The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region plans to further unleash the potential of the Urumqi International Land Port Area this year after it witnessed fast growth in trade volume last year, local officials said.

Last year, the number of freight trucks and trains that left China for Central Asian and European countries passing through the key port on the Silk Road Economic Belt both increased, according to statistics from the land port in the regional capital of Urumqi.

In 2022, more than 19,000 freight trucks passed through the land port, double that of 2021, along with more than 1,165 China-Europe railway express trains, an increase of 16.5 percent year-on-year.