«The train delivered medical equipment to Belgrade today, which the Republic of Serbia bought from China for the fight against coronavirus,» the Serbian government said in a press release.
«The cargo includes protective masks, protective suits, gloves, goggles, visors and other equipment,» it said.
The train left Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, on May 9, loaded with 294.42 tons of anti-epidemic supplies, China Railway previously told Xinhua.
The China-Europe Railway Express, or China Railway Express (CRE), is key logistical cog in President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative. It provides an alternative to container shipping for transporting Chinese manufactured goods to Europe via Russia.
Against the prevailing narrative of the The Belt and Road as a top-down strategy to spread China’s geopolitical influence, there is the BRI’s impact through its first decade as emanating «from the middle out and bottom up» via transport-enabled corridors traversing a large number of regions within and across national territories.
