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.
by Xinhua writers Lyu Qiuping, Gao Bo and Cao Guochang
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Environment factored into building of new railway, designer says By LUO WANGSHU | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-14 09:28 Share CLOSE A D4665 high-speed train runs from Taiyuan, Shanxi province, to Zhengzhou, Henan province, on Dec 12, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
Environmental protection was taken into consideration during the building of a new high-speed railway line through the Taihang Mountains that aims to improve local livelihoods and boost tourism, according to the railway s designer.
The 432-kilometer line connecting Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, and Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, opened on Saturday, cutting the time needed to travel between the two cities by an hour to just two and a half hours. Bullet trains on the 13-station line tr