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Beijing South Railway Station
Beijingnan (Beijing South) railway station () is a large railway station (mainly serving high speed trains) in Fengtai District, Beijing, about south of central Beijing, between the 2nd and 3rd ring roads. The station in its present form opened on 1 August 2008 and replaced the old Beijing South station, originally known as Majiapu railway station and later renamed Yongdingmen railway station, which stood 500 metres away. The old station was in use from 1897 to 2006. The new Beijing South railway station is the city's largest station, and is one of the largest in Asia. It joins the main Beijing railway station and the Beijing West railway station as one of three main passenger rail hubs in the Chinese capital."South station on track to impress" ''People's Daily Online' ...
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Fengtai District
Fengtai District () is a district of the municipality of Beijing. It lies mostly to the southwest of the city center, extending into the city's southwestern suburbs beyond the 6th Ring Road, Sixth Ring Road, but also to the south and, to a smaller extent, the southeast, where it has borders with Chaoyang District, Beijing, Chaoyang District and Dongcheng District, Beijing, Dongcheng District. History The Western Han dynasty Prince Liu Jian and his wife were buried in Dabaotai village in southwestern Fengtai over 2,000 years ago. The tombs were discovered in 1974 and are now open to visitors at the Dabaotai Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum on Fengbo Road. In Qing Dynasty times, Fengtai was where the Imperial Manchu Army had its camps, trained, and held parades on festive occasions. It is in area, making it the third-largest precinct in the greater urban part of Beijing, and is home to 790,000 inhabitants. It is divided into 14 subdistricts of the city proper of Beijing, 2 towns, ...
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Resident Identity Card
The Resident Identity Card () is an official identity document for personal identification in the People's Republic of China. According to the second chapter, tenth clause of the ''Resident Identity Card Law'', residents are required to apply for resident identity cards from the local Public Security Bureau, sub-bureaus or local executive police stations. History Prior to 1984, citizens within the People's Republic of China were not required to obtain or carry identification in public. On April 6, 1984, the State Council of the People's Republic of China passed the ''Identity Card Provisional Bill'' (中华人民共和国居民身份证试行条例), commencing the process of gradual introduction of personal identification, in the footsteps of many developed countries at the time. The first generation identification cards were single paged cards made of polyester film. Between 1984 and 1991, trials for the new identity card system took place in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin. ...
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Top Class Station
Top Class station is an administrative level given to stations by the Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China. Qualification Process According to the PRC Regulations on Railway Technical Management, freight, marshalling or passenger rail stations would qualify as the top class if any of the following condition is true: *A passenger station with daily passenger throughput of 60,000 and freight throughput of 20,000 *A freight station with daily passenger throughput of 750 or more trains. *A marshalling yard with daily throughput of 6,500 transporting and working trains In addition, for a station that has multiple roles, it would qualify as the top class if two of the following condition are true: *daily passenger throughput of 20,000 and freight throughput of 2,500 *daily freight throughput of 400. *daily throughput of 4,500 transporting and working trains marshalling train *waiver for stations located at the capital, one of the direct-controlled municipalities A ...
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Beijing–Shanghai Railway
The Beijing–Shanghai railway or Jinghu railway () is a railway line between Beijing and Shanghai. The line has a total length of and connects the municipalities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, as well as the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu. It is commonly referred to as the Jinghu railway, taking on the abbreviated names of the two terminal cities. In Chinese, ''Jing'' means "capital" and refers to Beijing, and ''Hu'' is the abbreviated name for Shanghai. History The Beijing–Shanghai railway is composed of three sections. These three sections are some of the earliest railways in China, built before 1910 during the Qing dynasty. The first section is from Beijing to Tianjin, constructed as part of the Imperial Railways of Northern China between 1897 and 1900. The second section is from Tianjin to Pukoua suburb of Nanjingand used to be called the Tianjin–Pukou railway. The third section is from Nanjing to Shanghai, built between 1905 and 1908. This sec ...
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Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway
The Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway () is a Chinese high-speed railway that runs 117 km line (72.7 statute miles) between Beijing and Tianjin. Designed for passenger traffic only, the Chinese government built the line to accommodate trains traveling at a maximum speed of , and currently carries CRH high-speed trains running speeds up to since August 2018. When the line opened on August 1, 2008, it set the record for the fastest conventional train service in the world by top speed, and reduced travel time between the two largest cities in northern China from 70 to 30 minutes. A second phase of construction extended this line from Tianjin to Yujiapu railway station in the Binhai New Area was opened on September 20, 2015. The line is projected to approach operating capacity in the first half of 2016. Anticipating this, a second parallel line, the Beijing–Binhai intercity railway, commenced construction on December 29, 2015. It will run from Beijing Sub-Center railway ...
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Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway
The Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway (or Jinghu high-speed railway, from its name in Mandarin) is a high-speed railway that connects two major economic zones in the People's Republic of China: the Bohai Economic Rim and the Yangtze River Delta.Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Line, China
Railway-Technology.com, 25 September 2008.
Construction began on April 18, 2008, with the line opened to the public for commercial service on June 30, 2011. The long high-speed line is the world's longest high-speed line ever constructed in a single phase. The line is one of the busiest high speed railways in the world, transporting over 210 million passengers in 2019, more than the annual ridership of the entire

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China Railway Corporation
China State Railway Group Company, Ltd., doing business as China Railway (CR), is the national passenger and freight railroad corporation of the People's Republic of China. China Railway operates passenger and freight transport throughout China with 18 regional subsidiaries. By September 2022, the total assets of China Railway Group are CNY 9.06 trillion (USD 1.24 trillion). History Under the Chinese Corporate Law, China Railway Corporation was reorganized into China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. on June 18, 2019, instead of Industrial Enterprises Owned by the Whole People. This meant the Ministry of Finance would act as an investor on behalf of the state and the company would be led by a board and managed by board-chosen executives. Logo The China Railway logo was designed by Chen Yuchang () (1912–1969), officially adopted on 22 January 1950. The whole logo represents the front of a locomotive. The upper part of the logo represents the Chinese character 人 (people), ...
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Beijing Railway Bureau
China Railway Beijing Group, officially abbreviated as CR Beijing or CR-Beijing, formerly, Beijing Railway Administration is a subsidiaries company under the jurisdiction of the China Railway (formerly the Ministry of Railway). It supervises the railway network within Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province. CR Beijing also operates and supervises the expansion of the Beijing Suburban Railway, the commuter rail service linking urban Beijing and surrounding suburbs. The railway administration was reorganized as a company in November 2017. High speed services on the Beijing-Tianjin intercity railway are also managed by CR Beijing. Hub stations * Beijing ** , , , , (U/C), * Tianjin ** , , , * Shijiazhuang ** , * Tangshan ** , Regional services S-train services * Beijing Suburban Railway ** , , , * Tianjin ** (S9) * Yangquan Yangquan ( ) is a prefecture-level city in the east of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei province to the east. Situated at ...
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Beijing Capital International Airport
Beijing Capital International Airport is one of two international airports serving Beijing, the other one being Beijing Daxing International Airport (PKX). It is located northeast of Beijing's city center, in an exclave of Chaoyang District and the surroundings of that exclave in suburban Shunyi District. The airport is owned and operated by the Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited, a state-controlled company. The airport's IATA Airport code, PEK, is based on the city's former romanized name, Peking. Beijing Capital has rapidly ascended in rankings of the world's busiest airports in the past decade. It had become the busiest airport in Asia in terms of passenger traffic and total traffic movements by 2009. It was the world's second busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic between 2010 and 2021. The airport registered 557,167 aircraft movements (takeoffs and landings), ranking 6th in the world in 2012. In terms of cargo traffic, Beijing airport has a ...
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Beijing Airport Bus
The Beijing Capital Airport Shuttle Bus (北京首都机场巴士) is an express public bus service mainly between the Beijing Capital International Airport (Capital Airport) and points within the city of Beijing and the surrounding region. As of November 2019, there were 18 airport shuttle bus routes from the Capital Airport and the city proper, and six routes to Tianjin and Hebei Province.Beijing Capital International Airport, "Airport Shuttle"
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In addition, the Beijing Airport Shuttle Bus also runs one route from in the city to the

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Beijing Bus
Public bus service in Beijing is the among the most extensive, widely used and affordable form of public transportation in urban and suburban districts of the city. In 2015, the entire network consisted of 876 routes with a fleet of 24,347 buses and trolleybuses carried 3.98 billion passengers annually. Trolleybuses run on over 31 routes including 6, 38, 42, 65, 101-112, 114-118, 124, 128, 301, BRT 1-3. Many of these trolleybus routes are located inside the Third Ring Road but some, such as 301 and BRT 1-3, do extend as far out as the Fifth Ring Road. Since 2013, In an effort to reduce urban air pollution, Beijing has been converting regular bus routes to trolleybus routes by installing overhead power lines on several corridors. Public bus service in the city began in 1921. Today there are two operators. The city's primary public bus operator, the state-owned Beijing Public Transport Holdings, Ltd. operates most routes and the Beijing Xianglong Bus Co., Ltd., an independent ope ...
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Line 14, Beijing Subway
Line 14 of the Beijing Subway () is a rapid transit rail line in the south and east of Beijing. The line is operated by the Beijing MTR Corporation Limited. It runs across the southern and eastern fringes of urban Beijing from west of the Yongding River in the southwest corner of the city to in the northeast corner. Line 14 will be in length and have 36 stations (33 in operation). Description West section: The stations from to , on the southwest corner of the Line 10 loop, opened on May 5, 2013. The infill Qilizhuang station opened on February 15, 2014. Middle section (also known as the Lize section): The stations in between and Beijing South railway station opened on December 31, 2021. East section: The east section opened in two phases. Stations from to opened on December 28, 2014; and the stations from to Beijing South railway station opened on December 26, 2015. Infills Chaoyang Park station and Pingleyuan station opened on 31 December 2016 and 30 December 2017 ...
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