Summer peak to set a rail record
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CHINA’S summer transport peak period began on Saturday and runs until August 31, with a record number of passenger trips expected to be made by train this year.
A total of 598 million passenger trips are expected to be made by train during the 62-day period, some 49.7 million more than in the same period last year, according to China Railway Corporation.
Railway authorities have put a new transport plan into operation, adding more trains at transport hubs and raising average passenger capacity.
Under the new plan, Beijing and the Yangtze River Delta cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou will operate high-speed trains to the northwestern city of Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province, during the summer peak.
The railway network in the Yangtze River Delta alone is estimated to have 116 million passenger trips during the period, an increase of 9.2 percent from the same period last year.
High-speed trains have become a popular choice for tourists.
“My children have begun their summer holidays. We will make a visit to Nanjing,” said a woman surnamed Lu at the south railway station in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province. It was the first time Lu had been on a high-speed train.
In southwest China’s Yunnan Province, high-speed trains are being used this summer for the first time.
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