China reports steady railway freight growth in first 7 months
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
China saw steady railway freight growth in the first seven months of 2025, with more efficient network operation and improved services, the national railway operator said Monday.
The national railway system transported an accumulated volume of over 2.33 billion tonnes of cargo in the period, marking a year-on-year increase of 3.3 percent, according to China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. The daily average number of loaded freight cars reached 183,300, up 4.1 percent from the same period last year.
During the January-July period, coal transport reached over 1.19 billion tonnes, and the freight volume for mineral construction materials and grain rose 13.6 percent and 12.7 percent year on year, respectively.
International freight also posted a stable performance. A total of 8,526 Central Asia freight train trips were operated, a 23.2-percent increase from a year ago. The China-Laos Railway transported over 3.44 million tonnes of cross-border cargo, up 6.4 percent year on year.
Next, the company said it will accelerate the development of a modern railway logistics system, deepen market-oriented reform in railway freight transportation, and boost the quality and efficiency of logistics services.
Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20250818/796f3268b2794015bc819cffc3e9a2a2/c.html
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
