[4] The business areas of the company include storage and terminal services and trucking and marine transportation.

The operation centers are in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Dongguan in Guangdong, and in Changsha, Hunan.

[6] The international railway freight network is an implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Among the China-Europe express freight train routes is a link between Shenzhen and Duisburg, which travels through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Poland.

[8][9] The company was incorporated in 2002 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2003 as a vehicle for the core business, assets and staff of the state-owned China National Foreign Trade Transportation (Group) Corporation.