BEIJING (XINHUA) – China’s railway network transported 970 million tonnes of cargo in the first three months of 2025, up 3.1 per cent year on year, the railway operator said.
Daily loading amounted to a total of 179,000 cars, an increase of 4.2 per cent year on year, according to China State Railway Group Co Ltd.
The railway network also facilitated cross-border trade in this period.
Notably, China-Central Asia freight trains operated a total of 3,582 services, marking a year-on-year surge of 25.5 per cent, the railway operator revealed.
The China-Laos Railway, which links Kunming in southwest China’s Yunnan Province and the Laotian capital Vientiane, transported 1.51 million tonnes of cross-border cargo in the first quarter of 2025, up 10 per cent year on year.
