China’s high-speed rail carries record 10 billion passengers
China’s
high-speed railway had transported more than 10 billion passengers by the end
of the first quarter of 2019, a new world record, China Railway said on May 11.
By the
end of March, the total volume was “3.34 trillion passenger-kilometers,” China
Railway said in a statement released on its official WeChat.
China
had almost 30,000 kilometers of high-speed railway track in 2018, twice as long
as the rest of the world’s railways combined, the statement noted.
High-speed
rail is proving an increasingly popular option for travelers in China. Railway
authorities recorded more than 2 billion high-speed trips in 2018, an annual
increase of nearly 17 percent, or over three-fifths of all rail passengers.
China’s
volume of railway passenger transport, freight volume, transport density and
other major transport economic indicators consistently ranks first in the
world, China Railway said.
Since
China’s first Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway in 2008, China has been the
world No.1 in terms of operating mileage, the statement noted.
The
Fuxing bullet trains, which went into operation in 2017, have carried nearly
200 million passengers with an average passenger load of 75 percent, 1.3
percent higher than other high-speed trains, according to China Railway.
China
will see 850 Fuxing high-speed trains put into service by the end of this year.
Source:Global Times
An aerial photo taken on Feb .21,
2019 shows a bullet train leaving Taizhou train station for Nantong, east
China’s Jiangsu province. (Photo by Tang Dehong from People’s Daily Online)
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