From September 23 to 25, the 2025 Eurasian Economic Forum, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, will be opened in Xi'an. The theme of this forum is "Aggregating new momentum in Eurasia to build a new pattern of sustainable development" and attracts political and business guests, experts, scholars, and young representatives from Eurasia countries. Through many special meetings, results signing and cooperation and exchanges, we inject new vitality into regional coordinated development, and use culture as a link to make mutual learning of civilizations a deep driving force for Eurasian cooperation.

The park draws a "long-term road": anchoring a new direction of Eurasian cooperation

On September 23, the comprehensive park development meeting for the core activities of the forum was held. "As the result of the Eurasian Economic Forum's entity, the park has laid a solid foundation for years of development, achieving a leap from a 'platform carrier' to an 'open benchmark'." Yin Wenquan, a researcher at the Institute of Economic System and Management of the National Development and Reform Commission, reviewed the development achievements and glorious history of the Eurasian Economic Forum's comprehensive park in his speech.

In recent years, the central government and provinces and cities have jointly built comprehensive parks, laying a solid foundation for development with four major platforms, mainly exhibitions, cultural and sports, channel hubs, foreign affairs, economic and trade, and scientific and technological innovation and intelligent manufacturing. While "Olympic Sports Concert Ancient City Culture" has become the new IP of Xi'an's cultural tourism, the China-Europe Express (Xi'an) covers Eurasia, with a total of more than 30,000 trains running, and the key indicators are ranked first in the country for seven consecutive years; the Xi'an Consulate District, the China-Central Asia Mechanism Secretariat has a permanent park, and the visa centers of 28 countries are conveniently cleared; industrial clusters such as Konka Intelligence and Knoll track are introduced to build an important carrier area for the Eurasian Creative Design Park Design Capital.

In addition, Yin Hot Spring proposed to implement the "three-step" strategy at the meeting: strengthen the brand of China-Europe freight trains in the first 2-3 years, strengthen international economic and trade functions, and cultivate new quality productivity momentum; by the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan, a modern economic system will be fully built to serve the "Belt and Road" and the China-Europe freight train economic and cultural exchanges; by 2035, the "four major positionings" will be realized - the Eurasian regional cooperation zone with global influence, the "Belt and Road" economic and trade and cultural exchange demonstration highland, an important group of the China-Europe freight train economic and trade circle, and a nationally renowned urban internationalization new area will become "a frontier position for opening up to the west and the first platform for Eurasian cooperation", further improve the scope, level and international influence of international exchanges, and work together to write a new chapter of regional prosperity.

The results are "real": good project signing on new platforms

During the forum, many "hard results" appeared one after another, giving Eurasian cooperation a real way. Chen Changzhi, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress, pointed out the key to the development of the park: to promote the high-quality development of the Eurasian Economic Forum comprehensive park, we must adhere to innovation-driven, deepen connectivity and practice the concept of green, and make new and greater contributions to promoting the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" in depth and practicality and promoting regional prosperity and development.

At the comprehensive park development conference, the launch of the "Tong Silk Road" cross-border trade digital comprehensive service platform and the unveiling ceremony of the "Qinling Workshop" Vocational Education Innovation Research Center was held, and 15 cooperation projects have been signed.

Among them, the "Tong Silk Road" cross-border trade digital comprehensive service platform is an online service platform with "full-link digital service for foreign trade" as the core under the guidance of the Shaanxi Branch of the People's Bank of China, and is built and operated by Xi'an Financial Holdings Co., Ltd. Through the "online supply chain logistics and finance integration", the platform opens up the inland and the "Belt and Road" to jointly build national trade channels.

The "Qinling Workshop" is a key task of Shaanxi-related achievements at the first China-Central Asia Summit. It is jointly promoted by Shaanxi Vocational and Technical College, the board of directors of the "Belt and Road" Vocational Education Alliance, Shaanxi Vocational and Technical College, the Xi'an International Port Management Committee, and the Qinchuangyuan Industrial Technology Innovation Research Institute. It will build the China-Central Asia Vocational Education Science and Technology Innovation Research Center and two vocational education sub-center Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to further promote the cultivation of skilled talents and scientific and technological cultural exchanges.

The implementation of these projects will inject new development vitality into the Eurasian Economic Forum comprehensive park and promote the implementation of "technology leadership and innovation collaboration".

Logistics Rule of Law "Double Insurance": Let cooperation go steadily and far

At the China Land Port and Logistics Hub Development Conference on September 23, Xi'an, as the starting point of the ancient Silk Road, has been promoting the construction of land ports with high quality with the China-Europe Express as a driving force in recent years. Currently, 18 international trunk lines and 26 domestic assembly lines are stably launched. In addition, China's Xi'an Kazakhstan Terminal has been completed and put into use, realizing the upgrade of the "hub-to-hub" international logistics. Through the smart logistics project, the release of goods is optimized from manual orders to automatic delivery of 24/7, and the overall cost is reduced by more than 15%.

The meeting released the Lugang Cloud Platform, which will provide four core interfaces, connecting the Lugang stations, logistics and transportation companies, trade and cargo owner companies, and supervision and service departments, to realize the smart interconnection and collaborative linkage of core nodes in the mainland port ecosystem. At present, Xi'an has built the largest China-Europe freight train assembly center in the country, with a container throughput of 5.4 million TEUs and a capacity of 66 million tons.

According to Sawut, deputy secretary-general of the International Association for International Trans-Caspian International Transportation Routes, with the active coordination of the participants in the trans-Caspian Corridor and the support of China's logistics platform, the number of container trains transiting through the trans-Caspian Corridor has increased significantly, from only 11 in 2023 to 259 in 2024.

The "Belt and Road" Commercial Legal Service Branch held at the same time also built a high-end platform for legal exchanges and cooperation for countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" countries. The conference promoted the construction results of Xi'an's "Belt and Road" International Commercial Legal Service Demonstration Zone. The demonstration zone brings together the resources of four national legal platforms, including public security, procuratorate, judicial and judicial departments, and introduces legal service branches in professional subdivisions such as intellectual property rights and financial mediation in a timely manner, and the service scope radiates to the countries and regions of the "Belt and Road" together.

The five international cooperation agreements signed at the meeting involve legal service institutions and universities between China and Italy, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan and other countries. The cooperation covers many fields such as cooperation between bar associations, academic exchanges, arbitration and mediation, and provides institutionalized guarantees for cross-border legal services. All parties have proposed to take this branch as an opportunity to deepen mutual learning and mutual learning and provide solid legal guarantees for jointly building the "Belt and Road".

Youth "travel" to find business opportunities: small commodities can also leverage large markets

On September 23, the 2025 Eurasian Youth Elite Dialogue will be held in a hot spot. Young elites and experts and scholars from many Eurasia exchanged on issues such as artificial intelligence and digital economy. Professor Chai Jian of Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology and President of Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications Su Jinqi made keynote speeches respectively, emphasizing the role of the digital economy in promoting youth employment and regional development.

At the meeting, the China-Kazakhstan dairy supply chain economic and trade cooperation project, the Xixian New District International Science and Technology Exchange and Cooperation Promotion Association and the Uzbekistan "" Co., Ltd. strategic cooperation agreement were officially signed, and the Eurasian Youth Service Group (Uzbekistan Station Youth Service Station) was unveiled simultaneously. This service station will become an important fulcrum for youth connectivity, further promoting collaborative innovation and cultural mutual learning among Eurasian youth in the digital age.

The international small commodity trade matching that afternoon will be more down-to-earth. As one of the series of economic and trade exchange activities of the SCO Nationals in the 2025 Eurasian Economic Forum, this trade matching meeting uses "small commodities" as a link to promote the two-way trip of "Made in China" and the SCO countries, so that "small and beautiful" commodities become a bridge for people's hearts and hearts, and promote the realization that "buy and sell the world" can be "on the doorstep".

A relevant person in charge of Xincheng District, Xi'an City said that the local area has integrated more than 60 commercial and foreign trade enterprises, established a small commodity trade association, subdivided more than 1,500 small commodity categories, and created the Kangfu Road small commodity international trade center. At present, the foreign trade innovation industrial park within its jurisdiction has been completed, and the small commodity exhibition and sales center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan has also been established. In addition, we guide merchants to open stores and brand hotels overseas, successfully opening up sales channels in many countries in Central and Asia, and truly "expanding large overseas markets with small commodities."

Cultural "soft bond": Make Eurasian friendship deeper

This forum is not only "talking about business", but also builds a "bridge of the heart" with culture. During the forum, the on-site performance of "Borderless Chang'an" became a "cultural star" - when the lights were on and Qin's voice opened, the heroic spirit that penetrated people's hearts came to the face with the vigorous power of thousands of years; behind the shadow puppet screen, the light and shadow flowed, delicately interpreting the fireworks of Chang'an city. The most classic intangible cultural heritage in Shaanxi has broken the boundaries of form on the theatrical stage and burst out with new vitality, allowing guests from all over the world to not only see the wonderfulness of Chinese culture, but also "touch" the profound heritage contained in it.

The solo concert of the Russian pianist Yuliana Afftierva's piano solo concert has also attracted countless fans. Chopin's tenderness and Shostakovic's depth flow out through her fingertips. Without verbal communication, music connects the emotions between the East and the West.

In the practice of cross-border cultural exchanges, traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment centers have successively entered the community in Kazakhstan, allowing local people to feel the magic of traditional Chinese medicine; the "Qinling Workshop" has built a bridge for common skills and culture. While learning and expanding knowledge, everyone shares their own country's folk stories, and quietly narrows the distance between their hearts in technical exchanges. Even the daily small commodity trade has become a link for cultural transmission. Every commodity, from producers to consumers, is like a "cultural messenger", quietly bringing the life aesthetics and characteristic styles of different countries to each other.

Looking back at history, it is like ancient Chang'an was once the "confluence point" of the Silk Road civilization, where diverse civilizations collide and merge. Today, Xi'an is taking over the baton of history. With the important platform of the Eurasian Economic Forum, culture becomes the "soft adhesive" of Eurasian cooperation. Economic and trade cooperation makes everyone "get closer", and cultural exchanges make everyone "heart closer". Only this "hard cooperation" and "soft connection" can go more steadily and farther on the thousand-year Silk Road.

(China Daily Shaanxi News Station Qin Feng | Zhang Haishan)