Railway stretches 100,000km
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China’s rail network topped 100,000 kilometers in total mileage, as several new high-speed rail links started operations ahead of one of the busiest travel seasons next month.
The newly opened routes include the Xiamen-Shenzhen, Xi’an-Baoji and Chongqing-Lichuan railways along with others in southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, all of which have a combined mileage of 2,000km.
Of the 100,000km track, more than 10,000km are high-speed network, said Hu Yadong, vice general manager of the China Railway Corporation.
The expanded railway network will increase passenger capacity during the 40-day spring travel peak, which starts on January 16, by 7.9 percent, said Yang Chuantang, minister of transport.
Yang forecasted that 257 million trips will be made by rail during the Spring Festival travel peak.
A total of 2,667 trains will be operating before the Spring Festival, up by 157 from last year.
Total trips during the period is expected to set a new record by reaching 3.62 billion, including waterways, roads, railways and air.
China’s first railway was built by the British in 1876 in Shanghai and first Chinese-built railway was constructed in 1881 in Tangshan in north China’s Hebei Province near Beijing. When New China was founded in 1949, there were less than 22,000km of lines but only half of that was serviceable.
According to the national railway network plan, high-speed railway will reach 19,000km by 2015. By 2020, the total railway mileage will top 120,000km.
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