A freight train leaves for Tashkent of Uzbekistan from Weihai port in east China's Shandong Province, Aug. 31, 2018. China's foreign trade rose 9.7 percent year on year to a historic high of 30.51 trillion yuan (about 4.5 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2018, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Monday. The value was 2.7 trillion yuan higher than that of 2017, according to the GAC. (Xinhua/Tang Ke)