Recently, with the China Europe freight train (Xi'an Hamburg) departing from Xi'an International Port Station, the total number of China Europe freight trains operating this year has reached 10000, surpassing 10000 by 10 days compared to last year; This year, a total of 972000 TEUs of goods have been shipped, a year-on-year increase of 5%, and the comprehensive heavy container rate has reached 98.4%.

According to the person in charge of the Freight Department of China Railway Group Co., Ltd., since the beginning of this year, China Railway Group has conscientiously implemented the deployment requirements of the central government to stabilize the economy, adhered to high standards, sustainability, and benefiting people's livelihoods, actively promoted the high-quality development of China Europe freight trains, and built an all-weather, large capacity, green, low-carbon, and smooth and safe international logistics channel to maintain the stability and smoothness of the international industrial chain and supply chain The high-quality joint construction of the "the Belt and Road" provides strong support.

This year, the railway department has opened new rail sea intermodal lines from Xi'an, Chongqing and other cities to Constanta, Romania, via the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. The China Europe trains are closely connected with the China Laos railway international freight trains and the western land sea new channel trains, promoting the formation of an overseas channel network pattern of "smooth and efficient, multi-directional extension, and sea land connectivity".

At the same time, the railway department has increased the organization of return trains and promoted balanced transportation of two-way freight sources. This year, the proportion of return and outbound trains has reached 88%; Steadily promote the implementation of the expansion and reconstruction projects of Alataw Pass, Khorgos, Manzhouli, Erlian and other ports and rear channels, and actively coordinate with overseas railways to synchronously improve the infrastructure capacity, realizing the steady improvement of domestic and overseas channel capacity. Since the beginning of this year, the daily average transportation volume of the West, Central, and East routes of the China Europe freight train has increased by 20.7%, 15.2%, and 41.3% respectively compared to 2020 before the expansion and renovation.

At present, the China Europe freight train has laid out 82 operating routes, reaching 200 cities in 24 countries in Europe, gradually "connecting points into a line" and "weaving into a network". The transportation service network covers the entire Europe, and the transported goods cover 53 categories, including clothing, shoes and hats, cars and accessories, grain, wood, and more than 50000 categories.