BEIJING — China’s railway passenger and cargo transport grew steadily in the first five months of this year, data from the national railway operator showed. A total of 1.44 billion rail passenger trips were made in the January-May period, up 118 million year on year, according to the China Railway Corporation (CRC). Cargo transport reached…
China’s official railway ticket-booking website, 12306.cn, and its mobile app sold more than 3.1 billion tickets in a year, according to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. The website has become the largest real-time ticket transaction system in the world. According to statistics, 15 million tickets were sold by the website each day while…
China Railway Corporation (CRC), the country’s top railway operator, saw its net profit reach a record high last year, the company said in a report. Net profit of the railway operator grew 12.42 percent year on year to reach 2.045 billion yuan (about 304 million U.S. dollars) in 2018. The CRC took in a total…
Passengers wait to board a train at Zhengzhou East station in Central China’s Henan province, May 4, 2019. State Council has approved the restructuring of China Railway Corporation and renamed it the China State Railway Group Co Ltd in an effort to make the company more market-oriented. With a registered capital of nearly 1.74 trillion…
Hainan has started to select professional institutions to study the prefeasibility of high-speed rail transit systems linking Haikou with Sanya, both cities in South China’s Hainan, according to the Hainan Provincial Development and Reform Commission. The prefeasibility study for the north-south rail transit projects will focus on planning for a high-speed train line with a…
The China State Railway Group’s new moniker part of marketing vision China’s national railway operator finalized its restructuring and name change on Tuesday, an effort expected to make it more market-oriented. The China Railway Corporation has been renamed China State Railway Group Co Ltd, a wholly State-owned enterprise with registered capital of over 1.73 trillion…
Photo taken on June 14, 2019 shows Chongqing South Railway Station in Southwest China’s Chongqing. Connecting Chengdu of Southwest China’s Sichuan province and Chongqing municipality, the 505-km Chengdu-Chongqing railway is the first railway line contructed after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It was designed by China and built with domestic materials. The…
The first high-speed railway linking Tianjin and Hong Kong will be put into use on July 10, according to Tianjin’s railway authorities. The bullet train, G305, will depart Tianjin West Railway Station at 10:58 am and arrive at Hong Kong West Kowloon Station at 9:02 pm. The second-class seat for the 10-hour ride will cost…
A new subway line in Beijing connecting the Yizhuang economic development zone in Daxing district and Future Science City in Changping district will be in operation by the end of 2022. The line will ease traffic congestion in the capital’s northern residential area, local officials said on Monday. The construction of the new line 17,…
BEIJING – With the last steel rail piece laid Wednesday in a tunnel underground the Tsinghua University in Beijing, the track of the whole length of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-Speed Railway has been built. The original railway linking the two cities, known as China’s first independently designed and built railway, was put into operation in 1909.…