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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
LHASA, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — A freight train departing from Yiwu City in east China's Zhejiang Province on December 25, 2025, arrived in Shigatse City in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Saturday. The total value of the goods it carried, including daily necessities, bolts of fabric, and furniture, exceeded 6 million yuan (about 853,000 U.S. dollars).
Thus, in 2025, a total of 12 trains operated on the Xizang-South Asia rail-road intermodal transport route, carrying cargo worth more than 230 million yuan.
As part of the aforementioned freight transportation, goods collected outside of Xijiang are first sent by train to the SAR. After inspection in Shigatse, the goods are transported to South Asian countries by road through the Xijiang port. This model improves freight transportation efficiency by over 30 percent and reduces overall logistics costs by approximately 20 percent.
According to Yu Miao, head of the Comprehensive Department of the Shigatse Economic Development Zone Management Committee, since the first train departed on August 15, 2024, the capacity for providing such service has been continuously expanding, which has expanded Xijiang's economic and trade ties with South Asia and promoted Xijiang's high-level opening up to the outside world in the process of jointly building the Belt and Road.
Currently, the range of export goods transported by such trains is becoming increasingly diverse, including not only traditional everyday items, but also products with high added value, including vehicles using new energy sources. -0-
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