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The new Khorgas Sino-Kazakh border railway checkpoint handled 10 times the freight to 1.61 million tonnes, carried in 57,587 trains, since it opened in December 2012, reports Xinhua.

Urumqi Railway Bureau expects that the cargo handling volume of the Khorgas checkpoint will reach 20 million tonnes by 2020 and 35 million tonnes by 2030. The Khorgas checkpoint is intended to be a major hub for freight passenger transport and play an increasingly important role in the Silk Road economy.

The checkpoint is 80 kilometres from Xinjiang's Yining, 670 kilometres from Urumqi and 378 kilometres from the Kazakh city of Almaty. Before the new railway opens, the trade between China and Kazakhstan was moved old route via the Alashankou-Dostyk border checkpoint, which is west China's first cross-border railway.

The Khorgas border checkpoint was undergoing expansion in the past year. The project has already been finished, bringing the checkpoint 14 broad gauge lines, 17 standard gauge lines, six groups of 12 transshipment tracks as well as other new handling facilities.Alataw Pass vol.