Last year, automobile exports exceeded 800,000 vehicles, and Taicang Port has witnessed the accelerating pace of Chinese-made products going global.
Release time:
2026-01-13
The Yangtze River Economic Belt covers 11 provinces and cities, accounting for roughly half of the country’s population and economic output. Over the past decade since the implementation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt development strategy, China has accelerated the construction of a comprehensive, multi-dimensional transportation corridor along the Yangtze River. The length of high-grade waterways in the Yangtze River system has increased from 8,000 kilometers to 11,000 kilometers, and the cargo throughput at major port hubs has grown by 71%, reaching 4.2 billion tons.
The Yangtze River Economic Belt covers 11 provinces and cities, accounting for roughly half of the country’s population and economic output. Over the past decade since the implementation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt development strategy, China has accelerated the construction of a comprehensive, multi-dimensional transportation corridor along the Yangtze River. The length of high-grade waterways in the Yangtze River system has increased from 8,000 kilometers to 11,000 kilometers, and the cargo throughput at major port hubs has grown by 71%, reaching 4.2 billion tons.
At Taicang Port in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, in recent years, as exports of new-energy vehicles have surged rapidly, the port’s export volume has also been increasing year after year. Right now, operations at the port are bustling and never-ending—let’s go together and experience the accelerating pace of “Made in China” heading overseas.
Huang Guanhua, a reporter for the CCTV News Channel: As the ship's whistle sounded, the Ro-Ro vessel "Huanghu" slowly departed from its berth at Taicang Port, escorted by a pilot boat. This marks the "Huanghu’s" maiden voyage of 2026. The ship is carrying over 2,000 new-energy vehicles of Chinese brands and is set to head toward destinations including the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Egypt.
According to the latest data from Nanjing Customs, in the just-concluded year 2025, Taicang Port’s automobile export volume exceeded 800,000 vehicles—equivalent to at least one out of every 10 cars exported nationwide last year having departed from Taicang.
As the final stop on the Yangtze River’s inland waterway, Taicang Port boasts 38 kilometers of prime shoreline and a deep-water channel exceeding 12 meters in depth. Here, vessels ranging from several-ton inland river ships to 200,000-ton ocean-going vessels can all dock. Cars produced in Chongqing, Hubei, and Anhui are loaded onto these ships and then sent downstream along the Yangtze River, where they are gathered at this port before being transferred to larger vessels for global shipment.
Keywords:
Automotive import and export trade
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