Rows of cargo trains park inside a depot at a station in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province on July 21, 2025. In the first half of this year, the national railway system transported 1.98 billion tons of cargo, a year-on-year increase of 3 percent, with the daily average number of loaded freight cars reaching 182,400, up 4 percent, data from China State Railway Group showed. Photo: VCG