Beijing Railway Bureau has made remarkable achievement in the past five years, with the number of rail journeys reaching 1.211 billion from 2013 to this year.

Specifically, statistics showed that the number of rail journeys has jumped from 240 million in 2013 to 290 million in 2016, while a total of 149 million journeys were made in the first half of this year.

Currently Beijing runs 615.5 pairs of trains every day as a departure and terminal station, an increase of 23.8 percent over that of 2013. Among them, 350 pairs are high-speed rail lines, 265.5 pairs are trains running at normal speed.

As traffic has been the priority in the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Beijing Railway Bureau has been working with authorities in the region to improve the operation of trains region-wide, bringing forth a rail network featuring high-speed railways, intercity railways and city railways.

The rail network has benefited 1.2 billion people and over 60,000 enterprises and logistics units over the past five years.

Meanwhile, Beijing has also made good performance in railway construction. It has completed the construction of 12 major projects. For instance, a total of 200 million journeys have been made on the Beijing-Tianjin inter-city railway since its opening.

Additionally, two pairs of bullet trains operating from Beijing through Xiongan New Area to Baoding of Hebei Province officially opened early in July, making it possible to travel between Beijing and Xiongan New Area in one day.

At the same time, the construction of key projects is well under way. As of May this year, the 174-kilometer Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway has had 130.4 kilometers under construction. The Beijing-Bazhou Railway north of Beijing’s new airport is scheduled to open in September of 2019.

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