Infrastructure
417 Km High-Speed Railway Linking Eastern And Central China Goes Live
A high speed train in China (@ChinaRailways)
While the section between Puyang in Henan province and Zhengzhou opened commercially in June 2022, the last section of the railway linking Jinan and Puyang officially opened on Friday, marking the full operation of the entire Jinan-Zhengzhou High-Speed Railway.
It also links Beijing-Shanghai HSR and Beijing-Guangzhou HSR, and hence, is expected to be an important connection line of the national railway network.
China’s HSR network is already the world’s largest. By 2022, the country had 42,000 km of operational high-speed railway, ranking first in the world.
The first route, connecting Beijing and Tianjin, went online in 2008. In September 2023, the country inaugurated its first cross-sea high-speed rail line. The 277-km Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou high-speed railway connects cities including Fuzhou and Xiamen along the west coast of the Taiwan Straits.
