A container train arrives at a Jiaozhou railway station in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province. (Photos: VCG)

It was loaded with $3 million worth of cotton yarn from Tashkent, the largest city of Uzbekistan, traveling for 15 days in total.

This is the first train to come from Uzbekistan since the railway link between Qingdao and Central Asia opened in 2015.

So far, more than 3,000 freight trains have departed from Qingdao to Central Asian countries and regions.

A container train arrives at a Jiaozhou railway station in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province.