Passengers enter the Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station on June 25, the first day of the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING — Passenger trips on trains reached 26.78 million during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday travel rush, official data showed Sunday. From June 24 to 27, average daily railway passenger trips hit 6.7 million,…
New bullet train section connecting Hefei and Huzhou opens tomorrow By Wang Keju | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-06-27 15:51 The new section of high-speed railway route linking Hefei, capital of East China’s Anhui province, and Huzhou in East China’s Zhejiang province will be put into operation on Sunday. [Photo/fzggw.ah.gov.cn] By Wang Keju | chinadaily.com.cn
A new railway operating plan will be implemented starting July 1, which will boost China’s passenger transport capacity, according to China’s railway operator on Thursday. Under the new plan, a few rail lines will be put into operation to further optimize the country’s railway network and significantly enhance regional transportation capacity, said China State Railway…
A railway that links Donghai Island with the rest of the city is one of the major modern transport facilities in the important industrial base of Zhanjiang. LANG SHUCHEN/FOR CHINA DAILY In the past few years, the city of Zhanjiang has invested 3.46 billion yuan ($494.29 million) in building a number of infrastructure projects on…
The demolition of the joint liaison office for inter-Korean talks by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Tuesday is a severe setback to the Korean Peninsula peace process. The DPRK claimed the demolition of the office was in response to defectors spreading anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border through balloons. But it appears the…
Few passengers wait at the Beijing Railway Station on Thursday. Since the new outbreak in the city started on June 11, virus control measures have been implemented that include community access restrictions, requiring people to take nucleic acid tests and enacting new travel curbs and rules. ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY The recent outbreak of COVID-19…
Migrants arrive at a railway station in a bus to board a train to their home state of Uttar Pradesh during an extended lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, May 20, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] MUMBAI – Mumbai has commenced limited railway operations within the city, after over two months…
0 QINGDAO, June 11 (Xinhua) — CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd, a major manufacturer of railway cars in China, will provide maintenance services for Argentina’s 709 intercity train carriages, the company announced Thursday. CRRC Sifang signed an online agreement with Argentina’s state-owned rail company, Sociedad Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado (SOFSE), on the cooperation of…
Yang Yang (right) takes the high-speed train G8811 from Beijing North Railway Station to Taizicheng Railway Station on Dec 30, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) vice-president Yang Yang said the global fight against doping is striving to go back to normal as the COVID-19 pandemic eases in some places. Suspension of sporting…
LHASA — The main structure of the Nyingchi railway station in Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region was completed Saturday, marking new progress in the construction of a major railway linking regional capital Lhasa and Nyingchi. The Nyingchi station adopts a design combining both modern and traditional Tibetan architectural styles, according to China Railway Construction Engineering…