Intercity railway connects Beijing with 鈥榗ity of future鈥
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The Beijing-Xiong鈥檃n intercity railway opened to traffic yesterday, connecting the Chinese capital with the country鈥檚 鈥渃ity of the future鈥 鈥 the Xiong鈥檃n New Area.
At 10:18am, the C2702 Fuxing bullet train left the newly built Xiong鈥檃n Railway Station for Beijing, marking the inauguration of the line鈥檚 operation as well as the use of Xiong鈥檃n Railway Station, the first completed major infrastructure project in Xiong鈥檃n.
鈥淚鈥檓 very excited to take the first train on the new railway,鈥 said Xiao Huibin, 48, a passenger from Rongcheng County in Xiong鈥檃n. He said he had taken many photos before boarding the C2702 train and would keep the ticket as a memento.
Xiao, who runs a food trade business in Beijing, commutes between Beijing and Xiong鈥檃n roughly once a week. 鈥淚t takes me over two hours one way by bus or by car. Now, the intercity trains have made my trip much more convenient,鈥 he said.
Travel time from Beijing West Railway Station to the Xiong鈥檃n New Area was cut from one and a half hours to about 50 minutes. It takes only 19 minutes to travel from Beijing Daxing International Airport to Xiong鈥檃n.
Of the 91km newly built section of the railway, the part between Daxing airport and Xiong鈥檃n went into operation yesterday, with a designed speed of 350km per hour. The stretch between Beijing West Railway Station and Daxing airport opened in September 2019.
Travel time will be further reduced to 36 minutes after the existing section is upgraded, said Li Zheng, a senior manager of the Xiong鈥檃n high-speed railway corporation.
Located about 100km southwest of Beijing, the Xiong鈥檃n New Area 鈥 spanning the Rongcheng, Anxin, and Xiongxian counties and some adjacent areas 鈥 aims to become a new engine for the modern economic system and to promote regional coordinated development.
Located near Baiyangdian Lake, Xiong鈥檃n Railway Station has a construction area of 475,200 square meters, the size of 66 soccer fields, and is designed to appear like dew on a lotus leaf.
The station鈥檚 oval roof is a photovoltaic power generation system, echoing the green drive to develop the Xiong鈥檃n New Area.
Generating an annual average of 5.8 million kWh of power, the system helps cut carbon dioxide emissions by 4,500 tons every year, equivalent to planting 120,000 hectares of trees, according to Wu Yadong, chief engineer of the station project from China Railway Construction Engineering Group.
Liu Weiqun, chairman of the China Railway Design Corp, said they had adopted building information modeling technology and some 70 cutting-edge technologies to build the railway. It includes the Internet of Things, cloud computing and big data, setting a new benchmark for intelligent high-speed railways globally.
China announced plans to establish the Xiong鈥檃n New Area on April 1, 2017. It is a strategically important project for the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
While Beijing鈥檚 outer Tongzhou District has accommodated the administrative departments of the Beijing municipal government, Xiong鈥檃n in Hebei Province will relieve Beijing of functions non-essential to its role as China鈥檚 capital, to treat its 鈥渦rban ills鈥 such as traffic jams and pollution.
With a planned area of 1,770 square kilometers, Xiong鈥檃n is a new area of national significance that follows the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the Shanghai Pudong New Area.
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