In pics: Yiwu-Madrid freight route boosts EU-China trade

A villager pours wine at home in Madrid, Spain, Nov.11, 2017. The wine produced from same area is also exported to China and transported by the Yiwu-Madrid freight train. 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. [Photo/Xinhua]