This combo photo shows the Yiwu International Trade Market on Oct. 24, 2018 (upper, photo taken by Xinhua photographer Tan Jin), and a local market in September of 1982, in Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang Province.

The train service from the Chinese small commodity hub of Yiwu to the European commodity center of Madrid was officially launched in November 2014, spanning eight countries in Eurasia with a total length of more than 13,000 kilometers.

The train service from Yiwu to Madrid has become a carrier of economic and trade cooperation and cultural exchanges between countries along the railway and has built a new bridge for opening and cooperation between countries and peoples along the line. (Xinhua)