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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
LANZHOU, June 29 (Xinhua) — A train loaded with 36 containers of 980 tons of chrysotile asbestos departed from Dunhuang City in northwest China’s Gansu Province for Uzbekistan on Thursday.
This is the first special train carrying asbestos from Gansu Province to Central Asia, and a new international corridor for asbestos export opened by Dunhuang City after the launch of trains on the China-Laos Railway, the Dunhuang-Qinzhou Port-Indonesia Western Land-Sea Corridor, and the Dunhuang-Ningbo-Thailand Railway-Sea Route.
It is reported that the new special train operates under the “single document list” and “single window” scheme, and there is no need to repack containers en route. Dunhuang Airport Customs, in cooperation with several departments, provides comprehensive support in registration of qualification documents, packaging inspection, logistics support, customs declaration, etc.
In the first five months of this year, China’s total import and export volume to the five Central Asian countries rose 10.4 percent year-on-year to more than 286.4 billion yuan (over $39.98 billion), hitting a new historical high for the same period, according to data from the General Administration of Customs.
Gansu Province is a golden section of the Silk Road Economic Belt. Since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative, it has accelerated its opening up to the west and south. The province has now launched international freight train services on routes covering more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. -0-