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Nine new passenger stations along a railway looping around the Taklimakan Desert in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region were revealed to the public recently, before the line's opening next month.

An overhaul for the Datong-Qinhuangdao railway has been recently carried out on a daily basis to secure safe and smooth rail operations.

The train is scheduled to arrive in Bangkok via Laos' Vientiane in 12 days. The trip via railway is one month shorter compared to the previous sea shipping route between the two cities.

More than 948 million metric tons of cargo was transported by rail from January to March, a year-on-year increase of 2.8 percent, according to national railway operator China State Railway Group.

According to the diagram, new cargo trains will be added to transport coal from the coal-rich Shanxi Province to the eastern regions, said the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd.