China will increase the number of passenger-trains to 571

Almaty. January 12. Silkroadnews - China will increase the number of passenger train services by 571 this year, including 563 high-speed services, according to the latest adjustment to the national railways plan, China.org.cn informs.
According to the data released by China Railway Corp on Sunday, 6,284 passenger train services now run every day nationwide, with more than 60 percent of them high-speed.
The latest adjustment will further increase the capacity of high-speed links between Beijing and Shenyang in Liaoning province, Beijing and Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, and Guiyang in Guizhou province and Shenzhen, among others.
Capacity pressure on regular services will also be relieved by additional express trains, the report added, such as between Shanghai and Shaoguan in Guangdong province, Shenzhen and Luoyang in Henan province, Lanzhou in Gansu province and Hefei in Anhui province.
However, He Huawu, chief engineer for China Railway Corp, dismissed concerns about capacity.
"There is still enough space to improve," he said. "In the near future, the passenger flow will be split by new railway lines; for example, the Beijing-Kowloon line will ease some of the pressure on the Beijing-Guangzhou and Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railways."
In addition, the Beijing-Shanghai line was designed for speeds of up to 350 kilometers an hour, but now the operating speed is only 250 to 300 km/h.