Henan Super Grand Electronic Technology Co. was headquartered in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen for years.

In 2016, it relocated to Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, with support from the advanced transport system – the "Air Silk Road."

Now, a total of 400,000 mobile phones are produced in Zhengzhou on a monthly basis and transported out of China by the ton.

"Our customers give high priority to the timeliness of cargo delivery," said Feng Min, an employee of General Electronic Technology. "The road, to a large extent, has made it an easier task to send phones to our customers – in merely two to three days."

Zhengzhou was a small county seat in the 1940s. It later became the capital of Henan Province, helped by its location along the Beijing-Guangzhou railway line. Now, it doubles as a transport hub. It is currently implementing a three-dimensional traffic system and a modern logistics system in a bid to become a link to all regions of the country and obtain more cross-border trade orders.

The city plans to use its strategic location to build a stronger regional logistics center. To accomplish this, the city launched the Zhengzhou-Germany cargo train service in 2013. Over the past six years, more than 938,000 tons of cargo worth more than 9 billion U.S. dollars have been transported via the route.

"In 2013, the trains made one round trip every week. Now they make eight," said Shi Fenghua, vice manager of the Zhengzhou Railway Container Terminal.

In 2014, the new Air Silk Road over Zhengzhou unlocked more potential trade with Europe.

Now, cargo planes transport food, electronics and more from Zhengzhou to Luxembourg on 16 weekly flights. The products then enter local markets at favorable prices. They are also delivered to other provinces based on Zhengzhou's logistics advantages.

Jack Yuan, vice president of the Luxembourg Project Management Office of Henan Civil Aviation said the system has the potential to become a "regional industrial structure."

"By building an air logistics ecosystem and developing a supply chain finance system, we can create a hub economy and lure more resources to Zhengzhou, such as high-end manufacturing, service industry and finance, and insurance companies. In this way we can upgrade our regional industrial structure," he said.

Henan Province used to rely largely on its agriculture. Now, developing transportation and logistics systems in Zhengzhou have allowed it to integrate into the world economy and become a part of larger industrial chains. This, in turn, has paved the way for its future development.