The first charted train carrying students back to their university in Shihezi in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region departed Jinan Railway Station in Shandong province on Monday. A total of 960 students of Shihezi University were on board and scheduled to arrive on Wednesday afternoon. Three hundred and thirty boarded at Jinan, while the rest…
China’s national railway operator said it will increase its passenger transport capacity in the second quarter of this year, highlighting the first interprovincial loop railway service in the country. The new plan, effective on Friday, raised the number of passenger trains in service between April and June to 4,970.5 pairs, an increase of 130.5 pairs…
The 11 million people in the city of Wuhan embraced rebirth Wednesday after 76 days of stringent lockdown amid a national fight against the coronavirus. History will remember how a prosperous and vibrant metropolis came to a virtual standstill, how people had to face enormous changes to their daily life and how they bore the…
Quarantined at home or resuming commutes to work, tech-users consume digital sound content amid the contagion During a 10-kilometer trip passing through several residential neighborhoods in Beijing, 40-year-old Didi driver Wu Gang tapped his phone about 30 times and switched to different online audio channels podcasting the latest news about the novel coronavirus outbreak to…
The Ministry of Commerce has come out with 11 measures to support the operation of China-Europe freight train service, stabilize trade growth and help work resumption at export-oriented firms to mitigate the damage caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. The ministry will help domestic manufacturers in need adopt the transcontinental freight train service to gain supplies…
BEIJING — Beijing has ramped up subway and bus services to meet the needs of the public who honor tomb-sweeping traditions, but it expects a drop in the number of passengers due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Tomb-sweeping Day, also known as Qingming Festival, falls on Saturday. During the period leading to and after the day,…
A section of the railway line between Matianxu and Qifengdu stations on the Beijing-Guangzhou line collapsed following a landslide on Monday, causing Train T179 to derail and overturn, leaving one person dead and 127 people injured. The loss of life is unfortunate, more so because just 11 minutes before the accident, a villager had called…
One person died and 127 were injured after a passenger train derailed in Chenzhou, Hunan province, at around 11:40 am on Monday, the Chenzhou government said. Authorities are looking into the cause of the accident, it said.
The ban on outbound civilian traffic from Hubei province, with the exception of that from Wuhan, the provincial capital, was finally lifted on Wednesday, after eight weeks. The ban on that from Wuhan is due to be lifted on April 8. The lockdown on Wuhan was announced on Jan 23, but the rapid transmission of…
Railway authorities will offer discounts as deep as 45 percent off ticket prices for more than 200 train services on 25 intercity railways starting Wednesday, the China State Railway Group said on Monday. The move is to meet the rising demand of commuting after work resumption and encourage spring excursions to nearby destinations, it said.…