Yiwu-Madrid freight route boosts EU-China trade

A piece of scarf which would be transported to Spain by Yiwu-Madrid freight train is displayed at a warehouse in Yiwu Port in Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 9, 2017. The Yiwu-Madrid freight route linking Zhejiang's Yiwu, the world's largest wholesale market for small consumer goods, with the European commodity center of Madrid by way of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was launched in November of 2014. The Yiwu-Madrid freight route covering over 13,000 kilometres saw over 120 trips in the first ten months carrying 11,000 TEUs, up 53.75 percent year on year. It has boosted foreign trade in east China's export powerhouse of Zhejiang. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)