A new railway operating plan has increased the country's passenger and freight train capacity, according to China Railway Corp. The new operating plan will be effective on January 10.
35 set of EMU trains will run on the Hangzhou-Taizhou high-speed rail line, and the opening of the Nanjing-Shengzhou-Xinchang high-speed rail will connect cities along the line to provincial capitals and municipalities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Hefei, and Fuzhou.
24 set of EMU trains will serve the Anqing-Kowloon section of the Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed rail.
A new high-speed rail route will link Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou to Nanchang, reducing the travel time from Nanjing to Nanchang by 43 minutes.
New high-speed train services will be in operation from the Yangtze River Delta to the Ganzhou-Shenzhen section of Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed rail. Xuzhou East Station will send off its first high-speed train to Shenzhen Station.
In the meantime, Nanjing Railway Station will send off an EMU train to Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Huai’an, Yancheng and Nantong.
