On January 9, the mechanics of Zhengzhou East EMU were inspecting and preparing the EMU trains that were about to be launched on the Jizheng high-speed railway.
Photo by Wang Wei (Zhongjing Vision).
On the Nanchang Ganjiang Bridge of the Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway in Honggutan District, Nanchang City, trains are speeding back and forth.
Photo by Zhu Haipeng (Zhongjing Vision).
On January 10, the pile foundation construction of the Jinan Station North Station Building Project undertaken by China Railway Tenth Bureau was completed. Gao Zhan Photography (Zhongjing Vision).
Railway passenger traffic reached the best level in history, with more than 20 million passengers sent on peak days, and 36 passengers sent by the national railway throughout the year800 million passengers, both hitting a record high; Railway freight continued to grow, and the national railway completed 39 cargo dispatches throughout the year100 million tons, a record high; Railway construction has achieved fruitful results, and the national railway has completed a fixed asset investment of 764.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 75%, 3,637 kilometers of new lines were put into operation, including 2,776 kilometers of high-speed railways ......In 2023, in the face of the complex economic situation at home and abroad, China's railways withstood the pressure, overcame difficulties, and hit a number of record highs.
In 2023, focusing on serving and supporting Chinese-style modernization, the railway will work hard and move forward bravely, carry out a series of work to lay a foundation for long-term benefits, successfully complete various goals and tasks for the year, and achieve remarkable results in promoting the high-quality development of railways. Liu Zhenfang, Secretary of the Party Group and Chairman of China State Railway Group, said.
Passenger traffic is at an all-time high.
On December 27, 2023, the Huangshan-Nanchang section of the Hangzhou-Changzhou high-speed railway, which was built with the participation of China Railway Tunnel Bureau and other units, was completed and opened to traffic, marking the completion of the entire line of the Hangzhou-Changzhou high-speed railway. The Hangzhou-Changzhou high-speed railway is another high-speed rail corridor connecting Hangzhou to Nanchang after the Hangzhou-Nanchang section of the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway.
With the help of the increasingly perfect high-speed rail network, China Railway Group will optimize the train operation plan in 2023, increase the supply of passenger capacity during peak hours, and complete the passenger dispatch volume of the national railway for the whole year 36800 million passengers, with more than 20 million passengers sent on peak days and 10 million passengers per day, reaching a record high for the whole year and peak days. Chengdu Universiade, Hangzhou Asian Games and other transportation service guarantee tasks have also been successfully completed.
The increase in passenger traffic has been accompanied by an increase in the experience of riding the train, which is due to the continuous improvement of the service hardware and software level of the railway department. The railway department has launched new service measures such as the verification function of student ticket preferential qualifications, the implementation of children's preferential tickets according to age, the selection of shops, and the optimization of passenger information notifications, and the experience of passengers in purchasing tickets, entering the station, and taking trains has been improved.
In 2024, China Railway Group will deepen the structural reform of the transportation supply side, develop more passenger transport products that meet market demand, comprehensively improve service quality, and strive to meet the needs of the people for better travel. The relevant person in charge of the China Railway Group introduced.
It is understood that in accordance with the idea of innovating supply and driving demand, the railway department will carry out the pedigree design of passenger products and improve and optimize the supply system of passenger products. Through innovative passenger transport products, the potential passenger transport consumption will be fully stimulated. Consolidate and expand advantageous EMU products, increase the number of passenger trains from the evening to the sunset, increase the number of train stops at county stations, and vigorously develop the passenger flow of county stations. Promote the market-oriented operation of tourist trains, flexibly implement the market-oriented mechanism of high-speed rail fares, promote the growth of passenger flow, help develop the tourism economy, and promote the development of the silver economy.
Cargo volumes hit another record high.
In 2023, the annual freight volume of China's West-to-East Coal Transportation Corridor Wari Railway will reach 100.4 billion tons, breaking through the 100 million ton mark for the second consecutive year, marking that this heavy-haul railway is steadily entering the 100 million ton energy artery.
With the continuous increase in the freight volume of the Wari Railway and the encrypted operation of 10,000-ton trains, the energy transportation channels in the central and southern parts of Shanxi have been broadened, and the Daqin Railway in the north of Shanxi has formed a north-south complementarity, which is of great significance for enhancing the mobility of the road network, strengthening the economic cooperation between the three provinces of Shanxi, Henan and Shandong, and improving the guarantee of national energy security.
In addition to ensuring people's travel, as a means of transportation with large capacity and long distances, railways also play an important role in ensuring the supply of materials, meeting the needs of production and life, and smoothing the industrial chain.
In 2023, China Railway Group will make every effort to ensure the transportation of key materials such as thermal coal, grain, and fertilizers, increase the transportation of collection and distribution ports and the "road to rail", actively promote the development of molten iron multimodal transport and logistics general contracting, and pilot the launch of high-speed rail express whole train batch transportation, and continuously improve the quality of freight services. Adapt to the changes in the freight market situation, flexibly implement market-oriented freight rates, strengthen cross-regional marketing coordination, and do our best to increase the volume of transportation. The annual national railway completed the delivery of goods 39100 million tons, a record high;
While the overall volume has grown, the quality and balance of railway freight have also been significantly improved. In terms of making up for shortcomings, we will open public welfare "slow trains" and special trains for agricultural products to transport passengers in poverty alleviation areas2100 million passengers, 7700 million tons. In terms of promoting foreign trade, the China-Europe Express will run 1 in 202370,000 trains and 1.9 million TEUs sent, a year-on-year increase of %; The new western land-sea corridor trains sent 860,000 TEUs throughout the year, a year-on-year increase of 14%.
In 2024, China Railway Group will accelerate the transformation of railway freight to modern logistics. According to the relevant person in charge of the freight department of China Railway Group, the railway will solidly promote the construction of a modern logistics organization system, establish an operation mechanism of the logistics center, and realize the unified utilization of logistics resources, unified business management and unified market development. Promote the transformation and upgrading of freight stations to logistics services and business development, pilot logistics financial services and multimodal transport "one single system" transportation, and accelerate the construction of a modern logistics system with railways as the backbone.
At the same time, China Railway Group will thoroughly implement the decision-making and deployment on effectively reducing the logistics cost of the whole society, actively carry out the strategic cooperation of "total to general", strengthen the organization of key sources of goods in the collection and distribution port, and formulate the whole logistics solution of "one enterprise and one policy" to effectively reduce the cost of social logistics. Expand the scope of express trains, and build brands such as high-speed rail express, multi-link express, and rail-sea express. Enhance the timeliness of railway logistics, and build a national 1-day, 2-day, and 3-day fast cargo flow circle. Accelerate the construction of special railway lines, and give full play to the role of special lines in collection and distribution.
Major projects are progressing in an orderly manner.
On December 28, 2023, the tunnel section of the Jingtang Intercity Railway participated in the construction by the 14th Bureau of China Railway, with an excavation diameter of 13The successful launch of the 3-meter domestic super-large diameter slurry balance shield machine "Jingtong" marks the official entry of the Jingtang Intercity Railway Tide Reduction River Tunnel Project into the shield tunneling stage, laying a solid foundation for achieving the goal of opening and operating by the end of 2025.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Major Project Office, the Jingtang Intercity Railway, as a rapid transportation corridor from Beijing to Tangshan, will effectively improve the transportation service level of the Beijing Tongzhou-Tangshan intercity corridor after its opening, and at the same time, it will also form a rail transit network in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region together with the surrounding rapid passenger transport network, and accelerate the construction of "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei on the track".
In 2023, as an important measure to improve the railway network and expand investment to stabilize the economy, various railway constructions will be implemented as soon as possible.
In terms of total volume, the national railway completed 764.5 billion yuan in fixed asset investment throughout the year, a year-on-year increase of 75%；3,637 kilometers of new lines were put into operation, including 2,776 kilometers of high-speed railways, and the annual railway construction task was successfully completed. By the end of 2023, the operating mileage of railways in the country will reach 1590,000 kilometers, including 4 high-speed rail50,000 km.
From the perspective of the completion of key projects, we will focus on "laying the foundation, benefiting the long-term, making up for shortcomings, and adjusting the structure", and implement 24 networking, network supplementation, and strong chain projects; 34 projects, including the Lijiang-Shangri-La railway and the Guiyang-Nanning high-speed railway, have been completed and put into operation, and 102 passenger stations, including Guangzhou Baiyun Station and Nanchang East Railway Station, have been put into operation with high quality. 112 projects under construction, including the Chongqing-Wanzhou high-speed railway and the Chengdu-Chongqing middle high-speed railway, are progressing in an orderly manner; Nine large and medium-sized infrastructure projects, including the Weifang-Suqian high-speed railway, the Shaoyang-Yongzhou high-speed railway, and the Huangkei-Baise railway, started construction; 92 special railway lines and 10 logistics bases have been built.
From the perspective of regional focus, in 2023, 407.6 billion yuan of railway infrastructure investment will be completed in the border areas of the old and young and poverty alleviation areas, and 22 counties will end the history of no railways.
The smooth implementation of these projects has played an important role in stimulating economic growth, serving the coordinated regional development strategy, and consolidating the foundation for the joint construction of the "Belt and Road".
In 2024, China Railway Group will promote high-quality railway planning and construction, accelerate the construction of a modern railway infrastructure system, and ensure the full completion of national railway investment tasks. The relevant person in charge of the China Railway Group said.
On the one hand, scientifically coordinate construction resources and promote the implementation of key projects. Focusing on the railway projects among the 102 major projects identified in the 14th Five-Year Plan, we will increase the implementation of national strategic corridor projects such as the border railway from Xinjiang to Tibet and the border railway, promote the construction of key projects such as the coastal high-speed railway along the Yangtze River and the new land-sea corridor in the west, and complete and put into operation high-quality projects such as the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou high-speed railway, Hangzhou-Yiwu-Wenzhou high-speed railway, etc., to ensure the completion of annual investment and production tasks and physical workload.
On the other hand, efforts should be made to improve the overall function of the road network. We will do a good job in networking, supplementing the network and strengthening the chain project, focus on the implementation of a number of "short, flat and fast" projects, vigorously promote the construction of logistics infrastructure, accelerate the implementation of the improvement of the port collection and distribution system and the supporting projects of point and line capacity, and open up the main trunk line capacity blocking points and multimodal transport breakpoints. Promote the interconnection of transportation infrastructure, optimize and improve the layout, structure and function of hubs, promote the "integration of four networks", and serve the construction of a high-quality national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network. (Economic ** reporter Qi Hui).