Xu Jianping, director of the Department of Regional Openness of the State Committee for Development and Reform of the People's Republic of China Xu Jianping, director of the Regional Openness Department of China's State Committee for Development and Reform, said on 24 November that the cumulative the cumulative number of China-Europe trains launched has reached 81,000 cumulative total for the whole of Europe.The routes connected China with 217 cities in 25 European countries.