By Hu Yumeng and Ma Jingna in Lanzhou | China Daily | Updated: 2026-01-13

A freight train carrying seeds departs from Jiuquan for Italy via the new western land-sea corridor rail-sea linkage on Dec 24, 2025. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

A freight route linking northwestern China with Europe began operating carrying hundreds of metric tons of agricultural seeds from Gansu province on Dec 24.

The inaugural train left a railway logistics hub in Jiuquan, transporting 24 containers of vegetables and flower seeds bound for Italy and the Netherlands via China's

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