Summary：Hundreds of commodity cars are transported daily through the Horgos Port, a comprehensive highway and railway port...

Hundreds of commodity cars are transported daily through the Horgos Port, a comprehensive highway and railway port in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.

A total of 134,000 commodity cars, an increase of 310 percent year-on-year, have been exported through the port during the first seven months of this year, according to customs data.

"Xinjiang is transforming from a relatively closed inland region to a more open area," said Zhang Shijun, deputy director of the autonomous region's policy research and reform office, adding Xinjiang has engaged in economic and trade cooperation with 190 countries and regions.

He said that 118 bilateral international road transport routes have been opened in Xinjiang, accounting for over one-third of China's total. It has also established 26 international air routes, reaching 19 countries.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. Xinjiang is striving to build a "golden corridor" that connects Asia and Europe by taking advantage of the Urumqi international land port as a leading force, supported by the Kashgar and Horgos economic development zones.

As one of the flagship projects in the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt core area, the Urumqi international land port has completed construction of several functional zones, including the Urumqi comprehensive bonded zone, China-Europe freight train (Urumqi) consolidation center and Urumqi multimodal transport center.