10 years on, Beijing-Shanghai line on fast track to high-speed glory

A technician checks a high-speed train in Shanghai. [Photo by Zhang Hengwei/China News Service] The COVID-19 epidemic hurt China’s high-speed railway sector last year, but the Beijing-Shanghai section, which will turn 10 on Wednesday, remained profitable, spurring the introduction of a new model of Fuxing bullet train on the prime stretch, offering better services and safety,…

Hong Kong’s longest railway line to open fully on June 27

Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, officiates at a ceremony celebrating the opening of Tuen Ma Line on June 26, 2021. [Photo/CCTV] HONG KONG — Tuen Ma Line, the longest railway line in Hong Kong, will fully open on Sunday, running through eastern and western New Territories and Kowloon. Carrie…

China estimates 124m passenger trips during holiday

A tour group arrive at Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong province, April 26, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – Total passenger trips made during China’s Dragon Boat Festival holiday are expected to reach 124 million, according to official data. The average daily passenger trips will likely exceed 41.23 million during the period, up by…

Trains off assembly line heading for Egypt

The first of 22 electric multiple units, or EMUs, designed for urban rail transit in Egypt rolled off the assembly line last week in Qingdao, Shandong province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The first of 22 electric multiple units, or EMUs, designed for Egypt’s urban rail transit system by China’s rolling-stock maker CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co,…

China’s success will lead to Central Asia’s success

A China-Europe freight train carrying medical supplies bound for Madrid of Spain departs from the city of Yiwu, East China’s Zhejiang province, on June 5, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] The issue of global connectivity in many regions is a matter of survival and development. Central Asia does not have access to the sea and is one of…

Ministry ensures vaccines transported smoothly

Workers transport boxes of vaccines against the COVID-19 developed by Beijing Institute of Biological Products under Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG), from a truck to a cold storage facility of Guangdong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on April 8, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] China is capable of transporting sufficient doses of…

CPC trains officials with immersive education

NANCHANG — Among visitors to Jinggangshan, known as a “cradle” of the Chinese revolution, there were groups of people wearing identical dark outfits with red ties or pins. They were not tourists, but trainees from various levels of Party schools, brought here for an “immersive” Party history education program. In October 1927, Mao Zedong led…

Lithuania’s withdrawal from ’17+1′ shows it is snared in Cold War web: China Daily editorial

A China-Europe freight train with 45 compartments of anti-epidemic supplies leaves the Xinzhu Railway Station in Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, on Aug 12, 2020, to head for Italy’s Milan. [Photo/Xinhua] Informing the media of his country’s decision to withdraw from the “17+1” cooperation mechanism on Saturday, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis described the platform…