Xi'an International Trade & Logistics Park
{{Short description|Industrial park in Xi'an, China}}
Xi'an International Trade & Logistics Park (XITLP; {{zh|s=西安国际港务区}}) is an industrial park located in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, serving as free trade zone dry port.{{cite web|title=Largest Inland Port Established in Xi'an|url=http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/ctenglish/se/txt/2010-10/14/content_303615.htm|access-date=9 November 2010|author=ZHONG ZHI|date=2010-10-14}}{{cite web|title=Xi'an Builds Regional Transportation Hub |url=http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/10/25/2001s601026.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130116013641/http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/10/25/2001s601026.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 16, 2013|access-date=9 November 2010|author=Qin Mei|date=2010-10-25}}
History
The park was founded in 2008 to create a transport hub in the inland water areas surrounding Xi'an. The park's development was explicitly conceived to be a model of logistics-based urbanization.{{Cite book |last1=Curtis |first1=Simon |title=The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China's Search for a New International Order |last2=Klaus |first2=Ian |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300266900 |location=New Haven and London |publication-date=2024 |doi=10.2307/jj.11589102 |jstor=jj.11589102}}{{Rp|page=119-120}} The park is approximately a 35 square mile area in northeast Xi'an.{{Rp|page=120}}
The park brings together a dry port and rail container center.{{Rp|page=119}} The Longhai Railway is located in the Xi'an International Trade & Logistics Park. It is the most busiest railway heading to China's Central plains.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100121193358/http://www.itl.gov.cn/ Xi'an International Trade & Logistics Park (ITL)]
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Category:Industrial parks in China