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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
URUMQI, June 16 (Xinhua) — Located in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and close to the border with Kazakhstan, Horgos Port is the country’s first-class land port with the longest history and the largest total shipping volume in the western region.
In recent years, it has become an important window for exchanges and cooperation between the two countries.
According to data as of June 13, since the beginning of 2025, the total volume of passenger traffic through the Khorgos checkpoint and the number of vehicles that have passed customs and border checks in both directions at this border crossing amounted to 620 thousand person-times and 223 thousand units, respectively, which is 35.3 percent and 40.6 percent more in annual terms for both indicators.
As of June 12 this year, a total of 4,476 China-Europe/China-Central Asia freight trains have passed through the Khorgos checkpoint since the beginning of 2025, up 26.7 percent year-on-year, according to data from the checkpoint administration.
Let us recall that, as of now, more than 80 international railway freight routes pass through Khorgos, connecting 18 countries.
On June 7, the first international China-Central Asia tourist train returned to Xi’an. The train with more than 200 passengers departed from Xi’an to Almaty, Kazakhstan on May 29. It left China through the Khorgos railway checkpoint.
Let us recall that in May 2023, China and Kazakhstan signed an intergovernmental agreement on mutual exemption from visa requirements, which officially entered into force in November of the same year. 2024 was the Year of Kazakhstan Tourism in China, and 2025 has been declared the Year of China Tourism in Kazakhstan.
According to Li Jiang, deputy head of Horgos Customs, the launch of the above-mentioned international tourist train has laid a new foundation for deepening connectivity and promoting people-to-people exchanges between China and Central Asian countries.
In addition, according to the results of the first five months of 2025, the flow of visitors to the China-Kazakhstan International Center for Boundary Cooperation (ICBC) “Khorgos” increased by 87.2 percent year-on-year to 3.893 million person-times.
At present, there are 3 companies engaged in cross-border e-commerce and more than 20 streaming studios operating in Khorgos ICBC. To date, the total turnover through streaming in Khorgos ICBC has exceeded 100 million yuan.
Khorgos checkpoint continues to upgrade infrastructure, optimize inspection procedures, and improve clearance efficiency to better serve the cross-border trade and humanitarian exchanges between China and Kazakhstan. -0-