Intercity railway cuts travel time between Beijing, Xiong’an
By Ding Yiting, Zhang Zhifeng (People s Daily) 13:22, December 31, 2020 The 91-km intercity railway connecting Beijing and Xiong’an New Area in north China’s Hebei province opened to traffic on Dec. 27 after almost three years of construction. At 10:18 a.m. on that day, the C2702 Fuxing bullet train left the newly-built Xiong’an Railway Station for the Beijing West Railway Station.
Photo taken on Dec. 27 shows the Xiong’an Railway Station in Xiong’an New Area, north China’s Hebei province. (People’s Daily Online/Weng Qiyu) With a designed top speed of 350 km per hour, the railway has cut the travel time between the two railway stations to about 50 minutes. It also allows travelers to get to Xiong’an New Area from the Beijing Daxing International Airport in about 19 minutes.
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2020-12-28 10:41 By: Xinhua The Beijing-Xiong an intercity railway opened to traffic on Sunday, connecting the Chinese capital with the Xiong an New Area, the country s city of the future. Travel time from Beijing West Railway Station to the Xiong an New Area was cut from one and a half hours to about 50 minutes. It takes only 19 minutes to travel from Beijing Daxing International Airport to Xiong an. Xiong an will by 2035 be developed into a high-level modern city that is green, intelligent and livable, with relatively strong competitiveness and harmonious human-environment interaction.
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Intercity rail links Beijing, Xiong an By ZHANG YU and WANG LINYAN in Xiong an, Hebei | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-12-28 07:15 Share CLOSE Railway employees and passengers celebrate the launch of the Beijing-Xiong an Intercity Railway at Beijing West Railway Station on Sunday. ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY
Pang Qinggang, from Xiong an New Area in Hebei province, was excited to take the maiden trip on an intercity high-speed railway on Sunday morning to Beijing, in order to experience the unprecedented convenience offered by the new service.
Pang bought a ticket for Train C2702 shortly after its booking service opened on Saturday.
His train was the first to run on the intercity rail line from Xiong an Railway Station to Beijing West Railway Station.