Bullet trains traveled at speeds of 453 kilometers per hour and 420 km/h on test runs recently, demonstrating further evidence of China’s rapid development of high-speed trains, the national railway operator China State Railway Group said on Saturday. The test runs were carried out along the high-speed railway linking Fuzhou and Xiamen in Fujian province…
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Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has seen the passing of 1,824 passenger trains with the transportation of nearly 530,900 passengers during its five and half years of operation, an Ethiopian government official disclosed Friday. Alemu Sime, minister of Transport and Logistics, made the remarks while addressing a high-level meeting themed “China-Ethiopia Building Belt and Road.” The roundtable…
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NANJING, June 24 (Xinhua) On Saturday, Line 11 of the Suzhou metro went into operation, linking the city of Suzhou, a major GDP contributor in east China’s Jiangsu Province, with Shanghai, another economic heavyweight in the region. This is the first time that the core cities in the Yangtze River Delta region have linked their separate…
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This aerial photo taken on April 7, 2023 shows a container ship sailing at Tianjin Port in North China’s Tianjin. [Photo/Xinhua] LANZHOU — A freight train carrying 300 tonnes of magnesium chloride departed from a station of Wuwei city in Northwest China’s Gansu province on Thursday, heading for North China’s Tianjin Port before arriving at…
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Rail network to increase train services from July 1 The first test train runs on the second Shanghai-Nanjing intercity high-speed railway spanning the Yangtze River on June 15, 2023. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] China’s national railway network will implement a new train schedule from July 1, according to the China State Railway Group on Tuesday. A total of…
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The first test train runs on the second Shanghai-Nanjing intercity high-speed railway spanning the Yangtze River on Thursday. The railway is being partly built by China Railway 24th Bureau Group Corp Ltd. [Photo/China Daily] China’s high-speed railway expansion charged ahead on Thursday with a new line that is expected to slash travel times in eastern…
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KUNMING, June 13 (Xinhua) — The China-Laos Railway has handled 25,000 cross-border passenger trips since the launch of its passenger services on April 13, according to the Mohan entry-exit border checkpoint. During the period, the Chinese border town of Mohan in the country’s southwestern Yunnan Province logged 14,156 inbound passenger trips and 11,752 outbound trips.…
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A high-speed rail rush is fueling the rise of the Yangtze River Delta region as China’s economic heartland, which is home to more than one-sixth of the country’s population and the source of 24 percent of its GDP last year. According to China Railway Shanghai Group Co Ltd, a unit of national rail operator China…
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Belt and Road as a New Global Paradigm The Belt and Road is an overarching policy for developing infrastructure through finance and ecological civilization under the overarching value of a common shared destiny of mankind. It is creating a new mega-trend that will soon become a new global paradigm. The Belt and Road as a…
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Suzhou’s new metro Line 11, which will connect downtown Suzhou with Shanghai, will soon be put into operation. With a total length of 41.25 kilometers, Line 11 runs between Weiting Station at Suzhou Industrial Park and Huaqiao Station in the Suzhou-administered county-level city of Kunshan. With 28 stations, travelers can transfer to Subway Line 3…
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