In Railway 12306**, by querying the timetable of some trains on the whole line of the Jizheng high-speed railway, you can see the information of the departure station, the end station, and the stop station of the relevant trains.
According to the query information, at 10:58 on December 8, the G4821 train will depart from Changqing Station, stop at Liaocheng West Station, and arrive at Zhengzhou East Station, taking 1 hour and 39 minutes;At the same time, G4826 will depart from Qingdao North Railway Station 3 times, stop at Weifang, Zibo and Jinan, and then go west along the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway, arriving at Zhengzhou East Railway Station at 15:57, taking 4 hours and 59 minutes;At 12:35 on the same day, G4827 will depart from Jinan Station, stop at Chiping South, Liaocheng West, Nanle, Puyang East, Neihuang, Huadu, Weihui South, Xinxiang East and other high-speed rail stations, and arrive at Zhengzhou East Station at 15:44, taking 3 hours and 9 minutes to ......
This information means that the opening of the entire line of the Jizheng high-speed railway has been "officially announced", and the long-awaited key channel for hundreds of millions of people in Shandong and Henan provinces will be truly opened.
Jinan and Zhengzhou are both large economic and population cities, and they are the core of Jinan metropolitan area and Zhengzhou metropolitan area respectively. In 2022, Jinan's GDP is 12,027500 million yuan, Zhengzhou is 12934700 million yuan, all of which are among the top 20 in the country. At the end of the same year, the permanent population of Jinan was 94150,000 people, Zhengzhou 128280,000 people. From the map, the straight-line distance from Jinan to Zhengzhou is only about 370 kilometers. Among the neighboring cities with a GDP of more than one trillion yuan and a population of tens of millions, Jinan and Zhengzhou are the only two cities that have not yet opened a direct high-speed railway.
Before the opening of the Jizheng high-speed railway, there were 22 one-way trains between the two cities (including 16 high-speed rail), 10 of which needed to bypass Xuzhou and 6 to Shijiazhuang. From Jinan to Zhengzhou, the journey takes as little as 3 hours and 12 minutes and as long as 4 hours and 36 minutes.
With the opening of the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway, the "non-turning" high-speed railway, the train between the two will no longer bypass Xuzhou, Jiangsu or Shijiazhuang, Hebei, and the high-speed rail running route will change from the word "V" to the word "one", the running mileage will be shortened, and the commuting time will be greatly shortened, and the formation of 15-hour high-speed rail traffic circle. Liaocheng and Puyang, which are located on the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed rail line, two prefecture-level cities that were not connected to high-speed rail more than a year ago, will be integrated into the one-hour traffic circle of Jinan and Zhengzhou respectively, and will develop in tandem with the provincial capital.
With the opening of the Jizheng high-speed railway, the rapid development of western Luxi and eastern Henan has been supported by transportation. For Jinan and Zhengzhou, which are accelerating the construction of strong provincial capitals, it means that the radiation and driving capacity of the region will be further enhanced, and it will be easier to attract and gather relevant resources and elements, and promote the metropolitan area to achieve deeper integrated development.