A China-Europe Railway Express train, loaded with high-quality products from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, sounded its whistle for departure from Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province. It will arrive in Moscow via Manzhouli Land Port in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. This is the 1,000th train of the China-Europe Railway Express (Shenzhen), marking Shenzhen’s active participation in the Belt and Road Initiative and foretelling a new chapter of win-win cooperation.
A New Transport Hub for the Region
Since its operations began in August 2020, the China-Europe Railway Express (Shenzhen) has seen sound development, owing to the coordination and management of Shenzhen International Holdings Limited. To date, more than 98,600 twenty-foot equivalent containers of cargo valued at over $3.6 billion have been transported on the route, seeing positive growth momentum. Notably, 204 trains set out in 2025, resulting in a 9.29-percent rise in cargo volume and a 36.87-percent rise in cargo value compared with the previous year. The exported cargo volume surged by 30.5 percent. The swelling transport scale and improved services boosted the foreign trade of the Greater Bay Area.
A One-stop Cross-Border Transport Solution
To cater to the market, the China-Europe Railway Express (Shenzhen) optimized its route layouts and opened special routes to Laos, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. These arrangements offered Greater Bay Area enterprises flexible, convenient and affordable logistics for international trade. In particular, the trans-Caspian sea-rail multimodal transport has cut back spatial limitations and seamlessly and effectively connected the two transport models, thereby making the cross-Eurasia freight more efficient and convenient.
Looking ahead, the China-Europe Railway Express (Shenzhen) will strive for superior quality, great efficiency and enormous influence, and set an example for its peers. In this way, it will consolidate Shenzhen’s position as an international comprehensive transport hub and contribute more to the building of the new development paradigm and the high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
(Executive editor: Yuan Ting)
