The border crossing of Erenhot in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has seen its imported and exported cargo volumes this year exceed 10 million tonnes as of Monday (10 Aug), up by 15.6 percent year on year, according to the China Railway Hohhot Group.

The imported cargo volume was about 9.15 million tonnes, up by 17.3 from the previous year, while the exported cargo volume was 892,300 tonnes, up by 0.4 percent.

The Erenhot Crossing is the largest land port on the border between China and Mongolia, and is crossed by 41 China-Europe freight train routes.

As of Monday, 1,290 China-Europe freight trains had passed through Erenhot into Mongolia since the start of this year, up by 38.1 percent year on year.