient, as the railway between Qingliu station, Jiangxi, and Quanzhou station, Fujian, is seeing accelerated steps toward official operation later this year.
随着江西清流站和福建泉州站之间的铁路在今年晚些时候加速正式运营，内陆江西省和沿海福建省之间的客货铁路服务将更加便利。
With a total length of 464.2 kilometers and a designed speed of 160 km/h, the Xingguo-Quanzhou Railway aims to facilitate regional connectivity between the two provinces, and help the older inland cities along the way tackle long-endured transportation woes.
兴国至泉州铁路全长464.2公里，设计时速160公里，旨在促进两省之间的区域连通，并帮助沿途的内陆老城市解决长期以来的交通问题。
The operation of the rail will also improve connectivity between Maoming with inland provinces and regions, including Hunan, Hubei and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
这条铁路的运营还将改善茂名与内陆省份和地区的连通性，包括湖南、湖北和广西壮族自治区。
The guideline underscored the importance of promoting the construction of an inland open economy pilot zone while strengthening regional cooperation.
《指导意见》强调了在加强区域合作的同时，推进内陆开放型经济试验区建设的重要性。
Wei Hanyang, a power market analyst at BloombergNEF, said the Haiyang project is only the beginning as China has also approved a nuclear power-based heating plant in Heilongjiang province, which will be the first inland reactor not connected to a power generator.
BloombergNEF的电力市场分析师魏汉阳表示，海阳项目只是一个开始，因为中国还批准了黑龙江省的一座核供热厂，这将是第一座没有连接发电机的内陆反应堆。
Global supply chains were confronted with challenges and impacts from port congestion, container shortage, and inland transportation delays.
全球供应链面临着港口拥堵、集装箱短缺和内陆运输延误的挑战和影响。
Currently, its China business mainly covers economically developed coastal regions in the east, such as the Pearl River Delta region, and its next phase expansion will focus on more inland cities in provinces such as Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Hunan and Anhui.
Eskelund, however, noted that while China's ports and maritime transport are efficient, there is still a gap between the inland areas and big port cities.
Eskelund said that he has observed a very significant willingness and understanding of the ability of efficient logistics to foster economic growth in the inland areas.
Since the second half of last year, although containers continued to move from Asia to Europe and North America, few sailed in the opposite direction due to COVID-19 restrictions, as well as labor shortages at European and US ports, warehouses and inland logistics.
It has opened 35 railway terminals in inland China over the past two years.
The potential to be a logistics hub for the inland regions of the SADC is the vision of the country, he added.
Shows on CIIE exhibits have also been held in other inland provinces and regions including Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and Qinghai province across the nation, Tong added.
"China is undergoing an approval process for a nuclear-based heat plant in Heilongjiang province, which will be the first inland reactor no longer associated with electricity generation,"Wei said.
SPIC also has reserved several project sites in both inland and coastal areas of China.
Advanced nuclear projects are already under development in inland provinces.
Tisco's strength in stainless steel, its production line of ballpoint pen tips among other featured products, will beef up the competitiveness of China Baowu as well as enhance Baowu's business influence in inland areas, said Zhang.
"Trust, price, selection and convenience are important drivers for online shopping and Walmart has already gained 'trust' through its physical-store presence in China for decades, and has been positioning itself with attractive prices and vast selection (including both imports and popular local goods)," said Williamson, who is also a professor at the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship at California State University, San Bernardino.
Zhou Zhiping, CCAG's president, said all the vehicles were shipped from Chongqing to Shanghai Port via inland waterborne transport.
"Wu went further to allay fears that Kenya's Chinese funded Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) would not be constructed beyond Naivasha town where China Roads and Bridges Corporation (CRBC), an affiliate of CCCC is currently constructing an Inland Container Depot.
Feng said the group will build more labs in China's inland areas as domestic companies' demand for both exports and digital technologies to improve production efficiency has notably surged in recent years.
In the future, we will strengthen our online efforts and expand inland sales.
It was launched jointly by DHL Global Forwarding and Xi'an International Inland Port Investment &Development Group Co Ltd. Steve Huang, CEO of DHL Global Forwarding China, said the service is the latest development of DHL in supporting the Belt and Road Initiative with increased logistics capabilities from China to European cities in a faster way.
Both teams have showed a tremendously high degree of enthusiasm and professionalism," said Qu Jinwei, general manager of Xi'an International Inland Port Investment & Development Group.
Viking will also look to boost cruises on China's inland waterways, such as in the scenic Yangtze River.
UL needs to invest more because the industry is moving into the inland areas and it wants to follow this trend.
She said that of all the LNG terminals in Zhejiang province, the Zhoushan terminal, backed by the Yangtze River Delta market, along with its sea route and access to inland provinces, will play a significant role in China's LNG receiving capacity, and more private and foreign companies will be gearing up to meet that growth.
Envision Energy (Jiangsu) Co, a private wind power generation equipment manufacturer and distributor, is ramping up efforts to bring green energy projects to China's inland cities and to offer digitalized solutions to wind farm operations, with the support of China CITIC Bank Corp. For safety, wind farm owners set higher technical requirements on turbines installed in inland areas that record much slower wind speeds, compared to those spinning in mountain areas.
German exhibition giant Messe München GmbH has vowed to expand its presence in China by introducing more exhibition brands to the country's second-tier coastal cities and inland regions.
Now, we've expanded to second-tier coastal cities and the inland regions in China," he said.
In recent years, Tunisians from underdeveloped inland areas, especially those from the west and south, are demanding more jobs.
The trade zone, according to Hu, will not only accommodate the ever-growing demand in logistics, but also cultivate the export processing manufacturing, thus providing sustainable incentives for Djibouti's development and for the rest of its inland partners.
Comprehensive: The country's reform and opening-up has extended from pilot zones to all tiers of cities, from coastal areas to inland regions.
Dow is committed to having a strong presence in these regions to better support existing customers who are moving their businesses from the traditional coastal areas to the inland markets, while addressing the needs of new customers with local markets," said Liveris.
In an attempt to find a shortcut to an IPO, Chinese companies are breaking with tradition and moving from big coastal cities to small inland towns.
When moving inland companies face issues with staff, particularly high-level technicians and managers.
According to Atanas Maina, the managing director of Kenya Railways, as known as KR, the agreement involves delivery of cargo from China through the port of Mombasa to the Inland Container Depot, known as the ICD, in the Embakasi district of the capital Nairobi, for clearance.
As China's longest river, the Yangtze traverses western, central and eastern China and connects the prosperous coast with the less developed inland regions.
The reactor, which has a service life of 60 years, can be applied either in the inland or coastal areas to provide cheap and sustainable electricity compared with other traditional fuels including coal and natural gas.
The initiative is attracting more and more foreign companies to follow the "go west" trend by opening plants and offices in inland regions and Dow does not want to be left behind.
It will provide efficient logistics services for online shoppers in southern inland cities and Hong Kong.
COFCO also acquired the terminal near the busy inland port of St. Louis as part of its Nidera deal, completed in 2016.
Speaking at a ceremony starting the flight to Chengdu on Sunday in Addis Ababa International Airport premises, Liu Tao, Counselor at the Chinese embassy in Ethiopia said with Chengdu being an economic and culture hub for inland part of China the new route has great potential to enhance the agricultural, trading, tourism cooperation with the outside of the world with Ethiopian acting as bridge.
Two Chinese companies on Monday signed a contract with Kazakhstan's national railway company to buy 49 percent of an inland port near the China-Kazakhstan border.
As Singapore's largest homegrown logistics provider, CWT has global network connectivity to around 200 direct ports and 1,600 inland destinations.
Foshan, a major inland port along the Pearl River, is estimated to have reached cargo throughput of more than 100 million tons in 2023, indicating that it has become another inland port with annual freight volume surpassing 100 million tons.
The record high investment in the construction of waterway transport infrastructure facilities along the Pearl River has not only helped to promote the high-quality development of the waterway's transportation, but has also promoted optimization of the layout of industries along the river which links inland areas with Hong Kong and Macao, said Wang.
"And the advanced inland waterway transport system has helped transfer industries to the vast Chinese central and western regions with support for the implementation of major strategies, including construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area," Wang said.
The BRI has facilitated China's efforts in building an open economy, especially accelerating the further opening-up of inland provincial regions in western and northern China, the report said.
The China-Kazakhstan (Lianyungang) logistics cooperation base has not only promoted mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Kazakhstan, but provided new opportunities to other inland Belt and Road countries, said Zhang Wei, an expert with China Academy of Railway Sciences Corp Ltd.
The China-Kazakhstan (Lianyungang) logistics cooperation base has not only promoted mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Kazakhstan, but provided new opportunities to other inland Belt and Road countries, said Zhang Wei, an expert with the China Academy of Railway Sciences Corporation Limited.
It will inject new momentum into Shaanxi's efforts to develop into an inland hub for reform and opening-up, as well as contribute to the development of China's high-level opening-up," said Shi Gaoling, deputy secretary of the Party working committee of the Yangling Demonstration Area and deputy director of the management committee of the area.
Thanks to the trade corridor, an increasing number of products from China's inland provinces and regions along the route, such as the Ningxia Hui autonomous region's red wine and nuts from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, have explored broader markets worldwide.
With a designed speed of 250 kilometers per hour, the Jinhua-Jiande HSR is a locally built project linking Zhejiang's Jinhua, Lanxi and Jiande with China's major railway network and aims to provide faster rail service for passengers traveling between Zhejiang and inland provinces.
So far, the Henan pilot FTZ has made 546 institutional innovations in areas regarding administrative processes, regulations,finance and multi-modal transportation that combines air and inland transportation channels seamlessly.
From coastal areas to central inland regions and border provinces, the FTZs have become pacesetters for the country's high-standard reform and opening-up endeavors.
For example, Shanghai has coordinated the integrated development between its economic zones and ports, including inland river ports along the Yangtze River and the coastal ports of the Yangtze River Delta.
Under its plan, Guangdong's major port groups, including Guangzhou Port Group and Shenzhen Yantian Port Group, will play the role of hub ports, while the abundant sources of goods from various inland river terminals along the Pearl River will act as feeder ports.
Earlier this year, the GAC launched a project to use opportunities arising from the thematic education campaign to address unnecessary inland river freight charges levied on imported goods.
Thanks to the trade corridor, an increasing number of products from China's inland provinces and regions along the route, such as Ningxia Hui autonomous region's red wine and nuts from Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, have explored broader markets worldwide.
With a designed speed of 250 kilometers per hour, the high-speed railway is a locally built project linking Zhejiang's Jinhua, Lanxi and Jiande with China's major railway network, and it aims to provide faster rail service for passengers traveling between Zhejiang and inland provinces.
The Hefei-Xinyi High-speed Railway, a line aiming to better link inland Anhui province with the national railway network, reported major progress on a bridge-building project, according to CR24, which is involved in construction on several sections of the railway.
The inland city, pushed to think outside the box over the past few years, has sounded a clarion call for "strengthening itself through the marine economy".
These international logistics channels have significantly promoted trade and reduced transportation time between durian-producing regions in Southeast Asia and the inland areas of China.
Now, with the addition of the International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (ILSTC), a major international logistics project participated in by China and some of its trade partners, the logistics time from inland provinces to Malaysia is cut by about half.
The journey takes an average of 16 days, less than half the time of the maritime route, and makes inland Chongqing a gateway to Western markets.
So far, the ILSTC has extended to 13 provincial-level regions including Chongqing and the provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Hainan, Zhanjiang of Guangdong province and Huaihua of Hunan province, offering a faster alternative to the coast between inland western regions and ASEAN countries.
Thanks to the constant construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, a trade and logistics passage jointly built by provincial-level regions in inland China and ASEAN members, Beibu Gulf Port plays a pivotal role in providing maritime transportation with large transport volumes and lower costs, efficiently helping meet consumption needs.
The foreign trade of Chongqing, an inland city on the fast track of China's new round of opening up, hit a record high of 815.84 billion yuan in 2022, up 2 percent from 2021.
Connecting the three cities of Jinhua, Lanxi and Jiande with China's major railway network, the high-speed railway, which is scheduled to open before October 2025, aims to help cities further develop tourism attractions and provide a faster link between Zhejiang and inland provinces.
Supported by Wenzhou's well-developed transportation infrastructure and geographic advantages, a total of 34 twenty-foot equivalent container units loaded with various exports, such as lamps, suitcases and auto parts, were shipped by train from Nanchang, capital of inland Jiangxi province, to Wenzhou on Feb 19, as part of the Wenzhou-Nanchang sea-rail intermodal express service.
China's inland cities will increase their use of the country's railroad links to seaports in order to boost exports to other signatory economies of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, which will help sustain the country's foreign trade growth this year, said government officials and market observers.
In recent years, inland provinces such as Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and Hubei have been exploring various options to improve their exports and make them more sustainable.
Inland cities, including Nanchang in Jiangxi province and Guiyang in Guizhou province, have operated a number of freight train services to export goods to countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Singapore, Japan and the Republic of Korea in recent months.
Connecting the three cities of Jinhua, Lanxi and Jiande with China's major railway network, the Jinhua-Jiande High-speed Railway, which is scheduled to open before October 2025, aims to help cities further develop tourism attractions and provide a faster link between Zhejiang and inland provinces.
Wang also said that while reinforcing the growth of general trade, China will further encourage the transfer of processing trade to inland regions from coastal areas, support the fast and healthy development of new trade models like cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouses, and continue optimizing product offerings to cultivate new growth momentum.
Leveraging advantages, inland areas grab competition from big industriesChina's central and western regions are expected to further leverage their advantages in combined production costs to attract more foreign investment amid competition from some neighboring countries and the country's push for high-quality development, according to experts.
The line, which is scheduled to open before October 2025, is expected to provide a faster link between Zhejiang and inland provinces.
Authorities and enterprises in the booming Jiangsu Province have also joined the travel rush, heading to inland provinces for recruitment and sending buses to ferry workers back.
This is because the country's FDI surge against headwinds last year has indicated foreign investors' strong confidence in the Chinese economy, while the government's ramped-up policy efforts are expected to boost economic recovery and expand FDI inflows into key industries, inland regions and major projects, they said.
The area, established in 2010, is the first national development zone in inland China and the third in the country after Shanghai Pudong and Tianjin Binhai.
It is accelerating the construction of an inland gateway for opening-up, as well as an intelligent city, as it strives to become a leading area for high-quality development and a demonstration area for high-quality living.
Last year, the port took multiple measures to improve its transfer and rail-sea intermodal transportation efficiency and to expand the coverage of the combined port system and inland port system in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.