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China Railway

(中国铁路)

China Railway

中国铁路

The latest news, analysis and opinion on China Railway. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.

Chairman / President

Lu Dongfu

CEO / Managing Director

Zhang Zongyan

CFO / Finance Director

Shao Mingjun

Industry

Transport & Logistics

Website

china-railway.com.cn

Headquarters Address

No. 69 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Stock Code

SHA: 601390

Year Founded

2013

China’s railway authorities gave the public its first glimpse of a superfast maglev train this week in Beijing. The vehicle, which is currently undergoing testing, could cut travel times in half, according to experts. Photo: Handout

Mainland China

Beijing to Shanghai in 2½ hours: the maglev marvel redefining high-speed rail

Public debut of 600km/h (373mph) superfast train will slash journey times as China builds out its high-speed rail network.

11 Jul 2025 - 7:35PMvideocam

Hong Kong politics

My Take | Building railways as ‘one country, one system’ may save Hong Kong a lot of money

10 Jul 2025 - 8:43PM

China trade

Brazil and China to study South American transcontinental railway project

9 Jul 2025 - 6:05AMvideocam

Belt and Road Initiative

China to speed up bullet-train connectivity with neighbours

High-speed railways will be a cornerstone of China’s Belt and Road, creating key transport arteries to set international railway standards.

8 Jul 2025 - 8:08PM

China’s completed overseas rail projects include the China-Laos railway (pictured). Photo: Xinhua

Aviation

China’s emergency power bank ban catches domestic fliers off guard

Passengers told to give up recalled or uncertified devices at airports following a series of incidents involving lithium battery products.

2 Jul 2025 - 6:40PM

Science

China’s mega bridges: build smarter, build higher, build where others won’t dare

Chinese engineering smashes world records while creating some of the world’s longest and most impressive bridges.

26 May 2025 - 12:00PMvideocam

China travel

‘More convenient’: why China’s travellers are ditching planes for bullet trains

More passengers on busy Beijing-Shanghai route are choosing high-speed rail, which offers flexibility, comfort and stable internet access.

26 May 2025 - 9:19AMvideocam

Chinese travellers are increasing choosing to commute between Beijing and Shanghai by high-speed rail rather than plane, as travel times on train services continue to fall. Photo: Elson Li

China manufacturing

China greenlights mega-canal linking Jiangxi’s resources to Zhejiang’s wealth

Beijing’s drive to build more artificial waterways essential to integrate inland economies with richer coastal regions, analysts say.

24 May 2025 - 10:00AM

Thailand

Thai tycoon wanted over deadly Bangkok tower collapse surrenders to police

Premchai Karnasuta among 17 people charged with the felony of professional negligence causing death.

16 May 2025 - 1:17PMvideocam

Asia travel

4 rail journeys in modern-day China; a true 21st-century experience

Chinese railways may have developed at an extraordinary pace since the 1980s, but some journeys have more to offer the curious traveller than others

12 May 2025 - 2:38PM

Young train passengers travel through Sichuan province in 2021. Photo: Xinhua

Belt and Road Initiative

China’s rail ambitions receive another boost as Mongolia approves new line

China is also moving forward with cross-border rail projects in Central Asia and Southeast Asia.

8 Apr 2025 - 6:30AMvideocam

Mongolia projects that the new cross-border rail link with China will boost the country’s coal exports by millions of tons per year. Photo: Twitter

Two Sessions 2025

‘Two sessions’ 2025: how can China get its private sector back on track?

China will need stronger action to ensure a level playing field – as the struggles of its first privately owned high-speed railways show.

7 Mar 2025 - 2:17PMvideocam

China-EU relations

Turkish railway, with Chinese upgrades, could bypass Russia on route to Europe

Improvements to Turkey’s railway network – which a Turkish official says China could provide – would create a new, quicker path for Europe-bound freight.

14 Jan 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

China technology

China unveils the future of high-speed rail with a next-gen prototype

The CR450 is expected to become the fastest commercial vehicle of its kind and has been several years in the making.

29 Dec 2024 - 10:00PMvideocam

Further tests are in store for the CR450. Photo: Xinhua

China's economic recovery

State Council guideline encourages private investment in China’s railways

Cabinet calls for transparent pricing, the elimination of regional barriers, and equal treatment of all businesses to improve logistics sector.

24 Dec 2024 - 4:30PM

A bullet train leaves Nanjing South railway station in Jiangsu province in August. Photo: AFP

Belt and Road Initiative

How a new railway will extend China’s reach into Central Asia

The 523km line linking China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan could eventually be extended to the Middle East, South Asia and Europe.

6 Dec 2024 - 8:00PMvideocam

Video | How China built the world’s longest high-speed railway

A look at how China took only two decades to develop the world’s longest high-speed railway.

14 Oct 2024 - 10:23AMvideocam

Video | How China built the world’s longest high-speed railway

12 Oct 2024 - 11:01AM

'Infrastructure monster': how China built the world’s longest high-speed railway

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China's economic recovery

Explainer | Is it full steam ahead for China’s high-speed rail network?

China’s railway network transported 887 million passengers over the two month summer season in July and August.

8 Sep 2024 - 5:00PM

China's economic recovery

China’s railways bring in gravy train, recording profits and lower debt ratios

China’s state-owned railway operator has bucked economic trends by registering profits and lower debt ratios for the first six months of 2024.

3 Sep 2024 - 9:17AMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

Security ministry says Chinese jailed for giving railway data to foreigners

Ministry of State Security says Chinese vendor enticed by lucrative contract to gather data later identified as ‘intelligence information’.

2 Sep 2024 - 7:01PMvideocam

China’s Ministry of State Security says it has identified and jailed citizens for collecting data from China’s railways, which the ministry deems “intelligence information”, for a foreign company. Photo: AFP

Asia travel

Hong Kong-Chiang Mai trip shows benefits of Belt and Road Initiative

Instead of flying from Hong Kong to Chiang Mai, the Post sets out to test infrastructure in Southeast Asia built under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. All goes well until we slip up and resort to van and bus.

17 Jun 2024 - 12:30PM

A Chinese high-speed train waits at Kunming South Railway Station. Photo: Kristin Odebjer

Hong Kong transport

Explainer | Pros and cons of high-speed sleeper train from Hong Kong to Beijing and Shanghai

New overnight trains with sleeper carriages to take 12½ hours to Beijing and 11 hours to Shanghai.

5 Jun 2024 - 1:24PM

Xinjiang

China to boost Xinjiang, Tibet rail links with eye on supply chains and energy

Senior rail planner says Beijing aims to fill in the ‘blanks’ in railway networks to implement ‘major national strategies’ and improve connectivity between far western regions and the rest of China.

3 Jun 2024 - 5:00PM

China-EU relations

Finnish developers push for Chinese-built tunnel to Estonia despite doubts

Project linking Helsinki and Tallinn has been plagued by controversy, but sponsor is undeterred, saying funding is ‘not Chinese, it’s international’.

17 Mar 2024 - 1:00PMvideocam

A plan to link Finland’s Helsinki, shown here, with Estonian capital city Tallinn has raised alarms in Baltic intelligence circles. Photo: Shutterstock

Science

China puts trust in AI to maintain largest high-speed rail network on Earth

The railway system is in better condition than when it was first built, according to peer-reviewed paper.

12 Mar 2024 - 6:12PMvideocam

China is using artificial intelligence to monitor and maintain the fastest high-speed rail in the world, with a network longer than the equator. Photo: Xinhua

Hong Kong economy

Agency lures 2 new infrastructure firms to Hong Kong, 6 others expand presence

InvestHK head of business and professional services Herman Tse Yu-man says more foreign investments are expected in the coming year.

5 Mar 2024 - 10:34PM

China-Africa relations

Green energy powers China’s investment boom in Africa after pandemic

Race for minerals vital for renewable energy drives rise in Chinese investments and construction deals in Africa.

16 Feb 2024 - 9:00AMvideocam

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