This morning, as the X8059 China-Europe freight train bound for Moscow, Russia, departed from Shenyang Puhe Station, the cumulative number of China-Europe freight trains exceeded 140,000, and the value of goods sent exceeded 560 billion US dollars.

The 140,000th China-Europe freight train X8059 carries household appliances, auto parts and other goods. It departs from Shenyang Puhe Station and heads north, passing through Manzhouli Port and is expected to arrive in Moscow in about 9 days. This is also the 280th China-Europe freight train departing from the Shenyang Assembly Center this year.

Including the Shenyang assembly center, 14 China-Europe train assembly centers have been built across the country.The three major corridors of west, middle and east are dynamically optimized lines. There are 96 planned lines of China-Europe freight trains with a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, connecting 132 domestic cities, 237 cities in 26 European countries and more than 100 cities in 12 Asian countries. The service scope basically covers the entire Asia and Europe.

Since this year, China Railway Group has worked closely with countries along the route to continuously improve the operational efficiency of China-Europe trains.In May, the monthly volume of China-Europe freight trains reached a record high; the six major ports handled an average of 51.2 trains per day, a year-on-year increase of 12.8%; the minimum customs clearance time at the port was reduced to less than 30 minutes; the South Corridor trains were operated on a regular basis, with 746 trains operating from January to September, a year-on-year increase of 125%.

22 full-timetable China-Europe freight trains are operated steadily every week between 9 cities in China and 6 cities in Europe, accurately matching the cross-border transportation needs of high-end manufacturing industries.There are more than 100 international trains departing from Beijing, and the proportion of "Beijing smart-made" products such as integrated circuits, medical equipment, intelligent manufacturing and equipment has increased from 30% in the initial stage to more than 90%, providing a stable cross-border logistics option for the capital's export of high value-added foreign trade products.

The National Development and Reform Commission stated that the next step will be to continue to strengthen the brand building of China-Europe trains, continuously improve the level of internationalization and marketization, consolidate and improve the development resilience of China-Europe trains, and promote the development of China-Europe trains in the direction of higher quality, better efficiency, and safer safety.

(CCTV reporter Zheng Liankai)