Germany Plans to Expand Chinese Rail Link as Xi Visits Duisburg
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China and Germany plan to boost a railway route between their countries as President Xi Jinping prepares to welcome a cargo train packed with laptops and electronics in Duisburg, the world’s biggest inland port.
The 700-meter Yuxinou train takes 16 days to travel more than 6,800 miles (11,000 kilometers) from China via Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland. Xi will meet the train tomorrow in a visit to Germany. It’s one of up to three weekly services leaving the industrial hub of Chongqing, where companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co., Acer Inc. and Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn Technology Co. have production sites.