After covering 12,000 km, the first freight train which links Yiwu to london reached the chinese town on Saturday morning.
The train passed through France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan.
it is loaded with medicines, machinery, baby milk and whiskey.
yiwu in eastern Zhejiang province is a major hub for small consumer goods.
The route is longer than Trans-Siberian railway where the run is from Moscow to Pyongyang in North Korea
it is just around 1000 km shorter than the record-holdingChina-Madrid link, which was inaugurated in 2014
the train, named the East Wind, has much less carrying capacity — 88 shipping containers— compared to 20,000 cargo ships can carry.
