Zhejiang Province, a major export base in east China, has seen 1,287 freight trains depart from its ports for Europe and Central Asia as of Saturday, marking a year-on-year increase of 12 percent, official data showed.
A freight train carrying goods such as new energy equipment and electrical components departed from the province's Jinhua South Station on Saturday. With this departure, Zhejiang officially saw outbound cargo train trips match the total number of 2024.
China-Europe freight trains have made nearly 120,000 trips to date, according to figures released at the second China-Europe Railway Express Cooperation Forum held Tuesday in Xi'an, provincial capital of northwest China's Shaanxi.
According to China State Railway Group Co., the trains have transported nearly 12 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of goods and now serve 232 cities in 26 European countries, as well as more than 100 cities in 11 Asian countries.
As a flagship project and a landmark brand of the Belt and Road Initiative, China-Europe freight trains have built a comprehensive logistics network across Eurasia. The value of goods transported by China-Europe freight trains reached 426.4 billion U.S. dollars by the end of 2024. From 2013 to 2024, the value grew by about 33 times, with the trains' share in China-Europe trade rising from 0.4 percent to 8.5 percent, according to a report released at the forum.