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The remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in Northwest China opened a charter train route to shorten the time for cotton yarn to reach the textile industrial base in eastern Zhejiang Province, which is more than 5,000 km away. The first train loaded with 1,440 tonnes of yarn left the Aral freight station in Aksu Prefecture, a major cotton producer in Xinjiang on March 18. The yarn is first transported to Aksu City on the Aksu-Aral Railway en route to Changxing South Railway Station in Zhejiang. The charter service mainly uses boxcars to carry cotton yarn, a high-quality raw material for the developed textile sector in Zhejiang.