Photo taken on Jan. 8, 2021 shows freight trains at Erenhot Port in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Photo by Guo Pengjie/Xinhua)
BEIJING, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, has operated more than 9,000 China-Europe freight trains since the launch of the service in 2013, according to local customs.
As a key node city in the construction of Belt and Road Initiative and China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, as well as an important channel for domestic goods to be exported to Mongolia, Russia and Europe, Erenhot now boasts 57 China-Europe freight-train routes, connecting more than 50 cities in 22 provinces at home and 44 sites and cities in 9 countries abroad.
As of March 14, the Erenhot port has seen a total of 575 inbound and outbound China-Europe freight trains this year, a year-on-year increase of 20.29 percent. Specifically, the number of inbound trains totaled 265, up 28.02 percent, while the number of outbound trains reached 310, a rise of 14.39 percent.
With the rapid development of China-Europe freight trains, the number of China-Europe freight trains entering and exiting through Erenhot port is expected to exceed 10,000 ones this year, said relevant person in charge of local customs.
(Edited by Bao Nuomin with Xinhua Silk Road, baonuomin@xinhua.org)
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