Stewardesses of the high-speed railway linking Tianjin and Hong Kong receive training in north China’s Tianjin, June 30, 2019. 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 a.m. and…
A “Fuxing” high-speed train runs on the Beijing-Tianjin interurban railway in Beijing, capital of China, Jan 25, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING — Some 720 million passenger trips are expected to be made on Chinese railways during this year’s “summer transport” from Monday to the end of August, according to the China State Railway Group. The figure…
Passengers wait to take trains at Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Station on Feb 6, 2019. The first high-speed railway direct service linking southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality and Hong Kong will be available on July 10, according to Chongqing’s railway authorities Friday. The bullet trains for the service are coded G319/320. The train will depart Chongqing…
People visit the stand for China Railway Signal and Communication Co (CRSC) during the second World Intelligence Congress in Tianjin, May 16, 2018. [Photo/IC] Facility to offer train operation control systems for Hungary-Serbia railway China Railway Signal and Communication Co, the world’s largest provider of rail transportation control systems by market share, has established a…
Facility to offer train operation control systems for Hungary-Serbia railway China Railway Signal and Communication Co, the world’s largest provider of rail transportation control systems by market share, has established a system laboratory in the Serbian capital of Belgrade to better serve the needs of its foreign clients, said its top executive. The new system…
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…