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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhua) — A total of 678 China-Europe freight trains passed through Manzhouli Port on their way back in the first quarter of this year, the press service of the people’s government of the city of the same name in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reported.
The aforementioned trains delivered 70,750 standard containers (twenty-foot equivalent, TEU) of goods to the country.
Thus, both indicators grew by 7.1 and 5.3 percent, respectively, year-on-year, setting new records.
The Manzhouli checkpoint is located on the border between China and Russia’s Zabaikalsky Krai. From January to March of this year, it ranked first among the country’s railway checkpoints in terms of the volume of cargo transported into the country.
Currently, the return freight trains of the China-Europe freight transport link Manzhouli with more than 60 cities in the country, including Harbin, Shenyang, Xi’an, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Changsha and Chengdu. The range of goods transported to China through the checkpoint includes daily necessities, equipment, metals, agricultural products, timber, etc. -0-