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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 10 (with permission from the reporter) Latest figures show that in August, China-Europe express trains achieved balanced growth in the number of round trips and the number of dispatches, with an interannual increase of more than 60%. In response, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on the 10th that since this year, the new corona pneumonia epidemic has swept the world and international transportation has been severely affected. The China-Europe express train has triggered the “lightning bolt” of land transport and has become a “passage of life” and a “link of destiny” for countries to fight the epidemic together.
Zhao Lijian told a regular press conference that day that in August this year, the China-Europe freight train continued to maintain a strong growth trend, with a total of 1,247 trains and 110,000 TEU of goods shipped, an increase of 62 % and 66%, respectively, year-on-year, and an integral rate of heavy containers of 98.5%. Create a new record.
He said that during the epidemic period, the characteristics of mutually beneficial cooperation, mutual benefit and mutual benefit between China and Europe express trains further showed the characteristics of “One Belt One Road” through consultation, joint construction and exchange. The China-Europe Railway Express not only continuously delivers epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic materials and production and daily necessities that are in short supply in the international community, but also ships a large number of high-quality foreign products to China. “This will help promote the resumption of work and production and the rapid economic restart of countries along the railway line, will provide a strong impetus for the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain, and will also bring new opportunities for the recovery and development of the global economy “.
Zhao Lijian said that the contrary growth of the China-Europe railway expresses once again that economic globalization is an irreversible trend of the times. The economies of all countries are interdependent and the integration of interests has never been seen before. China is willing to work with the European side to further improve the capacity and efficiency of China-Europe freight trains, expand Sino-European logistics cooperation and countries along the route, and make further contributions to deepening anti-epidemic cooperation and high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road”.
