As a major transportation artery connecting the two oceans across the Eurasian continent, the China-Europe freight train has accumulated more than 50,000 trains recently, reaching 180 cities in 23 European countries, making positive contributions to promoting the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Being busy is the norm for Huang Wei, the chief dispatcher driver. As the "first stick" of the China-Europe freight train, he has to drive the locomotives to organize the scattered carriages into rows, and then tow them to the designated positions to dock the freight locomotives.

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, global logistics channels have been blocked, and China-Europe freight trains have achieved contrarian growth with the advantages of safety and efficiency, leading to the "bond of destiny" of interconnection and win-win cooperation among countries along the route.

The China-Europe freight train has a long distance. Even within China, it is not carried to the end by a fixed driver and locomotive, but by the locomotives and drivers of various railway departments. Each trip is equipped with two people, the driver is responsible for driving, and the co-driver assists in looking out and confirming various signals.

In the past five years, the number of China-Europe trains has increased by 55% annually, and the categories of goods have expanded from daily necessities, mobile phones, and computers to more than 50,000 kinds of auto parts, complete vehicles, chemicals, and electromechanical products.Editor/Ma Xue