A trial train hits 220 kilometers per hour on a section of the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Railway during a top-speed test run on May 4. [XU CONGJUN/FOR CHINA DAILY] Lines connecting Shanghai, neighbor provinces to make travel easier in area The Yangtze River Delta region, one of China’s most economically active, open and innovative areas, is gaining…
A new railway connecting China’s economic hub Shanghai and Nantong in neighboring Jiangsu province is scheduled to start operation on Wednesday, said the country’s railway operator. With a designed speed of 200 kilometers per hour, the rail line will cut travel time between Shanghai and Nantong to about one hour from the current 3.5 hours,…
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…
A clerk counts cash at a bank in Huaibei, Anhui province. [Photo provided to China Daily] Statistics show China’s industrial added value fell by 2.8 percent year-on-year from January to May, 5.6 percentage points less than the decline in the first quarter, as April and May saw year-on-year growth. The five-month period saw the service…
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…