URUMQI -- Construction has started on the multimodal transportation customs supervision center in Urumqi in Xinjiang, a key autonomous region of the Silk Road Economic Belt in Northwest China. It is expected to be completed in July of 2016.
Involving total investment of 1 billion yuan, the multimodal transportation customs supervision center is expected to promote construction of an international logistics entrepot in Urumqi, which would be equipped with a west-oriented import and export freight center and a logistics base integrating railway, highway, air, and ocean transport.