People stand near a China-made freight train during the linking ceremony of the two sections of the international railway between Turkmenistan and Iran in the Turkmen village of Ak Yayla bordering Iran, on December 3, 2014. Kazakhstan's president Nursultan Nazarbayev, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani co-inaugurated the new railway route that will improve the exchange of goods between the three countries. The railway is also a part of transportation artery from coastal city Lianyungang of east China to west Asian counties. [Photo/Xinhua] |