An employee works at a dairy factory in the village of Lipnice, near the Polish capital of Warsaw, on April 19, 2017. Never before has Mariusz Marczak showned so much interest in the Chinese market half a world away from Poland. Just about 60 kilometers west of Marczak's cow farm, the Polish city of Lodz now has a direct cargo railway connection with Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. The rail connection is one of the symbolic projects of the Belt and Road Initiative, a China-proposed transnational network of trade, investment and economic development. (Xinhua/Chen Xu)
