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Xinjiang transport hub hauls path to success By XING WEN | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-02-23 09:15 Share CLOSE Workers transfer containers from an inbound train to a domestic train at the Alashankou Port, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in September. CAI ZENGLE/FOR CHINA DAILY After just one year of cross-border e-commerce exports, Alashankou Port in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is already ranked the fourth busiest in China for such operations. More than 50 million e-commerce packages destined for Europe passed through the p...

Cross-border e-commerce gains traction aboard China-Europe freight trains Residents of Chengdu, a city in southwest China known as a major habitat for giant pandas, are able to feast their eyes on products from nearly 40 countries during the Spring Festival holiday. Located in northeast Chengdu, the Chengdu International Railway Port has set up a cluster of pavilions to showcase and sell choice overseas products, ranging from French wines to German beers and Italian coffee. Most of the goods were imported via the China-Europe freight trains, a rail connectivity project initiated by China to b...

SOURCE / ECONOMY By Xinhua Published: Feb 17, 2021 08:52 AM A staff worker of a pavilion for Greek goods shows a Greek wine transported by the China-Europe freight train at Chengdu International Railway Port in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Kun) Residents of Chengdu, a city in southwest China known as a major habitat for giant pandas, are able to feast their eyes on products from nearly 40 countries during the Spring Festival holiday. Located in northeast Chengdu, the Chengdu International Railway Port has set up a cluster of pavilions...

2021-02-17 10:11 　 By: Xinhua 　 -- In 2020, a record 12,406 China-Europe freight train journeys were made, up 50 percent from 2019. The number hit 1,165 in January, up 66 percent year on year. -- It is reported that the EU statistics agency Eurostat has said China last year overtook the United States as the EU's biggest trade partner, with the bilateral trade totaling around 586 billion euros (about 711 billion U.S. dollars). -- China rolled out supportive policies early in 2020 to leverage the stable, flexible land transport service to boost ...