- On January 4, the China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. work conference was held in Beijing. It summarized the railway work in 2020 and the achievements of railway development during the 13th Five-Year Plan, and deployed key railway tasks in 2021. According to the figures released at the meeting, in 2020, the national railway will complete a total operating income of 1,134.4 billion yuan, complete passenger shipments of 2.16 billion people, and complete cargo shipments of 3.58 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 4.1%.
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The national railways completed an investment of 781.9 billion yuan in fixed assets, 4,933 kilometers of new lines were put into operation, and 20 new projects were started.
The entire series of EMUs of Fuxing with a speed of 160-350 kilometers per hour were put into use, and the Shanghai-Sutong Yangtze River Highway and Railway Bridge, Wufengshan Yangtze River Highway and Railway Bridge, and Pingtan Strait Highway and Railway Bridge, which broke the world record for railway bridge construction, were successively built. The level has entered the world’s advanced ranks, including high speed, plateau, alpine, heavy load, etc.
During the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, the national railway operating mileage increased from 121,000 kilometers to 146,300 kilometers, an increase of 20.9%, of which high-speed rail increased from 19,800 kilometers to 37,900 kilometers, an increase of 91.4%, and the double-track rate increased from 53.5% to 59.5% , The electrification rate increased from 61.8% to 72.8%, the “four vertical and four horizontal” high-speed rail network was completed ahead of schedule, and the “eight vertical and eight horizontal” high-speed rail network was densely formed.
In the same period, the national railway completed 15.78 billion tons of freight, an increase of 1.7% compared to the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, and completed passenger shipments of 14.9 billion people, of which 9 billion EMUs were dispatched, an increase of 41% respectively compared to the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period. , 152%.
In 2021, the main goals of railway work are: railway safety remains sustained and stable; the national railway has completed the delivery of 3.112 billion passengers and 3.7 billion tons of cargo; solidly promoted the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and other national key projects, and fully completed the railway investment task and put it into operation The new line is about 3700 kilometers.
According to statistics, as of December 2020, the number one high-speed rail (200 kilometers per hour and above) operating mileage in all provinces, municipalities and municipalities in the country has become Anhui Province, reaching 2,297 kilometers, and achieving “city-to-city connectivity” in 16 provincial cities. High-speed rail”, 28 counties high-speed rail accessible.
Guangdong Province ranked second with 2,156 kilometers, followed by Liaoning Province, 2089 kilometers, Jiangsu Province, 2031 kilometers, and Shandong Province in 2005 kilometers.
At present, among the 34 provincial administrative regions in China, only the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region have not yet opened high-speed rail.