Name: Silk Road on steel tracks: A decade of rapid expansion for China-Europe freight rail
Uploaded: 2026-06-20T14:01:14+08:00
Duration: PT28.04S
Description: Annual freight train trips have skyrocketed 10.8-fold since the unified China-Europe Railway Express was launched in 2016, from 1,702 journeys to 20,022 in 2025, according to data released by China State Railway Group. That's an average annual growth

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Annual freight train trips have skyrocketed 10.8-fold since the unified China-Europe Railway Express was launched in 2016, from 1,702 journeys to 20,022 in 2025, according to data released by China State Railway Group. That's an average annual growth of 31.5%. Since 2020, annual operations have never dipped below 10,000 trips.

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