(XU YU)

The first freight train to travel from east China's Yiwu, the world's largest wholesale market for small consumer goods, to Madrid, Spain, embarks on November 18. The 13,000-km line passes through six countries apart from China and Spain, including Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and France. It takes 21 days to travel the entire course of the line, the longest in all China-European cargo railway.