Yunnan special goods bound for Thailand via China-Laos rail

Customs officers check the goods to be exported to Thailand. (Photo by Chen Yao)

The first batch of Yunnan goods for cross-border e-commerce has left Kunming March 14 for Thailand via a China-Laos freight train.

A passenger train on China-Laos railway (Online photo subject to deletion)

The 42,200 pieces of goods are mostly daily necessities valuing 651,100 US dollars in total. And this marks the beginning of exporting Yunnan e-commerce goods through China-Laos railway.

Reporting by Liu Ziyu (Yunnan Daily); Trans-editing by Wang Shixue