Chinese media by Xinhua News Agency/China Daily – China Railway Company Limited revealed that the high-speed rail linking China’s Beijing with Wuhan capital city of Hubei Province Starting to run service at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour on Monday (June 20)
The company expects the total transport volume of the railway to increase by 7% after the speed increase from 310 km/h to 350 km/h. It also reduced the travel time between Beijing and Wuhan to at least 3 hours and 48 minutes.
Wuhan is considered to be one of China’s largest railway, sea and road transport hubs. Wuhan is located about 1,100 kilometers from Beijing.
Beijing-Wuhan high-speed rail It is part of the Beijing-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway in Guangdong Province, which opened in 2012 and is designed to handle trains with speeds of 300 km/h and 350 km/h.
Beijing-Wuhan high-speed rail Connected to several high-speed rail lines in the country. This speed increase is a key driving force in improving the efficiency of the high-speed rail network. and promote economic and social development along the way
For example, the speed upgrading of the Beijing-Wuhan railway line and the opening of high-speed rail lines in Chongqing, Southwest China and Hubei Province, which is in central China. Make travel between Beijing and Chongqing. decreased by more than 4 hours
Same day (20 June) Fuxing train The most modern version of China designed to accelerate speeds up to 350 kilometers per hour It started traveling from Chongqing to Beijing. The journey time is 6 hours and 46 minutes. The journey on this route marks the opening of the high-speed rail line in the Zhengzhou-Chongqing section. official It connects Zhengzhou in Henan Province with Chongqing, 1,068 km away, by a railway line with a speed of 350 km/h.
China currently has high-speed railways operating at 350 kilometers per hour for a total distance of nearly 3,200 kilometers on several routes, such as the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway. Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway and the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail
China also began implementing a new railway action plan from Monday, with passenger and cargo rail traffic improving steadily following the expansion of high-speed rail networks in the central region. and the opening of more stations and routes in the country
