More bullet trains are being used to help improve logistics capacity during China’s 20-day Singles Day shopping spree in response to growing demand. [Photo provided to CHINA DAILY] Special railway logistics services for online shopping event to last 20 days More bullet trains are being used to help improve logistics capacity during China’s 20-day Singles…
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A C919 jet, type 104, makes its maiden flight at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Aug 1, 2019. [Photo/Chinanews.com] SHANGHAI — Construction of the Shanghai Rail Transit Link Airport Express started on a full scale on Wednesday. The new rail will slash the journey time between Shanghai’s Pudong and Hongqiao airports by more than half…
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For the first time in Lahore, one of Pakistan’s largest cities, subway trains are bringing residents joy and convenience. On Monday, thousands of people including students and government officials took to the stations for their first train ride. It was not uncommon to see whole families riding from one end of the line to the…
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Passengers are going to take a high-speed train to Shanghai at Beijing South Railway Station, Jan 5, 2019. [Photo/Sipa] The high-speed railway between Shanghai and Beijing will adopt a floating ticket price system, Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway Co Ltd announced on Friday. The new price system will begin on Dec 23 and be adopted only…
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A photo captures the new type of high-speed train which is rolled out in Changchun, the capital city of Northeast China’s Jilin province, on Oct 21. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Chinese train maker CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co Ltd rolled out a new type of high-speed train which can run on different rail systems on…
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A China-Europe freight train bound for Almaty, Kazakhstan sets out from Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on May 25, 2019. [Photo/xjdaily.com] URUMQI – Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region saw its railway freight volume top 45.8 million tons in the third quarter of 2020, up 10.6 percent year-on-year, railway authorities said Saturday. The volume of…
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A freight train departs from Shanxi province for Afghanistan on Oct 12. [Photo/Shanxi Daily] North China’s Shanxi province launched its first freight train service to Afghanistan on Oct 12, adding a new route to the province’s freight train network to Europe and Central Asia. The train is loaded with clothing and steel pipes weighing 1,200…
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A train attendant checks the temperatures for a passenger on the first high-speed train from Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to Xi’an, Shaanxi province, on Sunday. It is the second high-speed train route out of Xinjiang and the first one beyond Lanzhou since the Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway was put into operation in 2014. [ZHANG WANDE/FOR…
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A tea farmer picks tea leaves at an ecological tea garden at Chaoyang village of Xingcun town, Wuyishan, East China’s Fujian province on April 14. [Photo/Xinhua] FUZHOU－Sitting cozily in his house, tea grower Wu Erlong scooped up some tea on a spoon, took a small sip and sniffed the aroma. “These are freshly made tea…
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BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) — Some 126.87 million passenger trips were made in China during the 11-day National Day travel rush, official data showed Friday. From Sept. 28 to Oct. 8, the average number of daily railway passenger trips was 11.53 million, about 84 percent of the level recorded during the same period last year,…
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