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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) — The 110,000th China-Europe train passed through the Erenhot port on China’s border with Mongolia on Thursday morning, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
The train departed from Qingdao City in East China’s Shandong Province on Tuesday and arrived in Ereenhot in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 10:10 p.m. on Wednesday, passing through Jinan, Beijing, Ulan Qab and other cities.
At the Erenhot checkpoint, the train had its orange-red HXN3B diesel locomotive replaced, which is specially designed for transportation on the section between the Erenhot checkpoint and Zamyn-Uud.
The train, loaded with 55 containers of household appliances worth nearly 20 million yuan (about $2.78 million), including LCD monitors and refrigerators, will arrive in Moscow in 15 days.
Ereenhot is the largest land border crossing between China and Mongolia. To date, a total of 18,000 China-Europe trains have passed through it.
Currently, regular railway service via Ereenhot connects more than 60 Chinese cities and 70 cities and stations in more than 10 countries around the world.
According to Zhang Jianwei, deputy head of the customs office at the port, China mainly supplies high-value-added products to the international market through Ereenhot, including automobiles and auto parts, equipment and electronics. -0-