China will use a new national railway schedule from April 8, expanding international freight railway services and intermodal transport involving sea-rail freight trains. These will better serve the international supply chain and improve high-quality opening-up, national railway operator China State Railway Group.
The new schedule will better cater to passengers' travel needs, according to 12306.cn, the official website of the railway ticket booking system.
Adjustments to the railway schedule are a routine operation, usually happening once a quarter. The group adjusted schedules four times last year-in January, April, June and October.
More international freight railway services and intermodal transport involving sea-rail freight trains will be arranged in the new schedule to better serve the international supply chain and improve high-quality opening-up.
There will be four extra daily freight services on the China-Laos Railway. Additionally, more freight services will be operated between China and Europe, and the number of services along the new western land-sea corridor will be increased.
The group said the new schedule will enhance high-speed railway connectivity in East and Central China, offering passengers more choices. A new high-speed railway line linking Huanggang and Huangmei in Central China's Hubei province will open soon, reducing travel times between Hubei and East China's Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces and Shanghai.
More services to transport coal for power generation will be organized, and more freight train services carrying coal will be arranged on the new railway line linking Heshun in Shanxi province, a key producer, with Xingtai, Hebei province, to transport coal to East China.
More freight train services were put on to transport goods that are usually carried by road, including agricultural items.
The freight rail network also made advances in international trade from January to March.
