A full-length documentary on the China-Europe Railway was launched in Shanghai on Tuesday. Through the stories of unsung heroes behind the freight railway, including truck drivers, cargo checkers and merchants engaged in cross-border e-commerce, the documentary portrays the route for the new Silk Road. It also illustrates how the Economic Belt will bring win-win cooperation to the participating countries.

This is a 52-minute documentary called "New Ties along Silk Road: China-Europe Railway". It was planned and produced jointly by the French-language channel of China Global Television Network in China as well as RTS, a French-language TV channel in Switzerland.

YANG CHENGXI SHANGHAI "A launching ceremony of the film was held on Tuesday. The event is part of the on-going Fourth Meeting of China-EU High Level People-to-People Dialogue. The keynote speaker was Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong."

LIU YANDONG CHINESE VICE PREMIER "The China-Europe railway is the world's longest cargo rail line. The film not only shows the economic achievements of the Silk Road Economic Belt, but also a panorama of the Eurasian region."

She and her counterpart Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, announced the official release of the film, together with other media officials.

JEAN-PHILIPPE JUTZI HEAD OF CULTURE & MEDIA AFFAIRS, EMBASSY OF SWITZERLAND "More and more goods, more and more services, more and more trains will follow the route of the Silk Road. It's also a very important link to improve the relations and to improve the knowledge of people one regarding the other. It's an important way of communicating."

The film crew spent 21 days and travelled 13 thousand kilometers from the county of Yiwu, a renowned trade hub in China's eastern Zhejiang province, running along the Silk Road Economic Belt, passing through Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany and finally reaching at Madrid in Spain. The documentary will premiere across TV networks in February of 2018, giving the audience a peak into the lives of the cargo checkers, merchants and train workers along the modern Silk Road, who collectively tell a story of culture exchange between east and west.

CHANTAL BERNHEIM, PR DIRECTOR RTS "We don't know a lot about Asian culture or what we know is very superficial. So when we have the opportunity of exchanging programs the way we are doing with CGTN French, I can see we collaborate, we co-produce now with teams and crews from China, and we have the Swiss director collaborating with the Chinese director. We do the editing together, we talk. The more we talk, the more we exchange, the more we know each other. This is the third collaboration that we have, and I know that we can have much more."

Since the China-Europe Railway between Yiwu and Madrid was launched on November 18th on 2014, cargo volume along this route had increased 105 percent in the first nine months this year. This is a road with many stories to tell, stories of connectivity and prosperity. YANG CHENGXI CGTN SHANGHAI.