On the evening of June 19, 2024 local time, Premier Li Qiang of the State Council and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim attended a reception to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia and the "China-Malaysia Friendship Year" in Kuala Lumpur.
Beibu Gulf Port Group was not only deeply involved in the production of this gift documentary, but the title of "Tie the Knot Lotus Li" originated from the "Tie the Knot Lotus Li" Xiaoxing pottery teapot customized by Beigang, which was born from the "Mushan Love" durian business team of Beigang Logistics under Beibu Gulf Port Group, and had a creative collision in a cultural and creative product customization.
When the Guangxi special fruit lychee and Malaysia's special durian have intersection, Lianli, Lianli, Lianli and Lianli ...... The warm kiln luster of the clay pot contains a sense of inclusiveness, interaction and friendship, which precipitates the deep meaning of win-win cooperation between China and Malaysia and the friendship between the two countries over the years.
From wish to reality
Teo Wei Shun, a Malaysian Chinese in the documentary, is the secretary general of the Malaysian Pahang Agriculture and Ecotourism Association. Through his cooperation with Beigang Logistics Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Beibu Gulf Port Group, the first Malaysian Musang King durian reefer container finally arrived at Beibu Gulf Port on May 8, 2023, and so far, more than 100 tons of Malaysian durian and its derivative products have been transported by Beigang Logistics into the Guangxi market.
For Zhang Weishun, selling Malaysian Musang King durian to his hometown of Guangxi was a wish of his grandfather's generation, and in his hands, this wish has become a reality.
From Pahang to Guangxi
In order to better serve the Malaysian Musang King durian business, Beigang Logistics has accelerated the construction and service of the whole logistics system, and through its own supply chain system and the hub system of the new international land-sea channel, the goods from ASEAN to the western region through the Beibu Gulf Port have basic logistics and transportation conditions.
The route from Kuantan Port to the Chinese market is the "Kuantan Port - Beibu Gulf Port - Sichuan and Chongqing of China" multimodal transport route. On April 7, 2023, the route was opened when Liu Ning, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Autonomous Region, visited Kuantan, Malaysia.
The Kuantan Port – Beibu Gulf Port – Sichuan and Chongqing (China) multimodal transport route runs once a week, taking only seven days at most to take Malaysia's Musang King durian to Beibu Gulf Port and then travel to the central and western regions of China by land. Since its opening, the route has been operating smoothly, in addition to transporting durian, there are also aluminum ingots, transformers, tin concentrate, yeast and other goods.
In this way, the route took Musang King durian from Pahang, Malaysia to Guangxi, China, and entered many cities in Chongqing, Shanxi and other places.
From consensus to win-win
The Beibu Gulf Port Group's own logistics supply chain system and the hub system of the new international land-sea trade channel made Zhang Weishun full of confidence in the cooperation between the two sides, but it was at the moment when he stepped into the Qinzhou automated container terminal of the Beibu Gulf Port that he stepped into the Beibu Gulf Port Qinzhou Automated Container Terminal.
The No. 7 and No. 8 berths of Qinzhou Automated Container Terminal were officially put into operation in June 2022, with the world's first U-shaped process layout, and are the first sea-rail intermodal automated container terminals in China. Zhang Weishun saw that in the entire wharf and yard, only the external container truck and IGV intelligent guided transport vehicle were busy operating, and the rear of the yard was adjacent to the railway center station, which was directly connected to the railway. The staff only needs to be in the remote control center 1 km away from the shoreline of the terminal to accurately control the situation of container loading and unloading operations. In the future, the goods can also be operated efficiently through the terminal automation equipment, so as to realize the seamless connection of sea-rail intermodal transportation "getting off the ship and getting on the ship", and getting off the ship and getting on the car...... After learning about these situations, he was shocked and finally made up his mind to start working together.
From hitting it off to reaching a consensus to achieving win-win cooperation. This cooperation is a two-way street, and it is also a tie-in and win-win situation.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia, and also happens to be the 10th anniversary of the establishment of Beigang Logistics Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Beibu Gulf Port Group. Su Ting, general manager of Beigang Logistics, plans to customize a cultural and creative product with special significance this year, hoping to not only commemorate the cooperation between the two enterprises, but also contain the deep meaning of the cooperation between the two countries - "Lianli Teapot" came into being.
A teapot needs to go through the kiln transformation and tempering of the furnace, a friendship needs to go through the tempering of time, and the baptism of time and wind and rain has created the "lotus li" love between China and Malaysia.
The story of Lianli, Lianli, and Lianli is to be continued.