China-Europe freight services via Erenhot railway port surpass 2,000 trips this year

A China-Europe freight train loaded with 55 containers departed on Tuesday from the Erenhot railway port in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region bound for Malaszewicze, Poland, marking the 2,000th train to pass through the port since the beginning of this year.

As of Monday, the Erenhot railway port had handled 193,700 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of goods, totaling 1.8266 million tonnes, representing year-on-year increases of 10.94 percent and 27.46 percent, respectively, according to local authorities.

As a key part of the Belt and Road Initiative, the China-Europe Railway Express continues to expand its transcontinental logistics network.

Currently, 75 train routes operate via the Erenhot railway port, reaching over 70 hub stations in more than 10 countries, such as Germany and Poland. Domestically, the network covers most of the originating cities of China-Europe freight train services.

China on Monday began implementing 102 national standards for public safety, consumer protection and high-quality economic growth.

Among them is a new standard on credit information data for financing services of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

It sets basic principles for using credit data, including information classification, data requirements and management.

Authorities hope the move will improve data governance under the national integrated financing credit service platform, helping to ease financing difficulties and lower borrowing costs for SMEs.

Other standards include those for freestanding smoke fire detectors, packaging and transport of dangerous goods, electrical safety of gas-fired appliances, formaldehyde emission limits for engineered wood products, refrigeration appliances, inclusive communities for people with dementia in an aging society, and defect monitoring and analysis of power batteries.