Int'l Exchange | China-Mongolia border port sees rise in cross-border traffic

An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 22, 2025 shows an inbound China-Europe freight train passes through a land port in Erenhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)

ERENHOT, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, is a pivotal point of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor. As of Dec. 22, inbound and outbound passenger traffic volumes and the number of vehicles driving through Erenhot reached 2.753 million and 741,000, respectively, up by 8.8 percent and 12.1 percent compared with the same period of last year.

An inbound China-Europe freight train passes through a land port in Erenhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 22, 2025. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)

Vehicles wait for border inspection at a land port in Erenhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 22, 2025. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)

Passengers go through border inspection procedures at a land port in Erenhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 22, 2025. (Photo by Guo Pengjie/Xinhua)

Passengers prepare to go through border inspection procedures at a land port in Erenhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 22, 2025. (Photo by Guo Pengjie/Xinhua)

A passenger goes through border inspection procedures at a land port in Erenhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 22, 2025. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)

A passenger goes through border inspection procedures at a land port in Erenhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 22, 2025. (Photo by Guo Pengjie/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 10, 2025 shows a border trade zone in Erenhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Photo by Guo Pengjie/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 10, 2025 shows a truck loading goods in Erenhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)