Airborne Silk Road helps boost Zhengzhou's fortunes

More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Silk Road unlocked the potential of economic exchanges and trade via camel with distant countries. Nowadays, air transportation is playing a key role.

A new "Silk Road in the air" is booming in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province, linking it all the way to Luxembourg. This international flight route between the two cities is helping boost global trade.

Statistics show total cargo shipments in and out of Zhengzhou Airport likely reached 500,000 metric tons in 2017, and cargo shipments to and from Luxembourg alone from Zhengzhou were expected to constitute 150,000 tons of this, or nearly a third of the total cargo shipments, said Eric Erbacher, sales director of Cargolux Airlines International, Europe's biggest all-cargo airline.