CGTN published this video item, entitled “New China-Europe freight train route opens for rapeseed oil imports from Russia” – below is their description.
A new chartered train commissioned to transport rapeseed oil from Russia arrived in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province on Monday. The rapeseed oil weighed more than 1,000 tonnes and is worth 17 million yuan (about $2.45 million). The consignment was transported from Tikhonovo in Russia and arrived at the Xi’an international container center station 18 days later, after transiting through Manzhouli, China’s largest land port. #shorts #china #russia
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China is the third largest country in the world by area and the largest country in the world by population. Properly known as the People’s Republic of China, the political territory of the country includes Tibet and Hong Kong. The capital is Beijing.
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Russia spans more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, stretching eleven time zones, and bordering 16 sovereign nations. Moscow is the country’s capital.
The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 and since 1993 Russia been governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. Russia is a major great power, with the world’s second-most powerful military, and the fourth-highest military expenditure. As a recognised nuclear-weapon state, the country possesses the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.