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**1.MEETING SETS STAGE FOR MORE CONTACT BETWEEN CHINA-U.S.**Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao lijian told a regular press briefing today that China and the United States discussed the holding a video summit between their leader before the end of this year.Zhao said senior Chinese diplomat yang Jiechi and U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan discuss the possibility.Yang and Sullivan have made discussions on holding a meeting before the end of this year. The Chinese side attaches great importance to Biden's recent positive comments on China us relation that the U.S. has no intention of curtailing China's development or waging a new cold war. We hope the U.S. side will pursue a rational and pragmatic policy toward China and will work with China to respect each other's core interests and major concern.2."SH EXPRESS" FREIGHT TRAIN DEPARTS HAMBURGThe "Shanghai Express" freight train left Hamburg, Germany for Shanghai yesterday. It's the first freight train departing Europe directly for Shanghai. Zhang Hong tells more. Early in the morning, the Shanghai Express left Billwerder Terminal in Hamburg. It will travel through Poland, Russia and Kazakhstan among others and is expected to reach Shanghai in 18 days, less than half the travel time of regular trains. Some CIIE exhibits were also loaded on the train. As the largest port in Germany, Hamburg is also one of the largest terminals for China-Europe trade with almost one-third of the containers to or from China. The port handled over 2.4 million TEU in trade with China last year. The railway at Hamburg has been operating amid the pandemic and China-Hamburg freight volume increased about 7% last year. Andreas Bernhof, Billwerder TerminalThe freight train serves as a new Eurasian corridor linking the city of Hamburg and Shanghai. Aside from "Shanghai Express", other China-Euro freight trains have also been very important to us, bringing a large number of trade volume. We sincerely hope to see more trains from China.The first "Shanghai Express" freight train to Hamburg departed Shanghai on September 28th. There is one train each week and more trains will be running between the two cities in the future. China-Euro freight trains now connect 174 cities in 23 European countries. 3.POWERFUL OUAKE INJURES MORE THAN 50 IN JAPANA powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 that struck the Tokyo area last night has left more than 50 people injured and continued to disrupt train services this morning, affecting nearly 370,000 passengers. Zhang Yue has more.According to the East Japan Railway Company, the strongest earthquake in a decade caused services on the Shinkansen bullet train servicing the Japanese capital to be canceled or delayed. 16 local train lines were also disrupted resulting in many late-night train passengers becoming stranded and a commuter disruption this morning. All train services were back up and running by 3p.m. local time today, Around 250 houses in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward briefly experienced power outages due to the earthquake, and water stoppages and leaks were reported across central Tokyo.Japan's new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida returned to his office yesterday to take helm of a government task force. Fumio Kishida, Japanese Prime MinisterThe first point is to understand the actual situation. The second point is to work together with local governments to help and rescue the victims. The third point is to provide accurate information to the people. The fourth point is to try to prevent the spread of damage.So far, several train and subway lines in Tokyo and Chiba which initially shut down, have restarted their operations. Officials said there was no danger of a tsunami from the quake.According to a report by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism, the earthquake caused 28 incidents of people being trapped in elevators in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures. All the trapped individuals were rescued, and no injuries were reported.