China-Europe Railway Express Development Report (2025) Shows: It Injects New Impetus into Global Economic Development

From: Lianyungang Daily Updated: 2025-11-19 04:29

On the 18th, China-Europe Railway Express Development Report (2025) was released at the Second China-Europe Railway Express International Cooperation Forum held in Xi’an. The report points out that the China-Europe Railway Express has stimulated economic vitality along its routes and injected new impetus into global economic development.

According to the report, as of October 2025, the China-Europe Railway Express had operated a cumulative total of 118,600 trains, transporting 11.7 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of goods and reaching 232 cities in 26 European countries.

The full report is divided into four chapters: Development History, Development Philosophy, Development Achievements, and Development Prospects. It systematically summarizes the leapfrog development achievements of the China-Europe Railway Express from scratch, from a small scale to a large one, and from good to excellent, using detailed data and typical cases. It also looks ahead to how the China-Europe Railway Express can continue to develop towards higher quality, better efficiency, and greater security in the future.

The report emphasizes that as a practical cooperation vehicle for the “Belt and Road” Initiative, the China-Europe Railway Express, relying on land bridges and growing towards the land, has, with its strong vitality and development resilience, promoted the convergence and integration of Eastern and Western civilizations and made significant contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind.

The report holds that throughout the development history of the China-Europe Railway Express, China, adhering to the Silk Road spirit of peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning, and mutual benefit, has always followed the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits. Working together with countries along the routes, China has concentrated efforts to promote the high-quality development of the China-Europe Railway Express, creating a new international logistics brand, promoting “hard connectivity” in infrastructure, strengthening “soft connectivity” in rules and mechanisms, enhancing “people-to-people connectivity” among people along the routes, stimulating new economic vitality along the routes, and demonstrating the development philosophy of openness, inclusiveness, win-win cooperation, innovation-driven growth, green and low-carbon development, and security and stability of the China-Europe Railway Express. The brand advantages of the China-Europe Railway Express, such as being “convenient, fast, secure, stable, green, and environmentally friendly”, are increasingly recognized by countries along the routes.

The report points out that looking ahead, the China-Europe Railway Express is still in a new period of development opportunities. Standing at a higher starting point, China will work hand in hand with countries along the routes to continuously strengthen open cooperation, deepen connectivity, further enhance the resilience of the secure development of the China-Europe Railway Express, expand its diversified channel network, promote efficient and convenient transportation of the China-Europe Railway Express, improve its collaborative innovation capabilities, and jointly a new chapter of common prosperity and sustainable development in Asia and Europe.