China-Europe freight trains inject impetus into world economy

STORY: China-Europe freight trains inject impetus into world economy DATELINE: April 21, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:50 LOCATION: HORGOS, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of trains 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CHEN FANG, Horgos Customs officer 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MARKUS TEUBER, China Representative, Mayor's Department, Duisburg, Germany 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MARKUS TEUBER, China Representative, Mayor's Department, Duisburg, Germany 5. various of Duisburg STORYLINE: The number of China-Europe freight trains has surpassed 15,000 in 2021, up by 22 percent year-on-year, making a new record. This means at least 40 China-Europe freight trains head for their destinations every day. Horgos, known as a "millennium relay station" along the ancient Silk Road, serves as a major railway port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The first China-Europe freight train departed from Horgos in March 2016. Ever since then, cargo trains from across the country head for their destinations in Asia