5-Day Xi'an Enterprise Visits: LONGi, BYD & the Rail Port

Morning — Arrival and Transfer
Your guide and driver greet you at Xi'an Xianyang International Airport and transfer you by private vehicle to your hotel. The morning is kept light so you can recover from the overnight flight.

Afternoon — Welcome Briefing
A short briefing at the hotel sets the context for the days ahead: how Xi'an moved from the eastern terminus of the Silk Road to a modern industrial and logistics hub, and what the enterprise visits on this programme will show you.

Evening — Welcome Dinner
A welcome dinner introduces the group and the local hosts. Shaanxi cooking is the vehicle: cold noodles, lamb, and the wheat-based dishes that define the Guanzhong plain.

Meals
Breakfast, Dinner included.

Morning - LONGi and the shape of the industry
LONGi is headquartered in Xi'an and is the largest producer of monocrystalline silicon wafers in the world, the substrate every mainstream solar panel is built on. The company was founded in 2000 and has ranked first globally in cumulative wafer shipments for ten consecutive years. A host from the company opens the day with a briefing on where the value in a solar module actually sits, how wafer, cell and module pricing is set, and why the industry has spent the last three years in a hard price cycle driven by capacity running ahead of installation demand.

The briefing is deliberately commercial rather than technical. For a buyer, a distributor or an EPC contractor, the questions that decide a contract are capacity and delivery reliability, technology roadmap, certification for the destination market, and whether the supplier can hold a price through a long-dated order. Ask them directly in the room rather than through a broker.

Midday - technology and the line
The company's technology position is the part of the visit that is hardest to read from a datasheet. LONGi holds the world record for silicon solar cell efficiency at 27.3 percent for a crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem cell, and had reached mass-produced module efficiencies of 24.8 percent on back-contact technology by December 2025. Where access allows, your host walks you through a demonstration or production area and explains the shift from TOPCon architectures towards back-contact and tandem, and what that means for a module bought today and installed next year.

If a site visit is not possible on your dates, the technology session is delivered at the company's exhibition and conference facility, and the substitution is confirmed in writing before arrival.

Afternoon - the supply chain round table
The afternoon widens out from one company to the chain around it. LONGi anchors a photovoltaic cluster in Xi'an and the surrounding province, with wafer, cell, module, glass, silver paste, inverter and mounting suppliers feeding the same base, and the company leads a regional photovoltaic industry alliance that pulls in hundreds of upstream and downstream firms across Shaanxi and neighbouring provinces. Your host sets out how that cluster works in practice: which stages a buyer can source locally, what lead times look like, and which parts of the chain remain concentrated elsewhere.

The session is structured around your own procurement position, so bring your specification, your target market and your volume. For European and North American buyers we cover certification and the compliance documentation your customs authority will want, and for buyers in the Gulf and Southeast Asia we cover the delivery routes and the grid-scale project cycle. LONGi's products reach more than 150 countries and regions, and the company runs manufacturing outside China, which matters if your market applies local-content rules.

Evening - business dinner
Dinner is Shaanxi, at a table rather than a buffet, with the introductions and follow-up meetings your delegation asks for arranged in advance where we can. Most delegations use the evening to narrow a shortlist rather than to open one.

Business note
Company visits are subject to host calendars and are confirmed in writing before arrival. Where a named facility cannot receive a foreign delegation on your dates, an equivalent company in the same segment is named as a substitute in advance. Full names, nationalities and passport numbers for all delegates are required at least fourteen days ahead so that visitor clearance can be processed. Nothing in this day constitutes a supply agreement; all commercial terms are negotiated directly between you and the supplier.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation
Xi'an High-Tech Zone or city centre.

Morning — Xi'an High-Tech Zone
Visit Xi'an High-Tech Zone for an executive briefing on China's technology ecosystem: semiconductors, artificial intelligence, software and the specific advantages an inland hub can offer.

Afternoon — BYD New Energy Vehicle Xi'an Base
Tour the BYD new energy vehicle production base in Xi'an: automated body lines, battery pack assembly and the vertical integration that has made the company the largest EV maker in the world by volume.

Evening — Dinner with Xi'an Tech Entrepreneurs
Business dinner with Xi'an technology entrepreneurs, with time to explore joint venture and supply chain questions directly.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included.

Morning - the port and the corridor
Xi'an International Port is the largest rail logistics base in China and holds the country's first three-track, six-line railway container centre station. It is also where the China-Europe Railway Express in Xi'an starts, and the numbers explain why the corridor has become a genuine alternative to sea freight for the right cargo: in 2025 the Xi'an service ran 6,037 trains, up 21.1 percent on the year, carried 6.96 million tonnes of freight, up 23.7 percent, and dispatched 598,000 TEU, up 14.1 percent, with the core metrics again leading the country.

A host from the port side opens the day with the geography of the network. The main line runs to Central Asia and on into Europe, with 1,291 trains to Central Asia in 2025, up 60.6 percent, and scheduled timetable services to Duisburg, Prague and Budapest that run to a fixed timetable rather than a booked slot. The trans-Caspian route, which crosses the Caspian and Black Seas by ship, holds transit times at around eleven days and accounts for roughly half of China's total on that corridor.

Midday - operations, customs and the bonded zone
Where access allows, you walk the container handling area and the customs and inspection facilities with your host, and see how a consignment is booked, consolidated, inspected and released. The operational detail is the point of the visit: what documentation has to be right before a container is accepted, how release is handled for a foreign buyer, and how the port has cut its own processing times - the digital port system links customs, railway and overseas partner data, and freight clearance has been made 24-hour and fully traceable.

The bonded and special-category facilities matter for specific trades: an expanded designated supervision site for imported grain, dedicated cold-chain services, and a cross-border e-commerce operation. If your goods need any of those, say so at booking and the visit is built around the right terminal rather than the general one.

Afternoon - cross-border logistics round table
The afternoon turns the tour into a commercial session. Rail against sea and air is an arithmetic question rather than a slogan: what freight class suits a container train, what the rate and transit comparison looks like against a sailing from Shanghai or Ningbo, where rail wins on capital tied up in transit, and where it does not. Your host covers liability and insurance, Incoterms for rail, and what happens when a consignment is delayed at a border.

The corridor has also become a two-way route. The port has built a matching terminal in Kazakhstan and describes the relationship as hub to hub, with the Xi'an end handling Kazakh cargo in the other direction, and companies from Russia, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan have formed joint ventures or opened offices here. For a delegation looking at Central Asian or European distribution, that is the part of the network worth understanding before committing to a route.

Evening - at your leisure
The evening is free, or we can arrange a Shaanxi business dinner with the follow-up meetings your delegation wants. Say which at booking.

Business note
Port, terminal and customs visits are subject to operator calendars and security clearance and are confirmed in writing before arrival. Where a named facility cannot receive a foreign delegation on your dates, an equivalent facility in the same function is named as a substitute in advance. Full names, nationalities and passport numbers for all delegates are required at least fourteen days ahead. Freight contracts are placed in your own name, so you keep control of the relationship and the liability.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation
Xi'an city centre.

Morning — Follow-ups, or the Terracotta Army
Nothing is scheduled that cannot be moved. Groups that have outstanding questions use the morning for return meetings or a second look at a plant; groups that are finished with business use it for the Terracotta Army Museum, where more than eight thousand life-sized figures were buried to guard the tomb of the First Emperor and were rediscovered in 1974. The two can be combined if the schedule is tight, and your guide will hold the timings to whatever the afternoon flight or train requires.

Afternoon — Departure
Transfer by private vehicle to Xi'an Xianyang International Airport for the flight home, or to Xi'an North Railway Station for the high-speed service to Beijing, Chengdu, Zhengzhou or Luoyang. Your guide assists with luggage and check-in. Any follow-up documentation agreed during the programme is handed over before departure.

Meals
Breakfast and lunch included.